ERIC Number: EJ1384517
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
EISSN: EISSN-2162-0725
Partnering with Children through Visual Documentation
Wert, Jodi
Childhood Education, v99 n2 p60-65 2023
Visual documentation (videography and photography) can facilitate children's full participation in the stories and plans of their work and thereby invite a deeper literacy of agency and belonging. The shared medium of still and moving images invites shared power in the design and ongoing decisions about learning. Jodi Wert refers to using visual documentation as a way to nurture distinct possibilities because much of what videos and photos capture has been there all along, only often outside of adult awareness or acknowledgment. Videos and photos invite clearer adult perception, and, perhaps, spark memories about how to access the vast possibilities in early childhood learning and wellness. In this article, she describes how she works with teachers to optimize the benefits of visual documentation, showing them how to use smartphones and digital cameras to: (1) Amplify children's interests and ways of knowing and being; (2) Fully partner with children by teaching them camera skills (strong preference for children using digital cameras over smartphones because the former is often a novel technology that invites motor skills practice, such as securing a wrist strap, holding the camera, looking through the viewfinder, and pushing the button); and (3) Co-create mindsets, heart-sets, environments, and practices that nurture greater connections, openness to distinct possibilities, and healthy development.
Descriptors: Video Technology, Photography, Documentation, Early Childhood Education, Educational Benefits, Technology Uses in Education, Wellness, Psychomotor Skills, Picture Books, Student Participation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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