We’ve found numerous sources online of pedagogical writing about the teaching of photography K-12 and related issues. As a matter of policy, we provide reference access only to those that publish material by permission of the authors. Here are links to those:
- “Let’s Make a Better Picture: Teaching Photography as Science and Art to First Graders”: From the Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice, a refereed journal published by Lesley University, this paper by Sylvia Sensiper, M.A., Ph.D., describing in great detail a program at a K-8 school in Cambridge, Mass. (Click here for PDF download.)
- “Photography and Children: The Transgressive Quality of Teaching Children How to Represent Themselves”: Discussion by Lori Ungemah of her experience teaching in the Literacy Through Photography program (see above). From the journal Extimacy, published by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
- “A camera is a big responsibility”: A lens for analysing children’s visual voices: Paper by Wendy Luttrell, Visual Studies, 25, 3, 224-237, January 1, 2010. (PDF download.)
Children Framing Childhoods: Working Class Kids’ Visions of Care : New book by Wendy Luttrell “offers an alternative angle of vision — animated by young people’s own photographs, videos, and perspectives over time. It shows how a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse community of young people in Worcester, MA used cameras at different ages (10, 12, 16 and 18) to capture and value the centrality of care in their lives, homes, and classrooms.” The content-rich website devoted to the project will reward a visit.- “Photography in Education”: Paper by Ravi Chopra. From the book The Cultural Dimension of Education, edited by Baidyanath Saraswati (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1998). (Click here for PDF download.)
- “Television Goes to School: The Impact of Video on Student Learning in Formal Education”: “This report focuses on key questions concerning the relationship of television to learning, and provides examples drawn from current television research to demonstrate television’s effect on student achievement.” From the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 2004. (Click here for PDF download.)
- “Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective”: Scholarly rationale for this field, by Suzanne Stokes. From the Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education, 2002, published by the College of Education at Idaho State University. (Click here for PDF download.)
- “The Visual Literacy White Paper”: Scholarly rationale for this field, by Dr. Anne Bamford, published in 2003. (Click here for PDF download.)
- “A Participatory Photography Toolkit for Practitioners and Educators”: “Compiled for the Cultural Agents Initiative, Spring, 2007 by Gretchen Segars,” this represents one tangible outcome of a conference titled “Visible Rights: Photography for and by Children/Youth, II,” held at Harvard University, December 14-15, 2007. (PDF download.) Or you can read it online.
