Seeing is believing? approaches to visual research

Recent years have seen an increase in the use of visual methods of research across the social sciences. As researchers realize the potential of the visual, not only as a source but also as a means of generating data, a range of techniques has been developed which seek data that are different from th...

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Other Authors Pole, Christopher J. 1959-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2004.
SeriesStudies in qualitative methodology ; v. 7.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849502115
1849502110
9780762310210
0762310219
ISSN1042-3192 ;
DOI10.1016/S1042-3192(2004)7
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 184 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Visual research: potential and overview / Christopher J. Pole
  • History through the lens: every picture tells a story / John Martin and Ruth Martin
  • Snap happy: toward a sociology of "everyday" photography / Barbara Harrison
  • Recording the "habitus" / Tim Dant
  • Performance, self-representation and narrative: interviewing with video / Sarah Pink
  • On using visual data across the research process: sights and insights from a social geography of people's independent learning in times of educational change / Pat Allatt and Caroline Dixon
  • Images, interviews and interpretations: making connections in visual research / Alan Felstead, Nick Jewson, and Sally Walters
  • Power, inequality, change and uncertainty: viewing the world through the development prism / Matt Smith and John Donnelly
  • Using visuals to release pupils' voices: emotional pathways into enhancing thinking and reflecting on learning / Andrea Raggl and Michael Schratz
  • The use of the visual medium for program evaluation / Rosalind Hurworth.