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Unearthing a Hidden Curriculum of Gendered Museum Languages through Critical Feminist Visual Discourse Analysis
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Darlene Clover; Kathy Sanford – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
This article explores the hidden gendered curriculum concealed in the texts, exhibitions and other structural devices of museums and what they teach visitors to see and think. Grounded in conceptualisations of culture, representation, and language, past feminist studies of museums and applying feminist visual discourse analysis (FVDA) we found…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Feminism, Visual Perception
What Makes Responses Prepotent for Young Children? Insights from the Grass-Snow Task
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Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Infant and Child Development, 2009
Understanding how responses become prepotent is essential for understanding when inhibitory control is needed in everyday behaviour. We investigated prepotency in the grass-snow task--in which a child points to a green card when the experimenter says "snow" and a white card when the experimenter says "grass". Experiment 1 (n =…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Child Behavior, Perceptual Development, Neuropsychology
"Reading" the Painting: Exploring Visual Literacy in the Primary Grades
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Williams, T. Lee – Reading Teacher, 2007
Traditional literacy practices and educational policymakers define reading as a process of vocabulary recognition and print-based decoding. This perspective is especially prevalent in the primary-grade literacy classroom. Yet, a growing movement sees literacy encompassing not only printed text, but a wide range of cultural, technological, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Visual Literacy, Literacy Education
Picturing Place: What You Get May Be More than What You See
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Card, Jane – Teaching History, 2004
Pictures abound in history classrooms and teachers use them in many different ways. They add--often literally--some colour to the past, helping us to imagine what different worlds were like. Pictures can be used quite legitimately in this way to fire imagination and stimulate interest. But we can also use them to develop important skills of visual…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Historical Interpretation, Visual Literacy, Visual Aids
Correlates of the Interpretation of Televised Drama: A Study of Young Children's Abilities.
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Corcoran, Farrel; Schneider, Michael J. – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Explores the social correlates of the interpretive abilities of young children to assess televised narratives. Demonstrates negative correlations between amount of television viewed by parents and children's television comprehension, indicating that the more parents viewed television, the worse their children performed on comprehension tests.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Information Processing, Interpretive Skills
Eight Dimensions of Visual Literacy.
Burbank, Lucille; Pett, Dennis W. – Instructional Innovator, 1983
This brief survey of successful visual literacy programs designed for students at the elementary and secondary level outlines projects to teach visual communication skills in Ohio, Indiana (Project Visual Understanding in Education/VUE), Virginia, Iowa (Media NOW), California, Canada, England, and Australia (Visual Education Curriculum Project).…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Photography