Have you noticed there is a burgeoning take up of visual research in education? Are you considering using visual research as part of your next research project or revitalising your research methods course?

1. Introduction; Julianne Moss and Barbara Pini PART I: IMAGES OF SCHOOLING: REPRESENTATIONS AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS 2. Designing School Buildings and Pedagogies: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Researching Visual Representations of Educational Innovations; Julie McLeod, Philip Goad, Julie Willis and Kate Darian-Smith 3. Historic Photographs as Data for Educational Research; Eric Margolis and Jeremy Rowe 4. Marketing and Elite Schooling: Stories Behind the Image; Barbara Pini, Paula McDonald and Jennifer Bartlett PART II: PERFORMING PEDAGOGY VISUALLY 5. The Use of the Visual to Interpret School Cultures: Producing Knowledge and Knowing When You Are Learning to Teach; Kim Senior and Julianne Moss 6. Visual Education Research: A Performative Cartography of Pedagogical Spaces; Mary Dixon 7. Using Film to Show Not Tell: Studying/Changing Pedagogical Practices; Pat Thompson and Christine Hall 8. Visual Language, Visual Literacy: Education a la Modes; Dawn D. Hassett PART III: POWER AND REPRESENTATION IN VISUAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 9. Repeat Photography and Educational Research; Amy Scott Metcalfe 10. Children Framing Childhoods and Looking Back; Wendy Luttrell 11. The Media Spectacle of Shadow Education in Hong Kong: A Visual-Political Economy Analysis; Aaron Koh 12. The Abductive Leap: Eliding Visual and Participatory in Research Design; Elaine Hall and Kate Wall PART IV: ETHICAL ISSUES IN VISUAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 13. Ethical Challenged in Visual Educational Research; Kitty te Riele and Alison Baker 14. The Gaze and the Gift: Ethical Issues When Young Children are Photographs; Patricia Tarr and Sylvia Kind

Have you noticed there is a burgeoning take up of visual research in education? Are you considering using visual research as part of your next research project or revitalising your research methods course? For researchers who are new to the field of VRMs in education there is little critical literature on the subject. This book addresses the gap in the literature and brings together some of the leading educational researchers engaging and reflecting on the visual from Australia, the UK and Canada. Encapsulated in a single volume, this book sets out theoretically grounded discussions of the possibilities and challenges of the approach for educational researchers around four key themes: images of schooling, performing pedagogy, power and representation and ethical issues in educational research.

“This collection makes a distinguished contribution to the fast-growing field of visual research methods, focusing specifically on education. Written by an international group of leading scholars, and anchored in their rich experience of doing and thinking about visual research, it provides an expansive view of the educational potential of visual approaches, coupled with a critical examination of the many ethical, social and educational issues involved. Always readable, the chapters also amply fulfil their common aspiration: ‘to look deeper and theorise with more complexity’.” (Professor Maggie MacLure, Professor of Education Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)  “Julianne Moss and Barbara Pini have brought together leading educational researchers to present theoretically grounded discussions surrounding visual research methods in education research. The contributors draw upon their working knowledge of social theory and action and engage in deep reflexivity with regards to their innovative work… Using a critical lens, the authors frame education and educational research within contemporary research.” (Professor Susan Wright, Chair/Professor of Arts Education and Director of the UNESCO Observatory of Arts Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia)  

Addresses the gap in research on visual research methods Provides useful and practical tips for those considering using visual research methods Establishes theoretical discussions of the possibilities and challenges for educational researchers