ABSTRACT
Configurational validity is a theory for making meaning in a digital world, a world in which different authors use images stored in digital video to layer and reconstitute original documentation. Configurations are combinations or arrangements of disparate views that can be assembled and reassembled in any number of patterns. Educational researchers are no longer the only ones reporting on the lives of children and teachers; those operating within the walls of classrooms have begun producing their own stories to share with others. Students are reaching beyond their school walls to find their own audiences and sources of information. Students and their teachers are no longer afraid to peer beyond the fences that once separated them from other worlds. Verisimilitude becomes a goal for researchers, teachers, and parents as we reach beyond the old boundaries that once kept children and teenagers and their guardians inside school walls.
