Bricolage as a Text Analysis Tool
摘要
This chapter explores the application of a bricolagebricolage approach to analysing picture bookspicture books and multimodalmultimodal textsmultimodal texts, with a focus on their pedagogicalpedagogical potential for history education centred on peacepeace and reconciliationreconciliation. Extending beyond traditional mixed-methods designs, bricolage synthesises interdisciplinary methodologies and theoretical frameworks to enable a nuanced investigation of texts' historicalhistorical, visualvisual, and narrativenarrative dimensions. Bricolage integrates methodologies such as critical discoursediscourse analysiscritical discourse analysis, visual analysis techniques, and pedagogical theories. This iterative and flexible strategy emphasises responsiveness to evolving research contexts to guide inquiry. By addressing complexities through methodological, theoretical, interpretive, political, and narrativenarrative dimensions, bricolagebricolage fosters deep engagement with multimodalmultimodal textsmultimodal texts. The project reveals how picture bookspicture books serve as social practice, reflecting and shaping historicalhistorical and culturalcultural discourses. It highlights the critical importance of visualvisual and multiliteraciesliteracies in fostering informed, critical, and participatory citizenship in a digital age. This research underscores bricolage as a dynamic, rigorous, and adaptive methodologymethodology for interdisciplinary studies, advancing understanding of the interplay between language, imagery, and education in shaping historical consciousness and fostering reconciliationreconciliation.