5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

We are interested in mapping how images are used in research that examines educational experiences that promote collaborative and democratic forms of teaching and learning at all levels of school education and in socio-community learning spaces. In contexts such as the current one, where anti-democratic forms of organization of political and cultural life are expanding at an accelerated pace, it is significant to know and analyze practices, meanings and discourses of educational actions that promote forms of horizontality, reciprocity and/or mutuality in different moments of the decision-making process about what is taught, how it is taught, and for what purpose. The use of images could be part of different types of epistemological, theoretical and methodological strategies to interpret evidence.
These educational actions can be located in nurseries, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, technical or undergraduate training institutes as well as in universities or other types of organizations. We are interested in research that has studied them from the point of view of the processes of democratization of the teaching-learning space and has done so using images of any kind, either during and/or after the fieldwork (to record and/or produce evidence or to disseminate results). The images can be drawings, photographs, videos, collective maps, collages, audio-diaries, scrap books, for example. We would like to know how the images were used and what were the advantages, disadvantages and challenges to make visible participatory and collaborative logics as well as tensions and disputes with other pedagogical and social logics.