What does learning look like? Gwenda Mynott
Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University
Higher Education Academy : Social Sciences Conference
21 - 22 May 2014
Illum CC licence
Aims of the project
• To explore the individual learning experiences of Business & PR students
• To develop students’ critical reflection skills in relation to their own learning
• To develop visual literacy skills
• To evaluate the pedagogical benefits and drawbacks of using participatory photography
Photovoice
• A participatory photography methodology
• Usually used in community and advocacy settings but has been used in higher education (Chio, V. and (Fandt, P.
(2007) ; Schell, K., Ferguson, A., Thomas-Maclean, R. (2009))
• Action research
• “This visualization of the personal student learning experience will enable both academics and students to better understand the practicalities of engaged learning.”
Participation
“equalizing the distinctions between expert and non-expert knowledge”
So far….
• Workshops on visual communication
– What makes you happy?
– Where do you study?
• Treasure hunt activities
• Working with text & images
• Worked individually, in pairs and small groups
Something that makes you happy
©Sellers 2014
©Jackson 2014
Where do you learn?
© Green
© Green
© McGee
Yet to happen….
• More online/offline workshops with students
• Workshop for academics
• Toolkit
• Evaluation, evaluation, evaluation
Challenges/key learning points
• Ethics
• My own time management
• Student attendance/buy-in
– Participation/engagement/co-contributors/power?
• Evaluation
References
• Chio, V. and Fandt, P. (2007) Photovoice in the diversity classroom: engagement, voice and the “eye/I” of the camera Journal of Management Education Vol.31 No.4 pp.484-504
• Schell, K., Ferguson, A., Thomas-Maclean, R. (2009) Photovoice as a teaching tool: learning by doing with visual methods International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Vol.21 No.3 pp.340-352
• Photovoice - http://www.photovoice.org/
And things to look at:
• What is visual literacy? - http://vislit.squarespace.com/visual-literacy/
• My remote classroom: online students share their photos - http://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2014/feb/19/online-students-remote-classroom-gallery
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