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Repeat Photography and Educational Research

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Qualitative research has been enhanced by the addition of visual methods (Banks 2007; Emmison & Smith 2000; Margolis & Pauwels 2011; Pink 2011; Rose 2007; Spencer 2010; Stanczak 2007; van Leeuwen & Jewitt 2001). Repeat photography, also called rephotography, entails the rephotographing of a visual phenomenon or a physical location in a specific temporal order to call attention to social or material change over time. Repeat photography derives from the natural sciences and has recently been applied to the social sciences, most notably in sociology (Klett 2011; Rieger 1996, 2011). It has not been widely used to date in educational research, although it has been applied pedagogically in the field of geography (Lemmons, Brannstrom & Hurd 2014). This approach can be considered the longitudinal analysis of visual methods.

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    Julianne Moss

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    Barbara Pini

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Metcalfe, A.S. (2016). Repeat Photography and Educational Research. In: Moss, J., Pini, B. (eds) Visual Research Methods in Educational Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137447357_9

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