III. Recommended Readings about Photovoice

These are recommended readings to support instructors implementing photovoice activities in the classroom. Click on the title to access the article.

Bazemore-Bertrand, S. (2021). Using Photovoice as a Teaching Tool to Explore Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Students from Impoverished Backgrounds. Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 16(1), 43-57.

This article provides a first-person account of how the use of photovoice as a pedagogical tool helped pre-service teachers critically reflect on their perceptions of students from impoverished backgrounds. The author emphasizes the importance and usefulness of using photovoice to encourage pre-service teachers to examine how they think about children from low-income backgrounds. The article also provides useful examples and materials she used in her photovoice lessons.

Kessi, S. (2018). Photovoice as a Narrative Tool for Decolonization: Black Women and LGBT Student Experiences at UCT. South African Journal of Higher Education 32(3) 101-117

This article provides an example of how one instructor used photovoice research to examine the lived experiences of black, working-class, and LGBT students at the University of Cape Town in relation to calls for decolonization in higher education. The author finds that using the lens of decolonization enables students’ to understand their own experiences within a context of power relations and alienating institutional legacies, bureaucratic and cultural assumptions, violence, policing and the silencing of alternative ways of knowing and doing.

Malka, M., & Langer, N. K. (2021). The Implementation of Photovoice as a Tool for Documenting the Learning Experiences of Social Work Students on International Field Placement. International Social Work, 64(4), 511-525. 

This article provides a model for using photovoice methodology in a training seminar. The article includes a protocol for using photovoice with examples from seminars held during field placements in India and Ethiopia. The authors discuss the educational and pedagogic impact of photovoice as a useful reflective tool in international social work education.

Poulos, Michele (2023). PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment. Faculty Focus

This article provides insight into why photovoice technology is a useful tool in the classroom and how faculty can employ photovoice methodology.