Photovoice

An opportunity and challenge for students' genuine participation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22945677
AutoresMaria Warne (0000-0003-2239-5683, Mid Sweden University, autor correspondente), Kristen M Snyder (0000-0001-7301-652X, Mid Sweden University), K Snyder, Katja Gillander Gådin (0000-0003-2148-8044, Mid Sweden University)
Ano2013
Volume28
Fascículo3
Páginas299-310
Data de publicação2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth Promotion International (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/heapro/das011
PMID22419620
OpenAlexW2112180553
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas33
Referências citadas29

It has been highlighted that youth empowerment and participation are important principles for school health promotion. Despite this fact, children and youth are rarely given instruments to participate or to influence their situations and the environments in their schools. Photovoice is a method to increased empowerment and participation. Originally it was created as a community action research method based on Freire's critical pedagogy and feminist theory. The purpose of this study was to explore challenges and opportunities for applying photovoice in a school setting to support genuine participation. Together with teachers and students in an upper secondary school in Östersund's municipality in the north of Sweden, the photovoice method was field tested and modified to a classroom situation. The teachers and the students were interviewed about their experiences with the method. The results were interpreted by content analysis and showed that the teachers' capability to be facilitators and the students' possibility to make a difference for the school or the municipality were the most important factors to succeed with photovoice. The conclusions were that photovoice challenges schools and society to have a better structure for genuine participation if youth participation is seen as valuable.

Economic growth · Empowerment · Pedagogy · Photovoice · Political science · Promotion (chess) · Public relations · Sociology · Youth empowerment · Children's Rights and Participation · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology