Implementing Photovoice in School-based Evaluations: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Benefits
This article explores the use of photovoice as an evaluation method in a high school summer bridge program (the Innovators program). Photovoice is a participatory research method where participants take photographs and share narratives in response to prompts that solicit their perspectives and expe...
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This article explores the use of photovoice as an evaluation method in a high school summer bridge program (the Innovators program). Photovoice is a participatory research method where participants take photographs and share narratives in response to prompts that solicit their perspectives and experiences. With the goal of promoting critical dialogue between participants, photovoice method leverages the power of emic knowledge and visual representation to influence programmatic change. We explain how photovoice was implemented in a K-12 mixed methods evaluation and the practical and ethical considerations that evaluators must weigh. Findings indicate that photovoice not only enhances participant engagement but also serves as a valuable tool for program evaluation, yielding rich, qualitative data that traditional methods may overlook. Drawing on a multi-year evaluation of the Innovators program, the article contributes to the growing literature on photovoice by examining what the method means for young participants, in addition to describing the photovoice design and implementation processes.
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| spelling | doaj-art-4c0a357a160b4beba1912081bf0b96472025-08-20T04:02:27ZengThe Evaluation Center at Western Michigan UniversityJournal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation1556-81802025-08-01215110.56645/jmde.v21i51.1179Implementing Photovoice in School-based Evaluations: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging BenefitsMostafa Hanafy0Melissa Goodnight1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1106-6665Valerie O'Brien2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5857-6385University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign This article explores the use of photovoice as an evaluation method in a high school summer bridge program (the Innovators program). Photovoice is a participatory research method where participants take photographs and share narratives in response to prompts that solicit their perspectives and experiences. With the goal of promoting critical dialogue between participants, photovoice method leverages the power of emic knowledge and visual representation to influence programmatic change. We explain how photovoice was implemented in a K-12 mixed methods evaluation and the practical and ethical considerations that evaluators must weigh. Findings indicate that photovoice not only enhances participant engagement but also serves as a valuable tool for program evaluation, yielding rich, qualitative data that traditional methods may overlook. Drawing on a multi-year evaluation of the Innovators program, the article contributes to the growing literature on photovoice by examining what the method means for young participants, in addition to describing the photovoice design and implementation processes. https://jmde.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/1179Photovoiceschool-based evaluationhigh schoolqualitative methodequitysummer-bridge program |
| spellingShingle | Mostafa Hanafy Melissa Goodnight Valerie O'Brien Implementing Photovoice in School-based Evaluations: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Benefits Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation Photovoice school-based evaluation high school qualitative method equity summer-bridge program |
| title | Implementing Photovoice in School-based Evaluations: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Benefits |
| title_full | Implementing Photovoice in School-based Evaluations: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Benefits |
| title_fullStr | Implementing Photovoice in School-based Evaluations: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Benefits |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implementing Photovoice in School-based Evaluations: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Benefits |
| title_short | Implementing Photovoice in School-based Evaluations: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Benefits |
| title_sort | implementing photovoice in school based evaluations navigating challenges and leveraging benefits |
| topic | Photovoice school-based evaluation high school qualitative method equity summer-bridge program |
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