Engaging Images for Research, Pedagogy, and Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620365898 ISBN 13: 9781620365892

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This book introduces practitioners and researchers of student affairs to the use of images as a means to gaining new insights in researching and promoting student learning and development, and understanding the campus environment. Visual research methods can surface and represent ideas in compelling ways and augment the traditional written word and numerical data methodologies of social science research. The purpose of this book is to provide informative, rich examples of the use of visuals to understand and promote college student development research, pedagogy, and practice.

With the increased accessibility of cameras, the ability to engage in image production has become widely available. Individual--including college students, faculty, and administrators--narrate the social world in new ways using visuals. While on the one hand students are using images to mobilize around social issues on campus, on the other, institutionally produced visual artifacts send messages about institutional culture and values. In promoting visual literacy, this book offers new opportunities for student development administrators and faculty to utilize the visual sensory modality and image-based artifacts to promote student success and belonging which are critical outcomes of higher education.

The book is divided into three sections: research, pedagogy, and practice. The first makes the case for adding visual methods to the researcher’s toolbox, describing past uses and outlining a theoretical approach to visual methods and methodologies in higher education research. The pedagogical section demonstrates different and creative ways for educators to think about how subjects--such as social justice--might be taught and how educators can draw upon new, changing modalities in their existing pedagogies and frameworks; and it illustrates how visual-based pedagogies can prompt students to new understandings about the content of their course of study. The concluding section describes how student development professionals can also utilize visual methods to provide students with out-of-classroom learning opportunities and as a means to stimulate student reflection and identity development. It also explores how visual methods can serve a way for practitioners to reflect on their professional practice and use of theory in their work.

Intended for higher education educators, researchers, and practitioners who teach, research, and promote college student development and learning, this book could also be used in student affairs and higher education courses and professional development workshops.

About this title

About the Author

Bridget Turner Kelly is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Loyola University Chicago. Her scholarship focuses on marginalized populations in higher education, such as women faculty on the research tenure-track in which she used the visual method of participant drawing in a longitudinal study.

She has authored over 20 publications, including, two articles that have received over 100 citations each and two that have been cited in AMICUS briefs for U.S. Supreme Court cases.

For over fifteen years, she has taught in graduate preparation programs using visual methods in pedagogy and made national presentations about visual research and pedagogy at the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the American College Educators International.

Dr. Kelly served on the editorial review board of the Journal of College Student Development for ten years and is the Associate Editor for Media Features and Reviews for the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice.

Review

"Engaging Images is an all-in-one resource for the innovative use of visual methods to study, teach, and practice student development in higher education. It introduces new approaches and revives or repurposes others, providing the field with theory behind the use of visual methods as well as concrete examples of how to use them in a time when digitization both enables and challenges scholars and educators to interact with the world in new ways." (Kristen A. Renn, Ph.D., Professor of Higher, Adult, & Lifelong Education, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for Student Success Research Michigan State University 2019-09-25)

"If you are interested in liberating untapped teaching and learning possibilities and you want to enhance analytical skills, cultivate reflection, improve visual literacy, enrich student learning and foster a greater sense of belonging, then you must read this book and share it with your colleagues. Kelly and Kortegast courageously help us understand that we undoubtedly live in a more visual world and that higher education needs to reflect this reality in research, pedagogy and practice." (Patricia A. Perillo, Ph.D., Vice President for Student Affairs Virginia Tech 2017-08-23)

"Filled with detailed, practical, and powerful examples of visual practices, the chapters of this book carefully and candidly guides readers through every aspect of what it means to work with visual content in college student development research, pedagogy, and practice. This book is a ‘must-read’ for anyone in student affairs who wants to develop a praxis that is attentive and responsive to the power of the visual in contemporary society.” (Nana Osei-Kofi, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies & Director of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program Oregon State University 2017-08-16)

“Editors Bridget Turner, Carrie Kortegast, and contributors document the multiple ways visual methods (e.g., photovoice, photo-elicitation, or critical media studies) enhance higher education research, pedagogy, and practice. The book contains specific examples of ways that educators can leverage the use of images to optimize student learning and encourage students’ critical engagement in and understanding of campus cultures.

An explicit goal of this book is to nudge higher education to broaden conventional notions of educational research (e.g., scientific inquiry), by embracing arts-based methods. Contributors offer compelling cases that arts-based methods can: make visible marginalized communities’ experiences that conventional research may overlook and cultivate students’ critical consciousness by revealing debilitating assumptions and practices in cultural and educational systems that are often hidden in plain view. The historical and theoretical overviews coupled with research and classroom exemplars reveal ways for students to decipher the increasingly visual world in which they live.” (Peter Magolda, Professor Emeritus Miami University 2017-08-16)

“The scant set of examples using visual methods in higher education research makes this book a valuable resource. Grounded in research, pedagogy, and practice, this text provides a roadmap for both researchers and practitioners who incorporate images into their work. A refreshing read.” (Brian L. McGowan, assistant professor of higher education University of North Carolina at Greensboro 2017-08-11)

"Contemporary college life is awash in visual images resulting from the spread of smart phone cameras and the increasing ubiquity of digital media. Engaging Images explores the emerging use of visual resources in higher education. Combining a state-of-the-art overview with compelling examples of research and practice, the edited volume is a unique and valuable compendium for anyone interested in capitalizing on the potential of visual images in higher education research, pedagogy, and student affairs." (Karen Arnold Boston College 2017-08-04)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1620365898
• ISBN 13: 9781620365892
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Kortegast Carrie A., Kelly Bridget Turner