ERIC Number: EJ1413615
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 31
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0951-8398
EISSN: EISSN-1366-5898
Posthuman Figurations and Hauntological Graspings of Historical Consciousness/Thinking through (Re)Photography
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v37 n3 p785-815 2024
This article draws on data collected from a secondary school in Florida to explore how temporally disjointed aesthetics (e.g. (re)photographs) impact constructions of historical knowledge. Using posthuman concepts (e.g. assemblage, rhizome, spacetimematter(ing), hauntology), this study relied on visual methodologies-specifically photo-elicitation--to attend to the question: How do engagements with (re)photographs contribute to the development secondary students' historical consciousness/thinking? Data consisted of artifacts reflecting engagements with three collections of (re)photographs featuring ghosts/hauntings and semi-structured focus group interviews. Rhizomatic assemblages re-presenting entanglements with what was produced during this study suggest that (re)photographs not only fostered historical consciousness/thinking by exposing the in-between/ness of temporality and materiality, but that (re)photography extends the boundaries historical consciousness/thinking through students' emerging relationships to the pastpresentfuture(ing).
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Photography, Aesthetics, Time Perspective, Historical Interpretation, Humanism, World Views, Social Change, Consciousness Raising, Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Social Studies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida
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