Shifting the focus: children’s image-making practices and their implications for analysis

Lomax, Helen Jayne (2012). Shifting the focus: children’s image-making practices and their implications for analysis. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 35(3) pp. 227–234.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2012.713932

Abstract

This paper provides analytic focus on the productive and editorial contexts of children and young people’s image-making, making visible its implications for the analysis of photographs. Drawing on participatory research in which children and young people worked alongside researchers to create a visual narrative of their lived experiences of neighbourhood, the paper suggests that greater attention to children’s image-making practices brings an important dimension to the interpretative challenges generated by the visual. Through a focus on image-making and its productive and editorial contexts, the paper shifts the analytic focus away from the image as a site of meaning-making to encompass the ways in which photographs acquire multiple meanings through the lived experience of their creators.

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• Item ORO ID
• 35983
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1743-7288
• Extra Information
• Special issue: Problemising Visual Methods: Philosophy, Ethics and Methodologies
• Keywords
• childhood, visual methods, interpretation, context, production, creative process
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
• Depositing User
• Helen Lomax