An attempt is made to discuss current models of information processing, learning, and development, thereby suggesting adequate methodological strategies for research in visual literacy. It is maintained that development is a cumulative process of learning, and that learning and memory are the result of new knowledge, sensations, etc. over a short…

This student manual is part of a kit that is designed to teach the use of visual language as a means of communication and self-expression. It provides space for note-taking and information the student needs to execute the practice projects assigned by the teacher. Three appendices in it offer a glossary of terms, bibliography, and brainstorming…

Behavioral objectives for visual literacy experiences are briefly delineated. The objectives concern skills related to: informative visual communication, persuasive and/or visual communication, general visual communication, visual concepts, and reading visual materials, as well as aesthetic and/or recreational skills. For example, the behavioral…

An update on multimedia resources about mass media for use with students or for teachers' own information. (DD)

Discusses visual and verbal literacy, how they relate to each other, and the role of visual literacy in communication among people. (JEG)

In interactive media, it is the spaces between the text that are as important to read as the text itself. Visual literacy is a vital form of reading in an increasingly pictorial world. This paper examines the grammar of visual literacy by analyzing the discourse of a group of adolescents and the way they interpret multi-layered, seriated, and…

A background review of the three major current approaches to the study and teaching of film set in the context of a specific course in film study. (CH)

A description of a visual communications program that involves students and teachers at all levels of a school system. (AK)

Activities involving photographs stimulate visual perceptual awareness. Children understand visual stimuli before having verbal capacity to deal with the world. Vision becomes the primary means for learning, understanding, and adjusting to the environment. Photography can provide an effective avenue to visual literacy. (Author)

The perceptual encounter with works of art, after all, is the core of aesthetic experience. How well such encounters succeed for people has to be a central concern of art education. (Author)

Contends that everyone must learn to read images because our culture is increasingly represented and perceived in visual terms. (Author/RK)

Discusses teaching visual literacy by teaching students how to decode advertising images, thus enabling them to move away from being passive receivers of messages to active unravelers. Shows how teachers can use concepts from semiotics to deconstruct advertising messages. (SR)