“It’s as if…” : Preschoolers Encountering Contemporary Photography
Rissanen, M.-J. (2017). “It’s as if…” : Preschoolers Encountering Contemporary Photography. International Journal of Education and the Arts, 18(28), 1-31. http://www.ijea.org/v18n28/v18n28.pdf
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This article reports a study on an encounter between preschoolers and contemporary
photography. The article has two aims: first, it elucidates preschoolers’ meaningmaking
when viewing photographs, and second, it investigates the possible benefits
of using contemporary photography as a forum for prompting children’s aesthetic
agency in early childhood education. This article is based on a qualitative case
study that draws on childhood studies, research in art education and visual cultural
studies. The data was produced in a photography workshop in a Finnish daycare
center in autumn 2014 during which children both viewed contemporary
photographic art and took photographs themselves. The article reports on
preschoolers’ accounts of contemporary photography studied by applying discourse
analytic thinking. In contrast to earlier research findings, the article elucidates
diversity and flexibility in the preschoolers’ accounts and their aesthetic agency
expressed in both individual and collective meaning-making.
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