ABSTRACT
In recent years as a qualitative researcher working in Australia I have used visual data sources captured through digital methods to understand the complexity of diverse student needs. Designing policy and curriculum studies, my interest lies in how difference manifests in education systems and, once inside schools, how understandings of diversity work amongst early career teachers, experienced teachers, students, policymakers and parents. I take up the challenge of doing research during the ‘seventh moment’ (Denzin & Lincoln, 2003, p. 3) of qualitative research, the moment that Denzin and Lincoln state is concerned with the ‘moral discourse, with the development of sacred textualities . . . critical conversations about democracy, race, gender, class nation-states, globalization, freedom and community’ (Denzin & Lincoln, 2003, p. 3).
