Highlighting many of the author's own experiences as an artist and an art instructor, this paper laments the problem of visual ignorance among contemporary children and proposes a course in basic visual literacy. Such a course would teach form and content as interactive and synergistic concepts rather than as separate attributes. Students could…

Presents a model for systematizing the relationships between core content and educational objectives in British art and design classes. The model shows how the expressive, perceptual, analytic and cultural domains of art and design education are interrelated. Available from Carfax Publishing Company, P.O. Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 1RW…

Suggesting that a separate accreditation criterion for visual literacy proposed for journalism and mass communication schools is insufficient and inappropriate, this paper proposes that the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) develop and support a program promoting visual literacy as a curriculum standard.…