Badania etnograficzne z elementami wizualnymi w kształceniu akademickim: możliwości i ograniczenia
Ethnographic studies containing visual elements in university teaching: opportunities and constraints

Summary/Abstract: The paper is based on ten years of author’s experience ofemploying qualitative methods in scientific research and is meantto present the utility of visual analysis for teaching social researchmethodology and for building up categories and hypotheses withthe use of images. The teaching process is illustrated with an exampleof a research project, completed with the participation of students,related to ways the time of school break is spent by pupils.The paper highlights the process of transition from empirical examplesto conceptually elaborated features of categories and, eventually,to their definitions as well as to theoretical theses. It is assumedin the paper that visual data could be used as legitimate empiricalmaterials to analyze and generate theoretical propositions. Suchdata could be combined with other data as a supplementary kindof data or could be used as primary kind of data, documents whichare ready to theoretical coding and analyses.

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