Photo Collages and Near-Peer Interviewing: Scaffolding Data Collection in Youth Participatory Action Research Projects With Children

In this brief report, we describe photo collages generated by youth researchers as a photo-elicitation technique in participatory action research focused on food (in)security. The approach was implemented with 11 high school students over the course of one semester an agriscience class at K-12 alternative school. Student used data collection scaffolds within near-peer interviews elementary to prompt sharing about experiences and inequality. This report illustrates how youth-led are useful engaging co-creators knowledge scaffolding capacity for research.