Students as Audience: Integrating Television Narrative into the High School Photography Curriculum

This study is a teacher practitioner inquiry documenting an evolving photography curriculum incorporating television narrative from 2004- 2014 in a newly-founded urban high school. It documents how the teacher and students investigated and produced artifacts of the high school culture they observed on television and the high school culture they were establishing at their school. The teacher's interests in curriculum, photography, audience research, and the high school narrative coincided with advancements in technology that were changing the definition of the media audience. This resulted in a unique student-centered curriculum.