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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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Pettersson, Rune – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
Many researchers from different disciplines have explained their views and interpretations and written about visual literacy from their various perspectives. Visual literacy may be applied in almost all areas such as advertising, anatomy, art, biology, business presentations, communication, education, engineering, etc. (Pettersson, 2002a). Despite…
Descriptors: Definitions, Visual Literacy, Curriculum Development, Multimedia Materials
Weigmann, Beth A. – 1993
The basic understandings that could be used to develop a foundation for holistic literacy are discussed. One way to establish this foundation for primary students is by developing understandings of science process skills using the elements and vocabulary of visual literacy. By providing opportunities to integrate oral and visual skills and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students
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Callow, Jon – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
The inclusion of visual images in current educational literacy discussions tends to contextualise them within more semiotic, socio-critical and textually focussed theoretical traditions. These particular traditions privilege and emphasise the structures and "language-like" aspects of visual images, and include the broader social and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Aids, Visual Literacy, Nonverbal Communication
King, Edith W. – 1974
This paper describes the Integrated Studies Project, a middle school curriculum project developed at Keele University in England, and designed to integrate the social sciences and the expressive arts. The described materials are available from Oxford University Press. These consist of large fold-out sheets with information, photographs, drawings,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Organization
Johnson, Addie M. – 1998
This article discusses how the utilization of the visual capabilities of a World Wide Web site can enhance the development of teacher curriculum design employed in graduate level education courses. In using these Web sites, teachers have an opportunity to peruse numerous visual samples as a basis for creating integrated and interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study