An imaginarium for socially just ideas : making sense of visual (and other non-textual) practice : a reflection

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Abstract

![CDATA[A series of serendipitous events has led me to a current review of new ideas for visual practice in the teaching of community development. The driver for this has been a radical change in campus location, requiring some new thinking about delivery of the course. The course has been rescheduled to include many more first year students, so issues (some outlined below) about confidence, accessibility and new ways of studying come into play. This coincides with my own revitalised interest in photography and the desire to make the requisite online materials more interesting than simply lecture slide shows. It is also about giving voice to tacit understandings as a gateway to rich learning. I start this reflection by reaching back to the 1990s and my journey into conscious adult education. It was in this period, as a union educator, that I began to theorise my practice and go beyond what felt, intuitively, such as the right approach to education for social justice. I started to challenge ‘hegemonic’ thinking and how it operates. For that reason, this is not about visual practice per se, but about the way in which text (and intellect) can dominate knowledge production. Countering hegemonic thinking was an act of solidarity with the participants in delegate training courses and visual practice is one aspect of that.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVisual Communication for Social Work Practice: Power, Culture, Analysis
EditorsSonia M. Tascon
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages130-135
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781351241977
ISBN (Print)9780815374534
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • communication in social work
  • visual communication

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