Diversities: Photoetnography, Coeducation and Moral Vulnerability

Abstract

How to address moral vulnerability on the basis of effective-sexual orientation or gender identity in the context of higher education? Di(ver)sidades faces this challenge as a coeducational action integrated into the experience of responsible research and innovation FotoC3: citizenship, creativity and care and, it has been renewed annually since the 2013/14 academic year. This action combines the use of collaborative photography, teaching innovation, ethnographic inquiry, cultural creation, and heritage education and is supported by three methodological practices of participatory action-research: Photovoice, the Project Based Learning and the Service-Learning. Also, it promotes the continual improvement of its management processes, adopting the ISO 9000:2015 standard. All these to be inserted into the socio-educational context of the University of Salamanca. Currently, Di(ver)sidades obtains results in three specific dimensions: the implementation of good practices in teaching innovation and social responsibility; the creation and dissemination of collective cultural content, and the development of the “Di(ver)sidades Collection” as part of the Network of Scientific Collections of the University of Salamanca.