Participant Empowerment Through Photo-elicitation in Ethnographic Education Research

Acknowledgements.- The Authors.- Section One: Methodological, Critical, and Ethical Considerations.- 1. Introduction - Photo Methods, the Image, and Validity, Michael L. Boucher, Jr.- 2. The Ethics of Visual Research and Participant Empowerment, Kyle Miller.- Section Two: 'Listening' to The Silenced.- 3. Auto-driven Photo-elicitation Interviews with Young Deaf People, Dai O'Brien.- 4. Using Photo-Elicitation to Break the Silence, Kharon Grimmet.- 5. Photovoice as a Tool for Understanding Sustainability in the Anthropocene, Deborah Tippins and Sophia (Sun Kyung) Jeong with Purita Bilbao and Lourdes Morano.- Section Three: 'Listening' to Kids and Teachers.- 6. Friends, The Club, and The Housing Authority: How Youth Define their Community Through Auto-driven Photo Elicitation, Denisha Jones.- 7. Do you see what I see?: Family-produced Photographs and the Transition to School, Kyle Miller.- 8. Curb my Cynicism: Employing Photo Elicitation to Address the Problem of Research on Bullying, Gerald Walton.- 9.Mediating the Space Between: Using Photo-Elicitation to Prompt Cultural Consciousness-raising, Sarah Mathews.- 10. Interrogating Whiteness: Using Photo-elicitation to Empower Teachers to Talk about Race, Michael L. Boucher, Jr.- Conclusion: Troubling Empowerment.,Michael L. Boucher, Jr.

Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University and has published on White teachers who build relationships of solidarity with their African American students. He teaches instructional methods, research methods, developmental theory, and diversity classes to graduate students. Before becoming a teacher educator, he taught 9th and 10th graders to change the world at South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.