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Melissa Ballesteros-Mejía; María Angélica Madero – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2024
Images are central to our understanding of and learning about our world. We argue that visual training needs to be improved in the higher education system to enhance the potential of visual thinking to mediate productively our relationship with the context we inhabit. Initiatives from the social sciences and humanities since the end of the twenty…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Visual Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2021
During a classroom-based study, Grade 4 students were provided with multiple opportunities to develop their visual meaning-making skills and competences, as well as their aesthetic understanding of and critical thinking about multimodal texts. Intentionally designed instruction during the research included a range of activities focused on specific…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Science Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Literacy
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Sindhwani, Shyamli; Minissale, Gregory; Weber, Gerald; Lutteroth, Christof; Lambert, Anthony; Curtis, Neal; Broadbent, Elizabeth – Education Sciences, 2020
The ability to analyse aspects of visual culture--works of art, maps or plans, graphs, tables and X-rays--quickly and efficiently is critical in decision-making in a broad range of disciplines. Eye tracking is a technology that can record how long someone dwells on a particular detail in an image, where the eye moves from one part of the image to…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Literacy, Attention
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Linford, Kyle; Oltman, Kathleen; Daisey, Peggy – Grantee Submission, 2016
(Purpose) The purpose of this paper is to describe visual literacy, an adapted version of Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS), and an art-integrated middle school mathematics lesson about scientific notation. The intent of this lesson was to provide students with a real life use of scientific notation and exponents, and to motivate them to apply their…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Henderson, Lynette K. – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2015
This article presents a pilot interdisciplinary project for middle-school students including visual literacy, studio art, English-language literacy, geology and the study of indigenous groups. The location of the pilot was in the upper Midwest, along the Mississippi river bluffs of St. Paul, Minnesota. English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) students…
Descriptors: Art, Geology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects
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Franco, Mary J.; Unrath, Kathleen – Art Education, 2015
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate how purposeful and substantive visual art experiences might support the literacy learning of elementary-aged boys. The overarching research question that guided this exploration was: What happens when Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) art discussions and related artmaking are infused into a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Males, Visual Arts, Literacy Education
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Blummer, Barbara – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2015
The ubiquitousness of images in the digital era highlights the importance of individuals' visual communication skills in the 21st Century. We conducted a literature review of visual literacy initiatives in academic institutions to illustrate best practices for imparting these skills in students. The literature review identified five categories of…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Best Practices