DUCATIVE RESEARCH. EXPERIENCES AND DISCUSSIONS REGARDING A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

Abstract

In this article, we want to discuss how some research projects use photography as part of their methodological constructions. We present and analyze three research experiences, by considering them from its publication in an academic journal. We also consider a fourth experience, derived from our own Master research project. Looking over these four experiences, we analyze and compare the uses of photography that each of them has performed in research projects as well as in pedagogical projects, carried out in children, young and adult schools. We also consider the relationship between photography and interviews in these experiences. We present some suggestions, derived from our own research project, for the analysis of the photographs produced by the interlocutors. In order to develop these suggestions, we need to consider pictures as a discourse and in a way they can be useful not only to researchers but also to teachers. In this process, we put together contributions from semiotics, narratology and photography and cinema studies.

Keywords

• photography
• educative research
• methodological construction
• children
• teenagers and adult schools