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Stewig, John Warren – 1989
A study explored how children respond to visuals and how a program of visual literacy enhances oral and written response to pictures. The first and fifth grades of two schools, one urban and one suburban, with different socioecomic groups of students, were chosen to participate in a 1-year program consisting of one visual literacy lesson per week.…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Classroom Research, Elementary Education
Stewig, John Warren – 1986
Visual literacy--seeing with insight--enables child viewers of pictures to examine elements such as color, line, shape, form, depth, and detail to see what relations exist both among these components and between what is in the picture and their previous visual experience. The viewer can extract meaning and respond to it, either by talking or…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Childrens Literature, Descriptive Writing
