Visual Research Methods in Education: Recent Qualitative Dissertations Designed to Promote Social Justice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This proposed symposium brings together emerging scholars who leverage visual and multimodal research methodologies including photovoice, participatory drawings, visual thinking strategies and visual elicitation interviews to center participants and promote social justice. Indeed, the research in this session demonstrates how expansive and innovative qualitative research methods can be used to address the intersectional identities we bring to the complexities of learning and to disrupt the deficits too often attributed to students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. In addition, we hope to encourage other scholars to think more broadly about what counts as research and to try on a wider variety of methodologies that best suit their inquiries.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodology / Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods

Chair

• Angela M. Wiseman, North Carolina State University

Papers

• Visual Research Methods in Education: Recent Qualitative Dissertations Designed to Promote Social Justice - Marva Cappello, San Diego State University

• A PhotoVoice Constructivist Grounded Theory Research Design for the Study of Transborder Identity Development - Vannessa Falcón Orta, San Diego State University

• Visualizing Dual Language Through the Eyes of Black Girls - Reka C. Barton, San Diego State University

• Visualizing Girlhood: Visibility and the Power of the Black Girl Gaze to Understand Girls' Identity - Darielle Blevins, Arizona State University

• The Intersection of Academia and Identity: Hmong American Students in Higher Education - Melissa Vang, California State University - Los Angeles

Discussant

• Jennifer Danridge Turner, University of Maryland