What is it?
Photographs can be used to stimulate discussion. They can be used in conjunction with other
methodologies in this book such as Back to Back. A lot of the following methods will also
work with a moving image.
Here are some other suggestions:
Display a range of images and/or cartoons relating to a particular issue (e.g. poverty) and ask for their immediate response to them. What is the photographer or cartoonist
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trying to say about the issue? Do pupils agree/ disagree? How do the various images make them feel?
Pupils could choose a photo (e.g. a favourite or a photo that makes them feel uncomfortable etc.) and then explain to their group why they have chosen it.
Pupils in groups are allocated an image or photograph and asked to put a caption underneath it (e.g. an illegal immigrant coming into the country). Groups could then compare and contrast their captions, discussing in particular how the choice of caption can elicit a variety of responses (e.g. some will focus on hope, others on despair, charity, shock etc.).
Give each group a photograph centred on a larger piece of paper (e.g. a photo highlighting a controversial issue). Ask pupils to question the photograph and to record their questions around the outside of the photo (e.g. What is the issue? Who is involved? What does that person standing to the side think? etc.). Questions can be used to stimulate further discussion. Alternatively, pupils might wish to generate ideas on an image by noting around it the thoughts, ideas and words which come into their heads whenever they see it for the first time.
Ask pupils to develop a role play or simulation based on a photo, image or cartoon. They can name individuals in a picture, invent relationships between them, imagine how each person feels, etc. They should then take on the roles and act out what they think is happening and what might happen next. Each pupil could choose a character from a photograph and take on the role. Other class members can then question them in role.
Pupils could take photos using a digital camera and incorporate them into collages, presentations, etc.
Photographs could be used for a Memory Game activity, in which pupils are shown a picture or cartoon which they must study in order to remember details. Pupils then write down or draw the details from the picture. This might be good for focusing pupils’ attention on extrapolating detail.
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