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55 CHAPTER 3 AN ACTION RESEARCH INTERVENTION TOWARDS OVER- coming theory resistance IN photojournalism students Jennifer Good theory resistance What follows is an account of a small-scale ACTION RESEARCH INTERVENTION de-signed to tackle a problem I have called theory resistance , among undergraduate photojournalism students . By this I mean the resistance often expressed by these students to theoretical reading and writing, encountered in the required Con-textual Studies unit of their course (also called the History and theory unit). This is often related to a perceived or artificial polarization of theory and prac-tice. In this context, practice denotes the act of taking photographs, as opposed to the critical reading and writing that supplements and underpins this activity. Many students express a belief that this reading and writing is at best alienating and difficult, and at worst, a waste of time or a distraction from the real work of photography (see also Gimenez and Thomas CHAPTER 1, Adams CHAPTER 4 this volume).
CHAPTER 3 AN ACTION RESEARCH INTERVENTION TOWARDS OVER-COMING “THEORY RESISTANCE” IN PHOTOJOURNALISM STUDENTS ... inasmuch as visual literacy is an aca-demic literacy, and as a practice that might usefully “cut through” the power relations around difficult language, inasmuch as it transcends verbal language. ...
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