photovoice

Photovoice as a visual-verbal strategy for studying contents and processes of social representations: A participatory project on sustainable energy

Photovoice is a participatory action-research strategy that has
been mainly adopted to give voice to “unheard” groups. In this
article, we adapted this strategy in a study on the social representations (SRs) of sustainable energy shared by young citizens
(ages 11–12) in Narni, Italy, a small urban center with a history
intertwined with sustainable energy issues. In particular, the
study suggests that photovoice could be useful to jointly examine verbal and visual components of social representations and to

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