Photographic Inquiry and Educational Technologies: Generating Meaningful Narratives

Vol. 9 No. 4

Year: 2013

Issue: Jan-Mar

Title : Photographic Inquiry and Educational Technologies: Generating Meaningful Narratives

Author Name : Dr. Raji Swaminathan, Thalia Mulvihill

Synopsis :

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.