Visual methodologies, sand and psychoanalysis: employing creative participatory techniques to explore the educational experiences of mature students and children in care

Mannay, Dawn; Staples, Eleanor; Edwards, Victoria

doi:10.1080/1472586x.2017.1363636

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“…The process of creating a collage can reveal pleasant and not-so-pleasant memories. While not the most important aspect of the process, allowing the surfacing of painful memories (Mannay et al, 2017) can also provide a cathartic opportunity for participants' feelings to be acknowledged and heard. As part of my duty of care to my participants, I provided details of the Education Support Partnership to them at each interview.…”

Section: Collages As Visual Datamentioning

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“…One of the main advantages of using collage to explore the experience of struggling was to allow participants to engage in a process of de-and refamiliarization. Engaging in art can force us to slow down, to linger and to notice (Gurevitch, 1988;Mannay, 2010;Mannay et al, 2017). Burge et al ( 2016: 733) also suggest that alternative approaches such as collage can upset our assumptions, 'making the familiar seem uncomfortably strange'.…”

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The unspoken power of collage? Using an innovative arts-based research method to explore the experience of struggling as a teacher

Culshaw¹

2019

London Review of Education

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This article reports on the methodological approach taken in a doctoral study that explores what it means to be struggling as a teacher. Participants were established and experienced teachers and leaders in the secondary school system in England. A particular form of collage – where materials are placed rather than stuck – was used within the context of a research interview. Arts-based methods such as collage are gaining in popularity as they stimulate visual rather than linguistic thinking and offer the opportunity to express experiences as holistic, non-linear metaphors. Collage also has revelatory potential as it helps uncover that which participants cannot necessarily express in words alone. The author presents the analytical challenges of intermingling the verbal and visual data in her study by discussing the collages created by two participants. An analysis of those collages shows that factors influencing struggling can be both internal and external. Struggling was found to be experienced as a temporary fractured state. Struggling was expressed by participants as heightened bodily tensions with a predominantly negative emotional tone; it can also involve a damaged self-view and a reduced sense of controllability, and may lead to impaired performance.

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Section: Collages As Visual Datamentioning

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Section: Collages As Visual Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

The unspoken power of collage? Using an innovative arts-based research method to explore the experience of struggling as a teacher

Culshaw¹

2019

London Review of Education

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“…During the second interview, participants discussed the pre-activities, and nine women completed a sandboxing exercise ( Lowenfeld 1979 ; Mannay, Staples, and Edwards 2017 ) to metaphorically illustrate the impact of pregnancy on their everyday lives. In contrast to study one, when a researcher who was not a mother was selected to work with participants, in the sandboxing activity, the shared experience of motherhood was used to facilitate discussion around these topics.…”

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Negotiating Closed Doors and Constraining Deadlines: The Potential of Visual Ethnography to Effectually Explore Private and Public Spaces of Motherhood and Parenting

Mannay

Creaghan²,

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Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Pregnancy and motherhood are increasingly subjected to surveillance by medical professionals, the media, and the general public, and discourses of ideal parenting are propagated alongside an admonishment of the perceived “failing” maternal subject. However, despite this scrutiny, the mundane activities of parenting are often impervious to ethnographic forms of inquiry. Challenges for ethnographic researchers include the restrictions of becoming immersed in the private space of the home where parenting occurs and an institutional structure that discourages exploratory and long-term fieldwork. This paper draws on four studies, involving thirty-four participants, that explored their journeys into the space of parenthood and their everyday experiences. The studies all employed forms of visual ethnography, including artifacts, photo elicitation, timelines, collage, and sandboxing. The paper argues that visual methodologies can enable access to unseen aspects of parenting and engender forms of temporal extension, which can help researchers to disrupt the restrictions of tightly time bounded projects.

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“…This type of setting was previously used in studies of non-directive psychotherapy with children. For example, in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Mannay and her colleagues (2017) used videotaped session of "sandboxing" in order to allow children to create scenes representing their images about school or their projections about their future (Mannay et al, 2017).…”

Section: Using Video Data In Analyzing Interactions In Education and mentioning

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Learning From a Failed Mixed Methods Child Art-Therapy Research Project

Cucu-Ciuhan

Iliescu

2020

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This paper critically describes a mixed methods study focused on the development of a measurement instrument and the effectiveness evaluation of an art-therapy intervention for children. The project combined an outcome research, conducted for the validation of a psychotherapy program for children with behavioral and emotional problems, with a mixed qualitative-quantitative study for the development and validation of an observation sheet for the analysis of video recordings in the assessment of children’s self-image. Even if the quantitative analysis showed that both the instrument and the program were adequate, the research program cannot be considered a success because of several shortcomings. We describe the strengths and the gaps of the qualitative study, as well as the likely motives for the failure of the entire project. We also include lessons learned and recommendations.

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Visual methodologies, sand and psychoanalysis: employing creative participatory techniques to explore the educational experiences of mature students and children in care

Cited by 41 publications

References 51 publications

The unspoken power of collage? Using an innovative arts-based research method to explore the experience of struggling as a teacher

The unspoken power of collage? Using an innovative arts-based research method to explore the experience of struggling as a teacher

Negotiating Closed Doors and Constraining Deadlines: The Potential of Visual Ethnography to Effectually Explore Private and Public Spaces of Motherhood and Parenting

Learning From a Failed Mixed Methods Child Art-Therapy Research Project

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