Evidence was gathered from an Australian long day care project ‘Educators of babies and toddlers; developing a culture of critical reflection’. A cultural–historical theoretical approach was sensitively interwoven with visual methodology. The innovative combination of visual methodology and cultural–historical theory involved the creation of three Collaborative Forums. The Collaborative Forums aimed for participants to collectively unravel their pedagogical knowledge. The visual methodology involved research tools such as video observations, images, collaborative drawings and group interview transcripts. The research tools of mapping promises and collaborative drawing provided opportunity to imagine and map educators’ pedagogical practices. The act of collaborative drawing was an improvised and imagined activity that strengthened understanding of the multiplicity of educators’ promises. The collaborative drawing elicited discussion that created an expansive collective agenda. Collaborative drawing offered an innovative research tool with ongoing capacity to generate expertise for imagining ideal practices for infant–toddler research. The findings suggest that collaborative drawing with educators is a creative and imaginative tool for expanding the infant–toddler research agenda.

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合作绘图：一种检查婴幼儿教学实践的创新工具

证据来自澳大利亚的一个长日托项目“婴幼儿教育者；发展批判性反思的文化”。一种文化历史理论方法与视觉方法学紧密地交织在一起。视觉方法论与文化历史理论的创新结合涉及了三个协作论坛的创建。协作论坛旨在让参与者集体阐明他们的教学知识。视觉方法涉及研究工具，例如视频观察，图像，协作绘图和小组访谈笔录。映射承诺和协作绘图的研究工具为想象和映射教育者的教学实践提供了机会。协作绘画的行为是一种即兴的和想象中的活动，它增强了对教育者承诺多样性的理解。合作图纸引发了讨论，并产生了广泛的集体议程。协作绘图提供了一种创新的研究工具，具有不断发展的能力，可以为想象婴儿研究的理想实践提供专业知识。研究结果表明，与教育工作者的合作绘画是扩大婴幼儿研究议程的一种创造性和富有想象力的工具。