Exploring Teacher-Student Relationships Through Visual Research Methodology
Abstract
Teachers experience many challenges in the classroom including stress, pressures related to time and workload, difficulty adapting to the needs of students, and issues with student behavior. Teacher-student relationships have been found to strongly influence classroom practice and shown to support student growth. Much of the current research focuses how TSR impact student factors, such as academics, behavior, and engagement (Murray & Malmgren, 2005; Quin, 2017). Research that does address the impact of TSR on teachers frequently relies on teacher self-reporting through quantitative surveys (Lavy & Bocker, 2017). The proposed presentation will focus on sharing an alternative to understanding the teacher’s perspective on TSRs through visual research methods. The visual collage is a means to allow teachers to reflect and organize their beliefs on a topic through the construction of a visual schematic or collage. Interviews that allow the teachers to think about how and why they structured their beliefs provides additional rich data to explore TSRs and classroom practice using a grounded theory framework (Harper, 2002; Pink, 2004). An example of how visual research methods can be used to explore how teachers view TSRs may be provided.
Keywords
teacher-student relationships, collage, elementary education
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Recommended Citation
Schellenberg, Melissa, "Exploring Teacher-Student Relationships Through Visual Research Methodology" (2018). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 29.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2018/2018/29
Exploring Teacher-Student Relationships Through Visual Research Methodology
Teachers experience many challenges in the classroom including stress, pressures related to time and workload, difficulty adapting to the needs of students, and issues with student behavior. Teacher-student relationships have been found to strongly influence classroom practice and shown to support student growth. Much of the current research focuses how TSR impact student factors, such as academics, behavior, and engagement (Murray & Malmgren, 2005; Quin, 2017). Research that does address the impact of TSR on teachers frequently relies on teacher self-reporting through quantitative surveys (Lavy & Bocker, 2017). The proposed presentation will focus on sharing an alternative to understanding the teacher’s perspective on TSRs through visual research methods. The visual collage is a means to allow teachers to reflect and organize their beliefs on a topic through the construction of a visual schematic or collage. Interviews that allow the teachers to think about how and why they structured their beliefs provides additional rich data to explore TSRs and classroom practice using a grounded theory framework (Harper, 2002; Pink, 2004). An example of how visual research methods can be used to explore how teachers view TSRs may be provided.
