Models for using photography in teaching: the Imaginando (Imagining) project

Abstract

The use of photography in research and teaching has been customary as of the second half of the 19th century and the importance of the pictures are justified with the collections which intellectuals and professionals have bequeathed to us. According to the guidelines of the European Department of Higher Education, the students’ motivation and their involvement in the learning processes is one of the most important goals. According to it, the “Imaginando” project has been developed as part of the Innovating Teaching Program of Madrid’s Complutense University, whose objective is to create a bank of photographs for use and aplicación by teachers, researchers and students. The approach, development and results of this program are presented to the scientific community in this article. A total of 258 students from 15 classes participated, with 2,384 photographs corresponding to 92 different subjects between 2011 and 2014.