Visuacy, imagination, and engagement
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2009
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Australia’s National Review of Visual Education (DEEWR, 2009) asserts the primacy of visual language ability, or ‘visuacy” in problem-solving. This paper reports on a recent university/schools research project with ‘at risk’ middle school students in which visuacy was promoted as a primary medium for obtaining data relating to issues of immediate concern to the students. Using a students-as-researchers approach, the project investigated middle school students’ perspectives on school engagement and disengagement. In this project, novice researchers used a variety of data gathering methods including photography, video interviews and drawn images as well as more traditional verbal methods, such as interviews, and quantitative methods, such as questionnaires. Engaging student imagination was a key focus of the approach taken by the project, acknowledging that student participants may be reluctant to enter dialogue with teachers and researchers on matters to which they have previously had little input. Students who have previously been marginalized and prevented from contributing their voices to educational forums often have difficulty in adjusting to the novelty of collaborative research with adults (Rudduck, 2003) and may be uncertain of their own place in the relationship that defines teacher/student interactions. It is argued that the project’s promotion of visuacy, alongside more traditional literacies and numeracy in education research, helped to overcome these concerns, engaged the imaginations of the student researchers, and provided a medium for the expression of the voices of marginalised young people. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/28646/1/c28646.pdf http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/research/visual-methods-conference/ Bland, Derek C. (2009) Visuacy, imagination, and engagement. In Proceedings of the 1st International Visual Methods Conference, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds. |
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Copyright 2009 Please consult the author. |
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Office of Education Research; School of Cultural & Professional Learning; Faculty of Education |
Palavras-Chave | #130106 Secondary Education #visuacy #imagination #student voice |
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Conference Paper |