Using visual methodologies to explore contemporary Irish childhoods

White, Allen; Bushin, Naomi; Carpena‐Méndez, Fina; Laoire, Caitríona Ní

doi:10.1177/1468794109356735

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“…A number of researchers who have used drawings as part of an arts-based method have proposed that this strategy be integrated with an interview (Guillemin 2004, Bagnoli 2009, White et al 2010, Boydell et al 2012. Guillemin (2004) utilised drawings of illness and explained how interviews are essential in eliciting from participants the nature of their drawings, including why they choose to draw particular images and the reasons for choice of colour and spatial organisation.…”

Section: Conversational Interviewsmentioning

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Moving beyond words: exploring the use of an arts-based method in Aboriginal community sport research

Blodgett

Coholic

Schinke

et al. 2013

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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In recognising the limitations of verbally based research methods for understanding and capturing the multidimensionality of lived experience, arts-based methods have been gaining ground within the social sciences. These methods embrace emotional, sensory, embodied and imaginative ways of knowing that lend to richer knowledge production and communication processes. Yet, these methods are rarely used in sport research. The purpose of the current project was to explore an arts-based method as a tool to facilitate participatory action research (PAR) and generate locally resonant knowledge about the sport experiences of Aboriginal community members in north-eastern Ontario, Canada. Mandala drawings were used to embrace an Indigenous epistemology and open up a culturally affirming space for Aboriginal athletes to share their experiences of sport relocation. Conversational interviews were then used to facilitate deeper understandings of the athletes' mandalas. The images contributed towards community action on two levels: (1) they affirmed a need for athletes to feel connected to their cultural community during relocation, therein reinforcing local efforts to support relocated athletes; and (2) they served as a resource for educating and inspiring other aspiring young athletes. The strengths and challenges of arts-based methods are discussed in relation to PAR. It is concluded that artsbased methods offer potential for community-based sport research, as these methods open up a diversity of art forms which can be adopted to reflect localised PAR processes and ways of knowing.

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Section: Conversational Interviewsmentioning

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Moving beyond words: exploring the use of an arts-based method in Aboriginal community sport research

Blodgett

Coholic

Schinke

et al. 2013

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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“…Careful, daily monitoring by the researcher was paid to ensure the blog was used in line with proper guidelines. 5 In employing visual methods (see White et al 2010;Leonard 2006), we also asked our sample to take 5-10 photographs that they felt reflected important aspects of their lives and identities, or to display objects deemed central to their daily lives. The visual narratives were displayed and discussed during interview sessions, or uploaded to the blog site if they wished.…”

Section: Journal Of Youth Studies 953mentioning

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The religio-cultural dimensions of life for young Muslim women in a small Irish town

McGrath

McGarry

2014

Journal of Youth Studies

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Studies of young Western-born/raised Muslims show the multiple, complex and changing relationships they have with their religion, and what freedom and autonomy might mean in this context. Despite such evidence, popular and academic discourses of the emancipated and free female subject of neoliberal society eclipse such important themes for Muslim youth. Using qualitative evidence from a study of young Muslim women in Ireland, we identify how religio-cultural dimensions are central within young women's social lives and personal worlds. Our analysis of these young women's narratives draws on structuration theory to examine what can be described as their circumscribed choices and freedoms. Focusing on the gendered norms, meanings and sanctions that circulate within family and community, we suggest that their social and personal worlds reflect a gendered responsibility and agency, as structured through their religio-cultural system. Maintaining religious integrity is a key dimension, reinforced through close interactions, relationships and identity performances at home and with friends. The research was conducted with both female and male teenagers using participant-led interviews and a range of other qualitative methods. From a total 33 Muslim participants, this paper draws on the narratives of 15 young women, aged between 12 and 19 years.

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“…Photos may be pre-selected by the researcher -in combination with specifically prepared questions regarding each picture -or alternately be selected by the respondent. Furthermore, different importance is assigned to the different elements: While some researchers regard it as crucial to discuss participant-produced pictures with the children who created the photos (White, Bushin, Carpena-Méndez, & Ní Laoire, 2010), others ask children to write short comments on each photo explaining why they took it and what they intended the picture to say (Darbyshire, MacDougall, & Schiller, 2005).…”

Section: Photo Interviews In Research With Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The use of photos and the process of taking them are supposed to be amusing for children (Cook & Hess, 2007). Thus, photo interviews are regarded as a method that may increase children's interest in participating in a study, intensify their engagement with a scientific research project, and maintain their interest throughout the research process (Cappello, 2005;Clark-Ibáñez, 2007;Croghan et al, 2008;Einarsdóttir, 2005;Harper, 2002;Newman, Woodcock, & Dunham, 2006;White et al, 2010).…”

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Photo Interviews With Children: Relating the Visual and the Verbal From a Participation Perspective

Zartler

2014

ijcyfs

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Abstract:The integration of visual prompts into qualitative interviews is regarded as a useful tool in attempting to give children the possibility of verbalizing memories and describing abstract issues. Furthermore, photo interviews are supposed to promote children's participatory research experiences. Less attention has been paid to how visual and verbal elements may be interrelated throughout the research process. Drawing on data from an Austrian empirical study with 50 children aged 10 years, the objective of this paper is to describe the combination of visual and verbal data in detail. Special emphasis is put on identifying factors that influence children's participation. The potential and limitations of photo interviews as a participative method of conducting research with children are elaborated. Although this approach does not per se decrease power differentials, enhance participation, or respect children's agency, it has a high potential to facilitate such action, if applied carefully, critically, and conscientiously.

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Using visual methodologies to explore contemporary Irish childhoods

Cited by 70 publications

References 37 publications

Moving beyond words: exploring the use of an arts-based method in Aboriginal community sport research

Moving beyond words: exploring the use of an arts-based method in Aboriginal community sport research

The religio-cultural dimensions of life for young Muslim women in a small Irish town

Photo Interviews With Children: Relating the Visual and the Verbal From a Participation Perspective

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