Full Description
Critical Visual Methods to Advance Racial Justice in Educational Research advances critical research methodologies for analyzing visual and multimodal data, with particular attention to racial justice and minoritized communities. It presents innovative theoretical frameworks and analytical approaches for examining how visual representations impact, perpetuate, and potentially transform systemic inequities in educational research.
Organized into three sections, this book explores analytic frameworks, methods for critical visual analysis, and visual praxis in schools and communities. Contributors weave together transformative theories while demonstrating innovative approaches to visual analysis including photovoice, collage, slow looking, and radical curation that center participant perspectives. The book showcases rigorous approaches to analyzing visual data while maintaining methodological depth. Key findings illustrate how visual methodologies can reveal hidden power structures, document lived experiences, and generate new knowledge about how minoritized communities engage with and create visual meaning. The work advances understanding of perspectives across the lifespan—from children to youth to adults—through visual and multimodal research methods.
This book is designed for emerging and established educational scholars interested in critical visual and multimodal methodologies, and serves as an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate research courses. It offers valuable insights for researchers studying representation, identity, and equity, while advancing innovative approaches for analyzing visual and multimodal data in educational research.
Contents
Section 1. Expanding Race-Based Analytic and Conceptual Frameworks 1. Exploring Intersectional Media Literacies to Interpret Racialized Texts 2. You are the [Theory] Baby: The Interplay Between Black Photographs and Theory Making 3. Outsiders Within: Visual Representations of Black and Brown National Identity 4. Hope, Dystopia, and Imagination: Visualising the Semiotic Landscape in a School for Incarcerated Youth in Eswatini; Section 2. Understanding Methods and Techniques for Critical Visual Analysis 5. Braiding African Diasporic Autoethnography, Visual, and Multimodal Methodologies to Examine the Lived Experience of a Ghanaian/African Student-Athlete concerning Sickle Cell Trait (SCT) Status and the 1-Year Scholarship in the U.S. and NCAA 6. Visualizing Asian American Identities: Connecting Cultural Roots to Otherwise Possibilities through Collaging 7. Borders Are Man Made Just Like Racism: Using Photovoice to Reveal Transborder College Students' Experiences of Violence and Militarization at the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 8. "Using My Own Face as a Frame": Creating, Curating, and Analyzing Self-Portraits in Pursuit of Intersectional Educational Justice; Section 3. Advancing Critical Visual Praxis with Schools and Communities 9. "I think they both have Power!": Critical 'Slow Looking' of Picturebooks with Diverse Racial, Linguistic, and Cultural Representations 10. Elevating Black Girlhood through Visual Methodology: Arts-Based Research as a Lens for Seeing Black Girls 11. Finding Hope in the Disruption of Epistemologies of Ignorance through Student's Visual Representations 12. Embodied Solidarities: An Examination of Using Critical Digital Literacies to Dismantle White Supremacy and Racial Terror 13. Collaborative Radical Curatorial Praxis as Liberatory Research Methodology
