| Unit name | Visual Inquiry |
|---|---|
| Unit code | EDUCD0101 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | D/8 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Professor. Speedy |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
Understanding Educational Research |
| Co-requisites |
EdD dissertation preparation unit |
| School/department | School of Education |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit is designed to give participants a critical awareness of visual research methods. The unit will explore, review and practice a of visual and multi-modal narrative inquiry methods. There will be opportunities to participate in critical inquiry groups and visual methods workshops and experience, situate and evaluate both researcher-led and participatory visual approaches to social inquiry.
Aims:
Students will apply these methods and techniques in the particular context of their own discipline.
Module Specific Skills:
Describe and locate a range of visual inquiries
Reflect critically on a range of applications of visual theory and practice
Demonstrate and situate their own developing approach to visual inquiry
Demonstrate basic skills in the use of visual methods, to including collection, production, analysis and representation of visual research material
Awareness of ethical, political and value concerns in visual inquiry
Discipline Specific Skills:
Develop an appreciation of the theoretical underpinning of visual methods in relation to the discipline
Understand how visual inquiry can address specific challenges within a disciplinary context
Demonstrate and apply a critical understanding of visual inquiry used in the discipline.
Understand how visual methods are used in the discipline and gain an overview of some current examples within the discipline
Develop an understanding of discipline-specific ethical, political and value issues, related to visual inquiry
Personal and Key Skills:
Critical analysis
Ability to reflect on personal/ethical issues in relation to the use of digital, still and moving images.
Team work
Presentation skills
Practical skills in using digital equipment and visual methods
Lectures/presentations, seminars, group work (practice-based), use of digital tools and virtual learning environment.
Formative
Form of Assessment: Group presentation of use of digital tools.
Size of the assessment e.g. duration/length: 15 mins.
ILOs assessed by this assessment: Personal and key skills, principles of Visual inquiry methods.
Feedback method: verbal.
Formative (alternative)
Form of Assessment: Production/construction of visual research artifacts.
Size of the assessment e.g. duration/length: 15 mins.
ILOs assessed by this assessment: Principles of Visual inquiry methods.
Feedback method: verbal
Summative 100%
Form of Assessment: Videopaper
Size of the assessment e.g. duration/length: 10 mins video plus 2,000 words.
ILOs assessed by this assessment: Module and discipline specific skills.
Feedback method: Digital
Summative (alternative) 100% Form of Assessment: Multimodal assignment Size of the assessment e.g. duration/length: Equivalent of 2,000 words plus visual representations. ILOs assessed by this assessment: Module and discipline specific skills. Feedback method: Written/Visual
Goldman, R., Pea, R. D., Barron, B., & Derry, S. J. (Eds.). (2007). Video Research in the Learning Sciences. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Pink, S, Laszlo, K and Afonso, A (2004) Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography, London: Routledge
Rose, G (2001 2nd ed) Visual Methodologies. London: Sage.
Van Leeuwen, T. & Jewitt C. (eds) (2001) Handbook of Visual Analysis. London
Springgay, S, Irwin, R and Kind, SW (2005) A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text, Qualitative Inquiry, 11 (6) 897-912
Videopapers – Special Issue of Technology, Pedagogy and Education, Volume 18 Issue 3 2009.
