Visual Methods

(TO BE AMENDED!!)

What are visual methods? why might you use visual methods? how might you use visual methods to gain insights and understandings into people's perceptions, beliefs, assumptions and attitudes? What are the strengths of this method? what are the potential limitations?
You must refer to literature to inform and support your work.

Thinking visually demands us to rethink and reframe how we ‘see’ and understand a specific aspect. Creating visual representations (or working using visual metaphors) allows us to explore different ways of seeing and works to make the familiar strange. Creating visual representations and thinking about ourselves and who we are in visual terms requires us to go beyond simply describing and ‘telling’ our own stories. Instead ‘showing’ our stories/understandings moves us towards conceptualising, interpreting, interrogating and analysing what we know, think and see.


Video clip: ADD CLIP

Working with visuals
In this clip Bernadette, a primary teacher studying to become a Chartered Teacher, talks about how she has used visuals in her research.

Working with visuals
Bernadette McKay

In this clip Bernadette, a primary teacher studying to become a Chartered Teacher, talks about how she has used visuals in her research.
Introduction
Visual Data
Pupil Responses
Impact On Learning


Activity: Who am I as a leader?
Create a visual representation of your self as a leader. Your visual should try and encapsulate not only your current role/leadership activity but also explore how you became the leader you now are. The visual should allow you to consider and unpick your own beliefs, values and assumptions about being a leader and educational leadership. You might choose to present the visual as a ‘snap shot’ of who you are now or map the ‘journey’ you have taken to get here.
Your visual could be a number of things, including but not limited to: an image you have found; a photograph or image you have created; a drawing or painting; a 3D model (you should photograph or video this for sharing); an abstract image or visual metaphor; a series of images presented together to tell your story
You should upload your image here (as a jpg preferably) and include a brief textual account to accompany the visual representation, as appropriate. You should use the annotate function to identify/draw attention to any specific part of the visual and explain what this represents and why.
You should view and comment on each other’s visuals – using both the discussion threads and the annotate tool.