Photo Interviews: Eliciting Data through Conversations with Children

By Marva Cappello. 2005

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Photo-Elicitation Interviews with Vulnerable Populations: Practical and Ethical Considerations (2018, methodology): “For each of these interviews we prepared a photo interview kit (Cappello 2005; Epstein et al. 2006), which included a series of photographs that were taken by us or provided by Alice.”
Making meaning: children’s perspectives expressed through drawings (2009, background): “Some researchers have recommended having children engaged in doing something during the interviews (Cappello, 2005; Parkinson, 2001) or using props, like toys, paper and crayons, sand, clay, pictures, photographs, dolls and puppets (Doverborg & Pramling Samuelsson, 2003).”
Photographs and stories: ethics, benefits and dilemmas of using participant photography with Black middle-class male youth (2012, unknown): “Participant photography positions research subjects as participants in the construction of knowledge (Freire, 1970; Wang and Burris, 1994, 1997), enabling them to determine what’s important to study, and providing the researcher with a more emic viewpoint of the cultural phenomenon (Capello, 2005; C”
Picture This . . . Safety, Dignity, and Voice—Ethical Research With Children (2013, background): “One challenge is that children may fall into the familiar teacher–student role, where they feel they must perform to their best, be on their best behavior, and provide information that the “teacher” wants to hear (Burke, 2005; Cappello, 2005).”