Bøker av Kerry Freedman

Kerry Freedman is Professor of Art and Design Education at Northern Illinois University. She is the coauthor (with Richard Siegesmund) of Visual Methods of Inquiry: Images as Research, among other books. Fernando Hernández-Hernández is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Visualities and Arts-based Research at the University of Barcelona. He is the coeditor (with J.M. Sancho-Gil) of Becoming an Educational Ethnographer: The Challenges and Opportunities of Undertaking Research, among other books.

Visual Methods of Inquiry: Images as Research presents qualitative researchers in the social sciences with the benefits, applications, and forms of visual research methods. It includes a wide variety of images to illustrate the many uses of visual methods for social research.Contemporary visual culture theory and practice offers wide-ranging opportunities for methodological advancement in the social sciences. This book covers the basics of image use in visual research methods and explores how these methods can be used effectively in social science research by surveying the conditions of visual forms, materials, and concepts, and the ways these represent and influence social conditions, phenomena, beliefs, and actions. It examines the roles and processes of interpretation in visual research and discusses ethical considerations that arise when using visual research methods. Students of social science and the visual arts will find this book useful in expanding and improving their methods of inquiry. Artists and researchers already familiar with visual methods will find that this book clarifies the ways the visual works in various research contexts and provides helpful language to describe and explain those methods.