Search results for "visual literacy"

Interpretation of journalistic photographs as an instrument of visual literacy education

2016

Images are produced, used and distributed on an enormous scale. However, the skills of understanding, interpreting and using images as well as thinking and learning in terms of images are taken for granted, and thus, they are not sufficiently taught and developed, especially in higher education. The need for introducing visual literacy into the curriculum was identified in late 1960s, but no concrete guidelines have followed. This study proposes to apply interpretation of journalistic photographs as an instrument of visual literacy education. The main focus is on the image interpretation process and the kinds of meanings viewers apply to a photograph in the interpretation process. In each o…

To See More: A Model for Press Photograph Story Analysis

2013

AbstractThis article presents and evaluates an interdisciplinary model for press photograph story analysis. The research comprised two stages: (i) familiarizing study participants with the interpretation model and (ii) qualitative content analysis of the participants’ interpretations of samples of press photograph stories. The result is that the model could be used in the educational context to develop the skills of visual literacy among students. Although the study opens new directions in visual methodologies, the model requires further development.

Visual literacy practices in higher education: what, why and how?

2019

A bilingual five-year-old girl is trying to explain to her mother what she was doing at gymnastics class. Despite her best efforts to overcome the excitement, speaking a mixture of two languages an...

Infographics as a Reflective Assignment Method in Requirements Engineering e-Course?

2019

Our Work in Progress Paper in Innovative Practice Category focuses on how learners’ experience use of infographics in advanced level e-course on requirements engineering (RE). Infographics are visual representations of information in such a way that information can be easily understood at a glance. Most of the previous infographics studies have been conducted in the context of inquiry learning. To complement this research, we studied how learners experience use of infographics as a method for reflective assignment and hence if the usage of infographics supported conceptualization about RE. We adopted a qualitative content analysis approach, applying thematic network analysis to the data rec…

Käsitettävä taidehistoria : kuvalähtöinen malli taidehistorian opetukseen kuvallisen ilmaisun ammatillisessa perustutkinnossa

2011

What does it mean to be visually literate? Examination of visual literacy definitions in a context of higher education

2018

Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Get access Abstract Competency in visual literacy (VL) is crucial for effective visual communication, and thus for living and working in a visually saturated environment. However, VL across disciplines is still marginalized in higher education curricula. This tendency is partly caused by the lack of knowledge and agreement on what it means to be visually literate. This study juxtaposes and evaluates 11 VL definitions, selected as the most relevant for higher education practitioners and coined from 1969 (the first one) to 2013 (the most recent one). The study further proposes three lists of VL skills with themati…

Arrows and their modern versions: narrativity signalled by lines in data visualizations

2021

For creating and reading data visualizations, visual literacy is crucial. This article advances the knowledge about graphical variations and conventions related to the basic graphical element of th...

Rethinking Academic Literacies: Designing multifaceted academic literacy experiences for pre-service teachers

2013

This manuscript introduces a multidimensional framework for academic literacies to help instructors become more aware of different aspects of literacies and how they might be used to plan and orchestrate meaningful, multifaceted literacy experiences in their classes. More specifically, this broad framework for literacy and learning explicitly considers the overlapping role of argumentation, digital inquiry, collaboration, and innovation as they are applied to continuously evolving disciplinary literacy practices. The framework is applied to a course designed for pre-service teachers that integrated several aspects of academic literacies and offered some pedagogical guidelines to support the…

Imagining Africa and blackness in the Russian empire: from extra-textualarapkaand distant cannibals to Dahomey amazon shows – live in Moscow and Riga

2013

In the nineteenth century, Dahomey amazon shows, traveling circuses with menageries and ‘African villages,’ emerged as part of the transnational entertainment industry. This article extends the geography of this global model and generic system and its role in the visual politics of whiteness and blackness in a context outside the imperial colonization of Africa. The first sections examine a rise of visuality in the Russian imperial imagination of race, Africa and blackness through a ‘symptomatic’ reading of Aleksandr Griboedov's play Woe from Wit and Arkadii Averchenko's Death of an African Hunter. These are followed by a discussion of the Dahomey amazon shows in Moscow and their significan…

Vizuālizpratne mākslas muzeju pedagoģijā vidusskolai

2018

Maģistra darba “Vizuālizpratne muzeju pedagoģijā vidusskolai” pētījuma problēma ir vienotu kvalitātes kritēriju trūkums kultūras mantojuma apguves sekmēšanā, kad, līdzās skolai ir muzejpedagoģija. Šādā situācijā tiek veidoti vizuālizpratnes[ Vizuālizpratnes koncepts izstrādāts pēc Eiropas Vienotās valodu prasmes noteikšanas sistēmas (angl. Common European Framework of Reference; CEFR) parauga.] treniņi, ar nolūku strukturizēt mākslas izglītību. Pētījuma mērķis ir izstrādāt un aprobēt muzejpedagoģijas metodes, kas aktualizētu mākslas muzeja iespējas paaugstināt vidusskolēnu. Pētāmā grupa ir vidusskolēni. Pētījuma dizains: gadījuma pētījums (angl. a case study) un tā sasniegšanai lietotās met…