Visual Methods for Social Justice in Education

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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. Contents List of Figures Chapter 1: Visual Methods for Social Justice in Education References Chapter 2: “Reimagining Education” in the Current Neoliberal Era: Creative Visual Methods for Social Change Disturbing Neoliberal Governmentality: Beyond “Urban Schools” as “Data Plantations” Inquiry Paradigms: from Positivism to Constructivism to a “Visual Turn” Within Critical, Participatory, Cooperative Research Paradigms Positivism/Post-positivism Interpretative/Constructivist Beyond Words: A “Visual Turn” Within Critical Theory and Participatory/Cooperative Paradigms “Other” Ways of Seeing Education: Beyond Words-Driven Qualitative Research References Chapter 3: Entanglement: Theory, Visual Methodology, and Intersectionality Entanglement of Theory and Visual Methodology Intersectionality: Storytelling and Counter-Visualities References Chapter 4: Photo-Elicitation to Amplify and Elevate the Voices of Research Participants A Brief History From Classic Photo-Elicitation to “Reflexive Photography” and “Auto-Driven Photo-Elicitation” Photo-Elicitation: Grounding the Voices of Participants from Minoritized Groups in Their Own Cultural Knowledge and Contexts Photo-Elicitation to Create “Visual Encounters” in Education: “Can the Subaltern Speak?” References Chapter 5: Participatory Visual Research for Community Empowerment and Social Change: Photovoice, Visual Diary, Photojournalism, and Fotonovela Empowerment, Ownership, and Imagination for Social Change Photo Diary, Video Diary, Photojournalism, Photovoice, and Fotonovela Participatory Visual Methods for Humanizing Research References Chapter 6: Visual Ethnography of Decolonization from “Salvage Ethnography” to the “Ethnographic Turn” Toward More Embodied and Multisensory Visual Ethnography for Cultural Transformation “Collaborative Seeing” with Hard-to-Reach Communities Cultural Probes to Decolonize Context and Culture References Chapter 7: Drawing as a Research Tool of Child Empowerment The New Paradigm of Childhood From Adult-Centric Methodologies to Child-Centered Methodologies: Drawing Cautions and Limitations References Chapter 8: Dismantling “Remain in Mexico” at the Crossroads: Intersectionality, Counter-Story, and Un Nuevo Mundo Art Exhibition But You Don’t Look Mexican (Latina & Jewish): Intersectionality Lens A Counter-Story of Migration: Un Nuevo Mundo References Chapter 9: Visual Research Ethics: Dilemmas, Judgment, and Ethics of Care Visual Ethics: Key Principles and Guidelines Key Issues in Visual Ethics A Situated Approach to Visual Research Ethics References Chapter 10: Conclusion Index