Capturing Student Transformation From a Global Service-Learning Experience: The Efficacy of Photo-Elicitation as a Qualitative Research Method.
BACKGROUND
This article describes the use of photo-elicitation as a qualitative research method that captured transformational outcomes of baccalaureate nursing students who participated in a 10-day global service-learning experience in Nicaragua.


METHODS
All participants (N = 8) took photographs as a natural way of capturing moments, scenes, and events that occurred during their immersion experience. Four weeks after the trip, each student selected photographs that were a meaningful visual representation of their experience and participated in a semistructured interview conducted by one of the three faculty investigators.


RESULTS
Photo-elicitation captured the cultural, professional, and personal transformations of the students through a process that included "letting go," "confronting reality," and "coming to an understanding."


CONCLUSIONS
The use of photo-elicitation as a qualitative research method enabled a deeper, more poignant exploration of the impact of a global service-learning experience.
Rebecca
R
Kronk
Yvonne
Y
Weideman
Leah
L
Cunningham
Lenore
L
Resick
D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009527:Nicaragua; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010781:Photography; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D055815:Young Adult