This article examines the possibilities of photography as a tool for Qualitative Research data collection, data analysis, and display. The authors argue that the new vanguard of educational technologies (ETs) further illuminates the analytical possibilities of photographic data and ETs can serve as an engaging way to interact with meaning-making related to the increasingly more visual socio-cultural context of qualitative inquiry.  ETs related to creating and displaying photographs combined with engaging multimodal pedagogies can produce endless possibilities for arranging data and generating meaningful narratives.

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Photographic Inquiry and Educational Technologies: Generating Meaningful Narratives

Dr. Raji Swaminathan*, Thalia M. Mulvihill**
* Director, Urban Education Doctoral Program & Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Community Studies, .
** Professor of Social Foundations of Education and Higher Education, Director of the Adult, Higher and Community Education Doctoral, Program, Ball State University, Muncie.
Periodicity:January - March'2013
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jet.9.4.2127

Abstract

This article examines the possibilities of photography as a tool for Qualitative Research data collection, data analysis, and display. The authors argue that the new vanguard of educational technologies (ETs) further illuminates the analytical possibilities of photographic data and ETs can serve as an engaging way to interact with meaning-making related to the increasingly more visual socio-cultural context of qualitative inquiry.  ETs related to creating and displaying photographs combined with engaging multimodal pedagogies can produce endless possibilities for arranging data and generating meaningful narratives.

Keywords

Photographic inquiry, Visual Qualitative Research, Educational Technologies, Creative Qualitative Research.

How to Cite this Article?

Swaminathan , R., and Mulvihill T. M. (2013). Photographic Inquiry And Educational Technologies:Generating Meaningful Narratives. i-manager’s Journal of Educational Technology, 9(4), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.26634/jet.9.4.2127

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