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Ernesto Peña – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2025
Silos are an undeniable and unavoidable reality of knowledge production, particularly within academia. For those who choose to navigate between disciplinary boundaries, as opposed to within them, it is not uncommon to find similar concepts developing in parallel in two or more completely different fields of study. These silos tend to be not just…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Educational History, Educational Trends, Educational Research
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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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Brumberger, Eva – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2019
The multi-disciplinarity of visual literacy has become even more pronounced in an age of digital information. What shared questions do we ask in our research, where does our work intersect and how do those intersections define the field of visual literacy? Through an analysis of the articles published in the "Journal of Visual Literacy"…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Educational Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Journal Articles
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Ohlberg, Jason – Journal of Dance Education, 2020
As a dance practitioner in education, Jason Ohlberg is interested in how artistic inquiry through interdisciplinary, student-centered processes can engage dancers beyond traditional choreographic practices and offer deeper contexts for learning and growth. The research described in this article began through an inter-institutional initiative,…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Undergraduate Students, Museums, Advocacy
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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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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
Hatcher, Sarah – Online Submission, 2012
This guide is intended for all teachers who wish to enhance their curriculum by incorporating objects and photographs into their lesson plans. Kindergarten and elementary, middle, and high school classrooms can all benefit from expanded use of these materials. The guide can be used across a range of subject areas including history, community,…
Descriptors: Classrooms, Curriculum Enrichment, Visual Aids, Photography
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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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McTigue, Erin; Croix, Amanda – Science Scope, 2010
While diagrams make the text more visually appealing and provide an image of the text, they also do much more. Subsequently, the authors designed a series of lessons for students to discover the many purposes of graphics in science. A particular utility of these interdisciplinary lessons is that they are used with any science text featuring visual…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Literacy, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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Thomas, Elizabeth; Place, Nancy; Hillyard, Cinnamon – College Teaching, 2008
This interdisciplinary analysis examines the use of visual images in the college classroom. The three authors--a community psychologist, a literacy specialist, and a mathematician--share examples and critical reflections that illuminate the strengths and challenges in using this medium to meet teaching and learning goals. The authors highlight one…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Stimuli, Visual Literacy, Charts
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Burke, Anne; Peterson, Shelley Stagg – English Journal, 2007
Anne Burke and Shelley Stagg Peterson argue that "picture books offer a medium for teaching visual and critical literacy across the curriculum." To support this idea, they describe a multidisciplinary unit on World War II that pushes high school students to utilize visual and print literacies to analyze, comprehend, and relate to public events and…
Descriptors: War, Picture Books, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literacy Education
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
Wittler, Janette Marie – 1983
The act of composition is based on perception, selection, and arrangement in time and space of what is seen. How the world is seen depends on experience, memory, sensibility, discriminative powers, sexual identity, and cultural and historical contexts. Students can learn to understand how their personality affects what they see by maintaining…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Multimedia Instruction, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids
Holdstein, Deborah H. – Writing Instructor, 1984
Describes using Hitchcock's work in the writing class to promote attention to detail, careful preparation for writing and revision, and stylistic concreteness. (CRH)
Descriptors: Film Criticism, Film Study, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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