ABSTRACT

This chapter proposed to reflect and discuss the challenges and possibilities of incorporating visual culture into the field of comparative educational research from a post-foundational and hybrid perspective. These reflections sprang out of a single photograph, and yet this perspective goes beyond the mere call of using photos, drawings, and other images as fashionable accessories of the almighty text. A critical incorporation, whether through the utilization and inclusion of visual technologies to record data, engaging in the study of the visual aspects of educational and cultural situations, or using graphic images (photo-essays, cartoons, and films) in the process of communicating the results of an investigation, requires attention, yet is not limited to the phenomena of vision and images.