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Hartel, Jenna; Nguyen, Anh Thu – Education for Information, 2018
This paper demonstrates a dynamic, collaborative, and dialogic strategy for guiding students (and experienced researcher teams) through rudimentary forms of visual analysis using draw-and-write datasets. The approach identifies five sequential stages of the visual analysis process and further delineates twenty activities therein. Akin to the…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Dance, Folk Culture, Concept Formation
Bowen, Tracey; Evans, M. Max – Education for Information, 2015
The most common tools individuals use to articulate complex and abstract concepts are writing and spoken language, long privileged as primary forms of communication. However, our, explanations of these concepts may be more aptly communicated through visual means, such as drawings. Interpreting and analyzing abstract graphic representations is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Representation, Learning Processes, Freehand Drawing

Avgerinou, Maria; Ericson, John – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1997
Many have tried to define the concept of visual literacy (VL), but so far there is no consensus. Reviews the literature to develop a definition of VL and explores the parameters of VL, the movement and its aims, its educational significance, and the potential benefits of teaching VL. (PEN)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Definitions
Dake, Dennis M. – 1997
Using the metaphoric story device of two tribes, one that builds their culture around words and the other which depends primarily on visual perception, this paper suggests a distinctive mental paradigm at work within the society of artists, who pursue visual literacy through graphic ideation. The author discusses his education in art and his…
Descriptors: Artists, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation
Beauchamp, Darrell G., Ed.; And Others – 1991
This volume contains 53 articles grouped under five headings: (1) Research (14 papers on such topics as cognitive style and cognitive strategies, visual literacy training, and the impact of diagrams, type styles, and computer graphics on learning); (2) Theory (nine papers on such topics as the development of visual literacy concepts, cognition and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Graphics, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Neil L.; Montoya, Alicia L. – 1990
A review of literature on the use of wordless picture books to develop language skills is presented as background for the relatively brief description of a project in which wordless picture books were used with Latino children. The project is a collaborative one between Bloomsburg University, Kutztown University, and Thomas Ford Elementary School…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)