Relating and Remembering Otherwise: Teaching Repair in Photographic Studies

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Abstract

This study proposes ways to enact repair, remember otherwise, and teach relational accountability through engagements with photographic case studies. It shares a pedagogical approach that centers social justice storytelling, archival intervention, and reflection on place, power, and positionality, enacted in an undergraduate history of photography course. Drawing on evidence from coursework, we present findings about student learning, with a focus on the relational and affective dimensions of learning; perceived agency to (re)write history; and sense of responsibility to community, place, and past. We discuss the results relative to wider conversations about transformative and place-based education in the arts and humanities, and in specific contexts where histories of art and media are taught.

Authors

• Jillian Lerner, University of British Columbia

• Rosa Dene David, University of British Columbia