The functions of Photography in the intercultural relations amongst immigrant families
Abstract
This paper presents the results and analysis of one of the objectives of the I+D+I projects approved by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain entitled “Audiovisual mediations in relationships between schools and immigrant families”. It was aimed to find the specific functions that the photographic images have in the relationships of a group of immigrant parents in the school to which their children attend. The data presented correspond to biographical, cultural and visual storytelling started in the classroom by the tutor group for these families, and continued in their personal and social contexts. We concluded that the photographs in the stories had the following functions: source of information, support analysis, reflection and debate, and finally as a means to communicate the experiential knowledge generated. In this sense, parents used three methods which we have called: self-referential denotative, connotative text-visual and sequential.
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