Graduate Lectures
Advanced course materials for graduate-level study in critical visual ethnography and conducting visual research. Designed for doctoral seminars in educational leadership and policy studies.
01
Downcast Eyes Images
This is a critical reading of a very important book by Martin Jay. My commentary emphasizes the connections and critiques of this work for Visual Sociology. This article can be found here
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02
Educational Ionics
One possibility for ethnography is to discipline to study the visual products of culture — their production, consumption and meaning. This talk is to convince you of the value of using the tools of ethnography…
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03
Geertz and Ethnograpthy
This presentation is more words than images; it is an introduction to the works of the ethnographic theorist Clifford Geertz: “Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he…
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04
Images in Struggle
This is a further examination of using photographs and images in social science. The mainstream social sciences are remarkable in the way that they have privileged the written word over all else. Not only the…
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05
Visual Research
Only recently has visual research been demarked as a set of methods distinguished from the fundamental observations of science; this was partially due to the invention of photography which has an ambiguous function. Photographs were…
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