Visual Methods for Social Justice in Education

ISBN-13: 9783031257445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Laura Azzarito

Opis

This book makes a case for the usefulness of visual research methods for advancing a social justice agenda in education.  The author aims to provide education researchers with a wide range of qualitative visual research tools to invoke different stories, voices, embodiments, and experiences of individuals from marginalized communities; to advance emancipatory research projects; to embrace interdisciplinary knowledge-building; and to counter-narrate Western forms of knowledge, cultures, and values for the reimagining of education for social change.  It draws attention to the importance of visual methods in today’s neoliberal landscape of education to speak back to mainstream research and practices, especially when research participants lack words to describe, express, and represent what it means to be impacted by oppression and marginalization.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Visual Research from a Social Justice Research Paradigm in the Neoliberal Era 

Chapter 2. Intersectionality, Counternarratives, and Counter-visualities 

Chapter 3. Photo-elicitation to Amplify and Elevate Research Participant Voices 

Chapter 4. Participatory Visual Research for Community Empowerment and Social Change: Photovoice, Photodiary, Photojournalism, and Photonovela

Chapter 5. Children as "Artists": Drawing to Express Social Justice 

Chapter 6. Visual Ethnography: Depicting Landscapes for Social Change 

Chapter 7. Visual Ethics: Dilemmas, Judgement, and Ethics of Care

Chapter 8. The Power of Arts-Based Inquiry & Exhibitions for Social Change 

Chapter 9. Conclusion 

O autorze

Laura Azzarito is Professor of Physical Culture and Education and Co-Director of the Visual Research Center for Education, Art, & Social Change (VRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Her scholarly work is situated at the intersection of socio-educational and critical theory and practice, and uses creative visual methodologies to explore youth embodiment with a focus on the intersectionality of gender/sex, social class, race, (dis)ability from constructivist, CRT, postcolonial, post-feminist, and trans theories. 

Blurb

This book makes a case for the usefulness of visual research methods for advancing a social justice agenda in education.  The author aims to provide education researchers with a wide range of qualitative visual research tools to invoke different stories, voices, embodiments, and experiences of individuals from marginalized communities; to advance emancipatory research projects; to embrace interdisciplinary knowledge-building; and to counter-narrate Western forms of knowledge, cultures, and values for the reimagining of education for social change.  It draws attention to the importance of visual methods in today’s neoliberal landscape of education to speak back to mainstream research and practices, especially when research participants lack words to describe, express, and represent what it means to be impacted by oppression and marginalization.

Laura Azzarito is Professor of Physical Culture and Education and Co-Director of the Visual Research Center for Education, Art, & Social Change (VRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Her scholarly work is situated at the intersection of socio-educational and critical theory and practice, and uses creative visual methodologies to explore youth embodiment with a focus on the intersectionality of gender/sex, social class, race, (dis)ability from constructivist, CRT, postcolonial, post-feminist, and trans theories.