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Cappello, Marva; Lafferty, Karen E. – Reading Teacher, 2015
Teachers can capitalize on the overwhelmingly visual nature of contemporary society for learning and teaching through integrating photography in their classroom instruction. In offering an alternative pathway for acquiring and expressing knowledge, photography has the potential to strengthen instruction across disciplines by drawing on multiple…
Descriptors: Photography, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Science, Grade 4
Moorman, Margaret M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Nurse educators are called upon to provide creative, innovative experiences for students in order to prepare nurses to work in complex healthcare settings. As part of this preparation, teaching observational and communication skills is critical for nurses and can directly affect patient outcomes. Visual thinking strategies (VTS) are a teaching…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
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Giorza, T. – Perspectives in Education, 2016
This qualitative study explores how a community of enquiry pedagogy in combination with a social semiotic approach to visual analysis influenced the changing knowledge and concepts of knowledge experienced by students in an undergraduate teacher education course. The art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa was the focus of our study and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Qualitative Research, Semiotics
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Subramaniam, Karthigeyan – Journal of Biological Education, 2014
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate prospective biology teachers' conceptions of teaching biology and identify how these conceptions revealed their strategies for helping their future students' learning of biology. The study utilized drawings, narratives and interviews to investigate the nature of the prospective biology…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Biology, Qualitative Research, Secondary School Science
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McLean, Cheryl A.; Rowsell, Jennifer – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2015
The article examines high school students' writing composition practices in multimodal instructional environments. We use Rosenblatt's transactional theory to look across the findings of 2 studies that blend traditional and digital modes of instruction in order to explore how modal switching can support students' reading and writing. We also…
Descriptors: Photography, High School Students, Writing (Composition), Instructional Innovation
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Azzarito, Laura; Simon, Mara; Marttinen, Risto – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
While ethnic-minority young people are increasingly defined as bodies "at disadvantage," marked as less fit or less healthy than the White "norm," the ways young people construct meanings around their bodies as a result of global health imperatives have received scant attention. The purpose of this participatory visual research…
Descriptors: Whites, Race, Human Body, Teaching Methods
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Prior, Lori Ann; Willson, Angeli; Martinez, Miriam – Reading Teacher, 2012
The literary element of character is critical to literary meaning-making, and in picturebooks images provide information important to understanding characters. This manuscript shares results of an investigation that explored the kinds of pictorial information young children use to gain insights into the characters and provide practical ways…
Descriptors: Literacy, Visual Literacy, Personality, Literary Devices
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Witteveen, Loes; Put, Marcel; Leeuwis, Cees – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2010
This paper presents an evaluation of the visual problem appraisal (VPA) learning environment in higher education. The VPA has been designed for the training of competences that are required in complex stakeholder settings in relation to sustainability issues. The design of VPA incorporates a diversity of instruction strategies to accommodate the…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Teaching Methods, Reflection, Simulation
Presmeg, Norma C. – 1993
Imagery use in high school mathematics classrooms was studied. A visual image was defined as a mental scheme depicting visual or spatial information, but this definition was not spelled out to teachers or students, in order to learn what they meant by the concept. Subjects were 13 high school teachers and 54 of their students interviewed over 3…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Generalization, High School Students
Hakerem, Gita; And Others – 1993
The Water and Molecular Networks (WAMNet) Project uses graduate student written Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) computer simulations of the molecular structure of water to assist high school students learn about the nature of water. This study examined: (1) preconceptions concerning the molecular structure of water common among high…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation