Book chapter
Through Their Eyes, in Their Words: Using Photo-Elicitation to Amplify Student Voice in Policy and School Improvement Research
Research Methods for Social Justice and Equity in Education, pp.151-161
Springer International Publishing
02/26/2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05900-2_13
Abstract
Although various measures of student success are often used as data points in scholarly and policy debates about how to improve schools, the policy and school-level changes that stem from these discussions are presumed to be taken on behalf of students without very much effort to meaningfully include students’ perspectives on the proposed changes. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the promise of photo-elicitation-based data collection to authentically leverage student voice in research on policy and school improvement in ways that promote equity and critical social justice. Photo-elicitation, in its simplest form, involves inviting research participants to take photographs of a space (e.g., a school) under a broad prompt (e.g., places where you like to have fun) (Harper, Visual Studies, 17, 13–26, 2002; Torre & Murphy, Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23, 2015). This chapter highlights methodological choices researchers must make in utilizing photo-elicitation and how these choices bear on the equity implications of this method.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Through Their Eyes, in Their Words: Using Photo-Elicitation to Amplify Student Voice in Policy and School Improvement Research
- Creators
- Jeff Walls - University of Louisiana at LafayetteSamantha E. Holquist - University of Minnesota
- Contributors
- Kamden K. Strunk (Editor)Leslie Ann Locke (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Research Methods for Social Justice and Equity in Education, pp.151-161
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-05900-2_13
- Number of pages
- 11
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/26/2019
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984701828202771
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