ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the visual research methods used for both studies, examples of the visuals submitted by the participants, and an explanation of how these visuals guided discussions about student affairs practice. The use of visual methods highlighted participants’ affinity for using visual mediums in their own professional learning process. In addition to reflexivity, participants also used visual media as symbols of their lived experience as student affairs practitioners. The visual method underscored the communal experience of sharing and learning inherent in the foundation of the student affairs professions in the first gatherings of deans of men and women, the professional associations of the present, and graduate preparation programs that use the cohort educational model. There are many examples that highlight the outcomes of student engagement using visual methods. Visual methods provide a valuable tool to understand the student affairs practitioner experience and aid in retention in the field.
