The photobook as an ecosocial learning: an arts-based research in teacher training
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This study explores the pedagogical potential of the photobook as an artistic and didactic resource to promote a critical and meaningful understanding of history in primary education. Using a constructivist and socio-critical framework, the project integrates contemporary ecosocial challenges—such as migration, climate crisis, gender inequality, and urban overpopulation—with different historical periods. The photobook functions as both a visual narrative and a reflective device that allows students to establish temporal and emotional connections between the past and the present. A qualitative analysis was carried out using the SWOT (DAFO) methodology and the software Atlas.ti to examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats perceived by future teachers during the creative process. The findings highlight the photobook as a powerful strategy for fostering aesthetic experience, critical citizenship, and historical thinking through art education. This work contributes to the field of art and design education by proposing an integrative approach that bridges visual arts, environmental awareness, and ecosocial studies.
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