Pat Thomson is Professor of Education and Director of Research in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK. She is a former school principal of disadvantaged schools in Australia.

'This is a timely, very important contribution to the growing fields of pupil participation and visual research with and on young people. It explores and extends an increasingly vibrant and significant field of enquiry in ways which engage our imagination and excite us to action. Theoretically sophisticated and accessibly written, it will quickly establish itself as a key text for professionals and academics alike.'Professor Michael Fielding, Institute of Education, University of London, UK'...filled with useful techniques for researchers in any discipline studying children.'Eric Margolis, Arizona State University, USA, and President of the International Visual Sociology Association

• 1. Introduction 2. Teaching Children to Use Visual Research Methods 3. Gender and Being ‘Bad’: Inner-City Students’ Photographs 4. ‘Play in Focus’: Children Researching their own Spaces and Places for Play 5. Researching Children’s Narratives Creatively through Drawings 6. Visual Research with Young People to Explore Sex and the Media 7. Video Diaries 8. Looking through the Lens of a Camera in the Early Childhood Classroom 9. Visual Voice in Classrooms; Practical, Ethical & Methodological Issues 10. Visual Narrative and Diversity in our Classroom: Digital Readings of Policy 11. 'Voice' and Video: Seen, Heard and Listened to? 12. Dialogues with Artists: Getting to Grips with Children’s Self Portraits 13. Ethics & Visual Research 14. The Need for a New Ethics

Pat Thomson is Professor of Education and Director of Research in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK. She is a former school principal of disadvantaged schools in Australia.

'This is a timely, very important contribution to the growing fields of pupil participation and visual research with and on young people. It explores and extends an increasingly vibrant and significant field of enquiry in ways which engage our imagination and excite us to action. Theoretically sophisticated and accessibly written, it will quickly establish itself as a key text for professionals and academics alike.'Professor Michael Fielding, Institute of Education, University of London, UK'...filled with useful techniques for researchers in any discipline studying children.'Eric Margolis, Arizona State University, USA, and President of the International Visual Sociology Association

• 1. Introduction 2. Teaching Children to Use Visual Research Methods 3. Gender and Being ‘Bad’: Inner-City Students’ Photographs 4. ‘Play in Focus’: Children Researching their own Spaces and Places for Play 5. Researching Children’s Narratives Creatively through Drawings 6. Visual Research with Young People to Explore Sex and the Media 7. Video Diaries 8. Looking through the Lens of a Camera in the Early Childhood Classroom 9. Visual Voice in Classrooms; Practical, Ethical & Methodological Issues 10. Visual Narrative and Diversity in our Classroom: Digital Readings of Policy 11. 'Voice' and Video: Seen, Heard and Listened to? 12. Dialogues with Artists: Getting to Grips with Children’s Self Portraits 13. Ethics & Visual Research 14. The Need for a New Ethics

Pat Thomson is Professor of Education and Director of Research in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK. She is a former school principal of disadvantaged schools in Australia.

'This is a timely, very important contribution to the growing fields of pupil participation and visual research with and on young people. It explores and extends an increasingly vibrant and significant field of enquiry in ways which engage our imagination and excite us to action. Theoretically sophisticated and accessibly written, it will quickly establish itself as a key text for professionals and academics alike.'Professor Michael Fielding, Institute of Education, University of London, UK'...filled with useful techniques for researchers in any discipline studying children.'Eric Margolis, Arizona State University, USA, and President of the International Visual Sociology Association

• 1. Introduction 2. Teaching Children to Use Visual Research Methods 3. Gender and Being ‘Bad’: Inner-City Students’ Photographs 4. ‘Play in Focus’: Children Researching their own Spaces and Places for Play 5. Researching Children’s Narratives Creatively through Drawings 6. Visual Research with Young People to Explore Sex and the Media 7. Video Diaries 8. Looking through the Lens of a Camera in the Early Childhood Classroom 9. Visual Voice in Classrooms; Practical, Ethical & Methodological Issues 10. Visual Narrative and Diversity in our Classroom: Digital Readings of Policy 11. 'Voice' and Video: Seen, Heard and Listened to? 12. Dialogues with Artists: Getting to Grips with Children’s Self Portraits 13. Ethics & Visual Research 14. The Need for a New Ethics