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Children Framing Childhoods and Looking Back

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Visual Research Methods in Educational Research

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This chapter draws upon my longitudinal research, Children Framing Childhoods and Looking Back, which put cameras in the hands of thirty-six children growing up in working-poor and immigrant communities, inviting them to document their lives and schooling over time (at ages ten, twelve, sixteen and eighteen).1 The research has generated an extensive audiovisual archive housed on a password-protected website: 2036 photographs; sixty-five hours of video- and audio-taped individual and small group interviews of the thirty-six participants talking about their images; and eighteen video diaries produced by a sub-set of participants from ages sixteen to eighteen.

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  1. Deakin University, Australia

    Julianne Moss

  2. Griffith University, Australia

    Barbara Pini

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Luttrell, W. (2016). Children Framing Childhoods and Looking Back. In: Moss, J., Pini, B. (eds) Visual Research Methods in Educational Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137447357_10

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