1st Edition

Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People

Edited By Pat Thomson Copyright 2008
240 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Visual media offer powerful communication opportunities. Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People explores the methodological, ethical, representational and theoretical issues surrounding image-based research with children and young people. It provides well-argued and illustrated resources to guide novice and experienced researchers through the challenges and benefits of visual... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Teaching Children to Use Visual Research Methods  3. Gender and Being ‘Bad’: Inner-City Students’ Photographs  4. ‘Play in Focus’: Children Researching their own Spaces and Places for Play  5. Researching Children’s Narratives Creatively through Drawings  6. Visual Research with Young People to Explore Sex and the Media  7. Video Diaries  8. Looking through the Lens of a Camera in the Early Childhood Classroom  9. Visual Voice in Classrooms; Practical, Ethical & Methodological Issues  10. Visual Narrative and Diversity in our Classroom: Digital Readings of Policy  11. 'Voice' and Video: Seen, Heard and Listened to?  12. Dialogues with Artists: Getting to Grips with Children’s Self Portraits  13. Ethics & Visual Research  14. The Need for a New Ethics

Biography

Pat Thomson is Professor of Education and Director of Research in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK. She is a former school principal of disadvantaged schools in Australia.

'This is a timely, very important contribution to the growing fields of pupil participation and visual research with and on young people. It explores and extends an increasingly vibrant and significant field of enquiry in ways which engage our imagination and excite us to action. Theoretically sophisticated and accessibly written, it will quickly establish itself as a key text for professionals and academics alike.'

Professor Michael Fielding, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

'...filled with useful techniques for researchers in any discipline studying children.'

Eric Margolis, Arizona State University, USA, and President of the International Visual Sociology Association