«Me gusta “la selva” porque es un sitio salvaje, donde me puedo esconder»: el uso de la fotografía participativa en las geografías de la infancia

Noelia Ceballos López; Teresa Susinos Rada

doi:10.5565/rev/dag.506

“I like ‘the jungle’ because it is a wild place where I can hide”: The use of participatory photography in children’s geographies

Authors

Noelia Ceballos López Universidad de Cantabria
Teresa Susinos Rada Universidad de Cantabria

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Abstract

This research is framed in school children’s geographies and explores the meanings that students assign to school spaces, as well as the uses they attribute to them and the interactions they foster. This is proposed as an expression of students’ agency and the need to listen to their voice in the democratic processes of school improvement. Relying on a qualitative research model, participatory photography is used as an instrument to record student’s ideas and stimulate dialogue. The results reveal the possibilities this methodology offers for investigating school children’s geographies in light of the experience presented. The article also discusses why there are physical spaces such as classrooms that are not considered, what relationships these spaces facilitate and hinder, what meanings certain minority spaces have, and how students resignify some nondescript places for adults and connect them with their own interests and priorities.

Keywords

children’s geographies, participatory photography, school spaces, primary education

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