Photo-elicitation and photo-voice: using visual methodological tools to engage with younger children’s voices about inclusion in education

In the last three decades, there has been a growing interest in listening to children’s voices in child health research. Ensuring an appropriate level of dialogical engagement with children calls for participatory methods. Auto-driven photo-elicitation interviews (PEIs) are a powerful approach to obtain rich data from children. This article discusses the opportunities and challenges of using auto-driven PEIs in a health-related child-centered constructivist grounded theory study conducted in a poor-resourced country. Our experience shows that while the approach is effective for facilitating co-construction of data with children and for addressing the ethical and methodological issues associated with child-centered research in the context of a developing country, it is narrow on its own. Broadening the term to “picture-elicitation interviews” to allow for the inclusion of other forms of images would make the method more adaptable and inclusive. This would give children the flexibility of choosing pictorial options that best suit them and also help child participants and researchers address the practical and cultural challenges associated with the use of auto-driven PEI in a poor-resourced country.

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Los medios audiovisuales en un trabajo etnográfico con migrantes del Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes (CETI) en la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla

RIEM Revista internacional de estudios migratorios ◽

10.25115/riem.v4i1.396 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Francesco Bruno Bondanini

Keyword(s):

Visual Media ◽

The Other ◽

Photo Elicitation ◽

Extended Time ◽

Participatory Video ◽

Audiovisual Media ◽

Construction Of Identity ◽

Other Hand ◽

Photo Voice

Resumen: En este trabajo etnográfico con migrantes del Centro de Estancia Temporal de Inmigrantes he considerado la utilización de medios audiovisuales con el fin de analizar su estancia en el Campo, haciendo hincapié en algunos temas centrales en la literatura sobre inmigración, como son la construcción identitaria, el sentido de pertenencia y el viaje migratorio. Durante el trabajo de campo he podido realizar entrevistas utilizando los medios audiovisuales como soporte para las mismas y para una serie de talleres y acciones que implicaban la participación de las personas migrantes residentes en el Campo. La posibilidad de utilizar durante un tiempo prolongado estos medios me ha permitido entablar una relación con el entrevistado distinta de la que puede entenderse como clásica entre la persona investigadora y el entrevistado, al tiempo en que la implicación y la participación de la persona entrevistada era mayor, mejorando así el proceso de recopilación de la información. En el artículo describo algunas de las técnicas audiovisuales utilizadas y sus resultados en la investigación; entre otras, el uso de la fotografía en las entrevistas o “photo elicitation”, “photo voice”, vídeo participativo y, finalmente, de cómo a través de un taller de radio se profundiza en el tema del hogar. Abstract: In an ethnographic work with migrants staying in the Centre for Temporary Stay of Immigrants (CETI), as per its Spanish acronym I was able to use audiovisual media in order to analyze their stay in the Camp, emphasizing key themes in the literature on immigration, such as the construction of identity, the sense of membership and the migratory journey. During the fieldwork I conduct interviews using audio-visual media as support on in interviews and in a series of workshops and activities involving the participation of migrants living in the field. The possibility of using these media for an extended time allowed me to build a relationship with the studied subject other than the classical researcher – respondent, and on the other hand, their participation was a greater involvement during the process of gathering information. In the article I describe some of the techniques used in research, including the use of photography in interviews or "photo elicitation", "photo voice" participatory video and how I developed a radio workshop to deepen into the theme of Home.

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Play, playwork and wellbeing

Practice-based Research in Children's Play ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447330035.003.0013 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Nic Matthews ◽

Hilary Smith ◽

Denise Hill ◽

Lindsey Kilgour

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Participatory Research ◽

Large Scale ◽

Photo Elicitation ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Rights Of The Child ◽

United Nations Convention ◽

Cross Sectional Studies ◽

Children’S Voices ◽

The Right

This chapter presents an overview of the literature on childhood wellbeing which is characterised by large scale, cross-sectional studies. However, Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), states that children have the right to express their own opinion on matters pertaining to them. Participatory research techniques and creative methodologies have the potential to put children’s voices at the centre of enquiries into childhood. Creative methods help children narrate their lived experience. This chapter sets out one element of a twelve month participatory research project in which the authors worked with a group of play rangers. Using drawings and photo elicitation, the play rangers engaged the children attending the play settings in informal discussions regarding their experience of being involved in outdoor play. Consideration was given to how these experiences support and contribute to the domains of wellbeing identified within a developmental assets framework.

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