Photo-monologues and photo-dialogues from the family album

Arab and Jewish students talk about belonging, uprooting and migration

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12876282
AutoresYa’ara Gil-Glazer (0000-0002-6043-6100, Tel Hai Academic College, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume16
Fascículo2
Páginas175-194
Data de publicação2019-03-08
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Peace Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1740-0201 • E-ISSN: 1740-021X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17400201.2019.1587744
OpenAlexW2921643601
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas34

This article analyses two concepts that merge critical educational theory and practice: photo-monologue and photo-dialogue, based on a workshop of Arab and Jewish students in Israel focused on family albums. The photo-monologue consists of a photograph and a quote by or in the name of a person seen in the photograph. The photo-dialogue is a group discussion of photo-monologues. All photo-monologues created by the students and the author, who facilitated the workshop, included the themes of belonging, uprooting and migration shared by both Jews and Arabs in Israel in ways insufficiently addressed in scholarly or daily discourse. The photo-monologues were discussed from a critical pedagogy approach, which stresses acknowledgment of cultural and historical differences and silenced personal-political hi/stories, as well as creating new knowledge through student-student and student-teacher dialogue. This knowledge is both factually and qualitatively different from that provided by the official curriculum, giving collective voice to traumatic family histories and offering the potential of building trust and bringing students of diverse origins closer together. Based on insights from these discussions, the article proposes the photo-monologue and photo-dialogue as vehicles for broader critical educational discourse that merges the personal and the political, particularly in complex socio-political contexts like Israel

Archaeology · Art · Judaism · Pedagogy · Sociology · Visual arts · Children's Rights and Participation · Global Education and Multiculturalism · History · Participatory Visual Research Methods