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Visual narrative: a technique to enhance secondary students’ contribution to the development of inclusive, socially just school environments – lessons from a box of crayons
Author(s) -
Carrington Suzanne,
Allen Kate,
Osmolowski Daniel
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of research in special educational needs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.543
H-Index - 27
ISSN - 1471-3802
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-3802.2007.00076.x
Subject(s) - narrative , inclusion (mineral) , pedagogy , presentation (obstetrics) , narrative inquiry , citizen journalism , sociology , mathematics education , psychology , social science , political science , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , law , radiology
This paper reports on a project that involved Australian secondary school students working as participatory researchers in collaboration with a researcher and two teachers. Research methodology using visual narrative techniques provided the students with a conceptual lens to view their school community. The examples of visual narrative shared in this presentation depict problems, contradictions of exclusion and celebrations of inclusion in the lived world of the students. Photographs combined with narratives represent students’ views of their social, cultural and political environment. This project illustrates how the insights of students can help break down assumptions, values and meanings that block progress to achieving more socially just schools.