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2008 Confronting Concerns
Accomplishments
UNICEF Focus group
June 26, 2008
In Attendance were Erica Johnson, Roshelle Wickham, Brittani Anderson, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) researcher Cathryn Magno, Youth Coordinator Tene Howard and Program Director Kathleen Kanet.
During this session, we met with Cathryn Magno, a researcher working with UNICEF to examine the ways that they use images in their publications. Cathryn led us through an activity where we recorded our initial reactions to pictures of girls in different parts of the world in various educational settings. After viewing each picture, we quickly recorded our reactions to three questions. After viewing about 9 pictures, we came together and had a discussion about our reactions to the pictures. We shared what we thought was happening in the pictures as well as the story this picture told about girls' education. It was very interesting for everyone to take part in this discussion, especially because we were all women and had different experiences with education and in different educational settings. The four young women reflected afterwards that it was interesting for them to think about what education might be like in another country and that all girls do not have access to the same resources for the education that they do. We also had a great discussion on the power of images and their ability to tell a story. We reflected that sometimes we may get an idea of what a story is about from the images, but if the image doesn't portray and accurate scene, it may skew the way we understand the story. Overall, we were able to have a great discussion that opened our minds to new ways of viewing pictures and to the issue of girls education across the world.
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