This chapter describes how the use of visual methods in the Day in the Life
(DITL) programme enables investigation of the multimodal, mobile, participants from
multiple perspectives. At the heart of the approach is the videoing of a whole day and
then later bringing a compilation into discussion with participants, itself also a site for
further data generation. The DITL approach has been deployed in various projects in
diverse communities around the globe. The project considered here as an exemplar,
worked with 10 thriving young children in transition to school in four countries. The
theme of “beavers as symbols of Canada” emerged in one young girl’s learning about
citizenship during a kindergarten whole class reading lesson in the morning, and
subsequently her discussions with her multi-generational family in the afternoon. We
explain how our explorations with visual data enable us to investigate the coconstruction
of knowledge and connections made across the events.
Keywords: DITL, Methodology, Multimodality, Video, Visual methods, Young
children.
