A través de sus ojos. Etnografía visual en un centro educativo de la periferia urbana

Photography as a methodological tool allows working in collaboration with the informants in a process of meaning construction and deconstruction and in a joint search for ways of representation through this tool. From the conviction that photography is a communication tool with which we represent ourselves socially, I suggest a methodology in which the informants take the photographic camera and extract the more significant moments and places of their life and their environment in a shared working process with the researcher. This has been the methodology used in the field research, a Shared Schooling Unity, educational resource addressed to youngsters expelled from their reference educational centers. This center is located in the outskirts of Tarragona, an area built mainly due to the development of the petrochemical industry.