A picture is worth a thousand words: The empowering potential of using photo-elicitation within research and teaching.....

This paper defines photo elicitation, traces its development and use within research, and explores its potential use within a teacher education classroom setting. The paper will argue that photo elicitation enhances the possibility of conventional research and reflection, particularly when researching across cultural and language boundaries. I will draw on the insights gained during a small-scale research project conducted using photo elicitation as one form of data collection while interviewing English Language Learners (ELLs), and the use of reflective photo elicitation within a teacher training classroom setting. This paper reasons that photo elicitation, when used as a basis for interviewing, teaching and reflection, can act as a powerful trigger for memories, and can evoke unexpected and varied topics of discussion within the research setting. The challenge is made to researchers and teachers within ELL fields to extend their use of photo elicitation as a means of gaining deeper insights into their ELLs

Focusing In: Using Photo Elicitation to Explore the Meanings of Outdoor Experiences

This exploratory qualitative study utilized photo-elicitation interviews to investigate the· inner significance of structured outdoor experiences for participants. Photo-elicitation provides a model for collaborative research in that the researcher becomes a listener as the subject interprets the image for the researcher. In the present study, photographs taken by the participants during their outdoor adventure experiences formed the foundation of the photo-elicitation interview

Using Photo Elicitation in Identifying Tourist Motivational Attributes for Visiting Taman Negara, Malaysia

This paper investigates motivational attributes of visiting Taman Negara in Malaysia using photo elicitation approach. Photo elicitation is based on the use of photography as a means with which to explore tourist’s views and perspectives of the subject understudy. Understanding photos involves three sets of questions, focused at content (what), purpose of creation (who, when, how) and interpretation (why). The paper argues that photo elicitation approach could produce a different kind of information needed for understanding tourist behaviour or attitude for visiting Taman Negara. The photographs provide the stimulus and the motivation for the photographer (in this case respondents) to explain the outcome and identify what and why they took the photographs, a view which could be misinterpreted by analyzing the images alone. Photo-elicitation is suitable for overcomes many issues associated with traditional methods (such as questionnaires), thus able to generates a wealth of information. Overall the photo-elicitation exercise demonstrated that although there were five (5) separate groups of respondent’s, the categories in the groups had very similar themes such as natural environment (such as forest, river, aboriginal people-the Batek Clan) as well as a place for preserving habitat of wild animals. The findings presents practical considerations and concludes that photo elicitation enlarges the possibilities of evokes information, feelings, and memories and consequently could be used to understand what really motivate tourists to come and visit at Taman Negara. Key words: Photo Elicitation; Motivational Attributes; Tourist; Taman Negara Malaysi

Methodological considerations and reflection on using online photo-elicitation techniques to explore students’ professional doctorate journey

In this methodological discussion, a critical and reflective account of the process and use of online photo-elicitation interviews is given. The role and importance of a well-structured pre-interview task are discussed with a working example aiming to capture physiotherapy students’ professional doctorate journey. It is argued that photo-elicitation techniques can increase active participation and enhance participants’ storytelling by encouraging the use of abstract thinking. This article also offers unique insights through the researcher’s reflective diary and direct quotes from the participants. Key considerations and practical recommendations are provided, such as the online application of photo-elicitation, the nature of the observed topic and working with and not alongside the pictures. Overall, this article is intended to further contribute to the literature on the evaluation and implementation of photo-elicitation techniques, especially in an online setting.</p

Photo-elicitation and time-lining to enhance the research interview: Exploring the quarterlife crisis of young adults in India and the UK

The aim of this article is to convey our experience of using photo-elicitation along with time-lining to enhance the research interview. We reflect on a study on the ‘quarterlife crisis’ in India and the UK. Participants were aged 22-30 years and self-defined as having experienced difficulties ‘finding their place in the world.’ There were 16 British (8 women, 8 men) and 8 Indian participants (4 women; 4 men). First, we consider how photo-elicitation proved highly compatible with our method of analysis – interpretative phenomenological analysis – through affording a deep connection with participant experience. Second, we explore how participants engaged with photo-elicitation and time-lining, providing examples of image content (events and feelings), image form (literal and symbolic), and creative use of timelines. Third, we reflect on how photo-elicitation and time-lining appeared to enhance participant agency, and to have a therapeutic value for participants, as well as providing particularly rich material for analysis

The Benefits of Photo-Elicitation in Arts Administration Research

This article explores the benefits of incorporating the photo-elicitation method into interviews within arts and cultural administration, leadership, and management research. Photographs are often used to open communications when traditional verbal communication is less reliable, or hindered by cross-cultural interactions. Within the arts and culture, researchers often use different terminology than administrative practitioners, and administrators often use different terminology than art makers and creative practitioners. Photo-elicitation serves to bridge those gaps in communication and open participants up to opportunities for deeper reflection. This article gives examples from one narrative inquiry study that utilized both exclusively verbal questions and also photo-elicitation in order to provide guidance for the usefulness of photographs as an interview tool

Photo-elicitation: using photographs to read retail interiors through consumers' eyes

Researchers studying experiences in retail environments have typically restricted their attention towards examining the influence of individual atmospheric variables upon customer behavior. In this respect photographs and video are common environmental simulation techniques. This research approach not only concerns researchers active in consumer culture theory, but also interior architects and retail designers. As holistic inspired practitioners, they maintain that interiors function as 'Gestalt' environments, interacting with their users. Inspired by their viewpoints, in this paper, the authors reflect on the use of the inductive, holistically inspired method of photo-elicitation in research concerning experiences in retail environments. In addition, they report on the application of photo-elicitation in two empirical projects. The findings demonstrate the value of photo-elicitation in gaining insight into customer experiences in retail interiors

Photo elicitation in tourism research: investigating the travel experiences of study abroad participants

Photo elicitation is a natural research technique for the field of tourism as most tourists take photographs to document their travel. Viewing photographs can often enhance memories and the impact of photos on memory is especially useful in the interview process. Among other benefits of the photo elicitation method, a participant may answer questions in greater detail when presented with a photograph as the photo can help the mind recall experiences more clearly and deeply (Cederholm, 2004; Clark-Ibanez, 2004). This paper presents the advantages and disadvantages of the photo elicitation method, how the method was used in a study on the travel experiences of study abroad participants, and a discussion on the impact of the method on the study

Using photo elicitation to understand first-year student experiences: Student metaphors of life, university and learning

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Images for change: community development, community arts and photography

This article explores how community development objectives can be achieved through critical photographic practice. It summarizes the literature relating to community arts practice and its potential for social regeneration. Photography is then located within this context and explored as a critical practice, with particular attention being given to photo-elicitation, photo-novella and photovoice methods. The literature is discussed and analysed to explore how far critical photographic practice can meet the objectives of community development