1st Edition

The Use of Drawings in Social Change Research Centering Participant Insights

194 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Use of Drawings in Social Change Research is a practice-oriented guide to draw-and-write and draw-and-talk methods in qualitative research. It offers a clear, structured account of how drawing, paired with participant explanation, can be used to generate and interpret visual–narrative data in research concerned with social change. Grounded in applied work, the book demonstrates how these... Read more

Introduction

Linda Theron, Diane Levine, Claudia Mitchell

Part 1: The Theory Explained

Chapter 1: How to generate draw-and-write/talk data

Linda Theron, Diane Levine, Claudia Mitchell

Chapter 2: Making meaning with draw-and-write/talk data

Diane Levine, Claudia Mitchell, Linda Theron

Chapter 3: Image, ethics and audience

Nesa Bandarchian Rashti, Miranda D’Amico, Myriam Denov, Bori Godley, Warren Linds, Claudia Mitchell

Part 2: The Theory Illustrated

Chapter 4: The art and craft of facilitating drawing in research with adolescents in Mali

Kattie Lussier

Chapter 5: Drawings as visual indicators of resilience in street-involved children and youth (SICY) in South Africa

Macalane Junel Malindi, Johnnie Hay

Chapter 6: Multisystemic factors associated with resilience to COVID-19 challenges among emerging adults in India

Narayanan Annalakshmi, Deepak kumar S, Vijayan Gayathry, Chellamuthu Kishor

Chapter 7: Drawing, talking and writing in the context of feminist art practice

Maria Adams, Vicki Harman, Erin Power, Talitha Brown, Jon Garland, Daniel McCarthy

Chapter 8: Drawing the future: Co-designing health services communication through visual thinking

Evonne Miller, Kate Letheren, Rebekah Russell-Bennett

Chapter 9: Drawing to deepen understandings of gender concepts: Teachers’ picture gender transformation in Sierra Leone

Lisa Starr, Jennifer Thompson, Grace Skahan, Claudia Mitchell

Part 3: The Theory Extended

Chapter 10: Artificial intelligence and the interpretation of draw-and-write data: Creative possibilities and epistemological limits

John Goodwin, Diane Levine, Morenike Oyenubi, Dov Stekel

Chapter 11: Comics as a catalyst: Innovative approaches to data engagement in research with Racially and Ethnically Marginalised (REM) communities

Fatmata Daramy, Osarenkhoe Ogbeide

Chapter 12: Leaving a mark: Conceptualising embodiment in art-making with refugee children and young people

Miranda D’Amico, Nesa Bandarchian Rashti, Shu-Hau Kang, Myriam Denov, Warren Linds, Claudia Mitchell

Biography

Linda Theron is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and affiliated with Optentia Research Unit at North-West University.

Diane Levine is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Leicester in the U.K., and affiliated with the Centre for Social Development in Africa at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Claudia Mitchell is Distinguished James McGill Professor at McGill University in Canada and an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.