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Michelle Barsukov; Lauren Gatta; Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux; Jason Liang; Erica V. Lin; Kathryn Schmechel; Ximena Benavides – About Campus, 2024
The art of looking is a museum and art gallery teaching tool at the core of the Visual Thinking Strategies, a Harvard School of Education pedagogy initiated as an educational experiment for schools across the United States almost two decades ago. Today, a large number of schools implement this teaching method to increase student engagement in a…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Museums, Arts Centers, Art
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Hoecherl-Alden, Gisela; Fegely, Kathy – NECTFL Review, 2019
Integrating art (paintings, sculptures, photography, and other types of images) into second language (L2) instruction, can have a positive effect on language acquisition and developing intercultural understanding. As the instructor provides visual scaffolding, learners at all proficiency levels have the opportunity to engage more deeply with L2…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Language Proficiency, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Instruction
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Gross, Kelly M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Content literacy is necessary for students to be successful in meeting the National Core Arts Standards in the areas of creating, presenting, responding, and connecting. Art educators can with work special educators to support students with disabilities to develop disciplinary literacy using an adapted before-during-after (B-D-A) content literacy…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Art Education, Art Teachers, Special Education
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Dingler, Matt – Social Studies, 2017
Democratic societies require a citizenry skilled in argumentation. At present, the written argument maintains primacy among communicative modes. Because of its cognitive demands, written argumentation is often difficult to teach. A multimodal approach to writing instruction carries the potential to assist struggling learners. This article outlines…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Citizenship Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Persuasive Discourse
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Mackenzie, Kerry Burke – Art Education, 2012
The second semester of the new art education studio art course that the author teaches, which explores the possibilities of literacy learning through the visual arts, yielded an unexpected outcome. The author worked together with the art department chair to establish the fundamental criteria for this course and write the syllabus. The course is…
Descriptors: Literacy, Visual Literacy, Visual Arts, Integrated Curriculum
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Franco, Mary; Unrath, Kathleen – Art Education, 2014
This article demonstrates how Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) art discussions and subsequent, inspired artmaking can help reach the goals of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects (CCSS-ELA). The authors describe how this was achieved in a remedial…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Thinking Skills, Visual Arts, Classroom Techniques
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – English in Education, 2015
Explicit pedagogy that focuses on visual design and composition principles can affect students' responses to and understanding, interpretation and analysis of images, as well as the creation of their own visual representations. This article considers the why, the what, and the how of teaching various visual elements of art and design to students…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Semiotics, Art Education, Design
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Eckhoff, Angela – Young Children, 2010
Art-viewing experiences are an important part of the knowledge-building process and require careful planning and unique teaching strategies. One teaching strategy involves an activity most young children enjoy--playing games. In this article, the author explains ways to use games and conversations to introduce visual artworks to young children.…
Descriptors: Games, Young Children, Teaching Methods, Play
National Art Education Association, 2020
The arts disciplines (visual arts, music, theatre, and dance) merit and require formal study. Policy makers should support studies in the arts as core disciplines, as specified in the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)," the federal legislation that sets policy and appropriations for public education. The arts merit and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Early Childhood Education, Equal Education, Graduation Requirements
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Johnson, Margaret H. – Young Children, 2008
Including talk about art--conversing with children about artwork, their own and others'--as a component of visual art activities extends children's experiences in and understanding of visual messages. Johnson discusses practices that help children develop visual and verbal expression through active experiences with the visual arts. She offers 25…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Teaching Methods, Visual Literacy, Emergent Literacy
Wheeler, David L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2003
A small campus of an American university located in Vienna, Austria, which has typically focused on management courses, seeks to introduce a new kind of art program. Planners developed an art major with a sociological emphasis on visual culture. Students are given a chance to explore the images they are bombarded with every day and to gain new…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Paakspuu, Kalli – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2007
The visual public record of the early West represents a site of national, continental, hemispheric, and global configurations of territory, power, and imagination. The early photograph reproduces the contradictory encounters between industry, settlers, and Indigenous communities as a particular future is envisioned and contested. The…
Descriptors: Photography, Population Growth, International Relations, Indigenous Populations
Foss, Sonja K. – 1980
Observing that people are confronted with posters, billboards, video and other images more and more every day, this paper theorizes that the structure and principles of rhetoric can assist the public in understanding how visual images function and affect them. The paper presents a syllabus designed to assist rhetoric instructors in developing…
Descriptors: Course Content, English Instruction, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Sava, Inkeri – 1981
Although there is unanimity among educators that art and art education exert a positive influence on children, diverse philosophical, social, and psychological views and values have inhibited the formation of teaching goals and strategies that acknowledge the emotional and cognitive significance of visual art. The general aims of art education…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Affective Objectives, Art Education, Cerebral Dominance
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
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