ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the impact of film and photography which is employed as visual teaching methods within the specified sport-based social science provision in a British higher education context. It illustrates relevant reflective accounts and a range of students at the second and third levels of an undergraduate programme, primarily during the 2014–15 academic year. The chapter deals with some suggestions for higher education practitioners, drawing the reader's attention to specific relevant readings and reflective activities. It focuses on the use of images and film in higher education. Photo-ethnography was used in this educational context because it was considered to be an effective means of encouraging a student body to address, interpret and respond to some of the complex theoretical, experiential and contextual realities experienced in and presented across different locations from the field. Educational analysis of visual artefacts and media therefore should focus not simply on relative meanings, but also on their origins, uses and appropriations.