The Anti-Selfie as a Trigger for Reflection in Teacher Training. An experience in collective inquiry through photographic practice

Taking into account the profusion of stereotyped images on social media and their impact on the construction of identity among young people, this paper examines the relevance of the selfie phenomenon as paradigmatic cultural production of adolescents and young people and the need to create critical and artistic alternatives in the training of teachers. In this regard, the anti-selfie is proposed as a self-referential symbolic creation built in opposition to the selfie and with a view to triggering artistic activity. This experience shows one of the possible routes through the visual and written accounts generated by students through the teacher's voice and demonstrates the suitability of contemporary artistic photography practice in teacher training. The introspective nature of the creations developed by the group has favoured individual and collective reflections on identity, a conscious artistic experience linked to media practices and the construction of new relational inertia.