63.074 - Participant Empowerment Through Photo Elicitation in Ethnographic Research: New Research and Approaches

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this panel is to present new approaches to photo elicitation in ethnographic education research. While understanding previous approaches to critical and post-critical research, this panel aims to work through successes and challenges in work that uses photo in method. These researchers use photographs as reflective data for participants and researchers to analyze and interpret. Each of us has used photo to stimulate deeper and more meaningful discussions with our participants, expanding the use of photo to new participants to broaden their perspectives, and providing powerful new narratives. In the continuing effort to fully represent our participants and uncover new understandings in ethnographic work, these researchers trouble accepted notions of division between data and interpretation, participant and researcher.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Karen L.B. Burgard, Texas A&M University - San Antonio

Papers

• Examining the Quality of Life for Young Adults With Intellectual Disability: Using Photo-Essays to Enhance the Voice of Individuals - Kharon Denise Grimmet, Purdue University

• Photo-Based Methods: An Opportunity for Cross-Cultural Research - Cassie Fay Quigley, Clemson University

• Photovoice as a Tool for Educating for Sustainability in the Anthropocene - Deborah J. Tippins, University of Georgia

• Getting Past Color-Blind: Using Photo-Elicitation to Help Teachers See and Talk About Race - Michael L. Boucher, Texas A&M University - San Antonio