engaging cies members in visual research methods jackie kirk, irc & mcgill university cathryn...
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Engaging CIES members in visual research methods
Jackie Kirk, IRC & McGill UniversityCathryn Magno, Southern CT State University
CIES Gender Symposium ~ February 2007
Introduction From Gender Symposium 2006 to today
Traditional methodological approaches to gender and education quantitative measurements (e.g., gender
disaggregated enrollment data) policy analysis qualitative narratives (girls’ experience in
school)
Visual methodology
Research Questions (How) do agencies and organizations use
images of girls to further particular ideologies with regard to girls’ education?
What are the messages conveyed and received through such images?
What are the relationships between the images of girls and different discourses related to girls’ education and agency?
Literature Base Studies of the visual culture of childhood Studies of the visual culture and history of
schooling
Studies of images of ‘third world’ children
Studies of the images of ‘other adults’ living in far away countries and exotic cultures
Engaging CIES members Rapid response technique
Maps on to analysis tool
Approximately 1 minute/photograph
Informal contribution to research process
Image reading toolDocument Title:Document Type:Year of Publication:Organization: Summary of the Content:
Surface message: Narrative:Intended Message:Ideological Message:Oppositional Reading:Coherence:
Conclusions Theoretical implications
Ongoing research process Relevance of visual methods/analysis to field of
comparative and international education Especially for feminist scholars
Practical implications Agencies using images