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Direct linkWerner, Walter – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2002
Visual images within social studies textbooks need to be actively "read" by students. Drawing on literature from cultural studies, this article suggests three instructional conditions for teaching students to read visual texts. Agency implies that readers have the (1) authority, (2) opportunity and capacity, and (3) community for engaging in the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Social Studies, Visual Learning, Learning Modalities
Download full textWerner, Walter – International Journal of Social Education, 2004
Our social worlds are visually saturated. A feature of post-modern society is its relentless traffic in images, often borrowed from diverse times and places, and patched together in ever changing ways. This traffic serves commercial purposes, shapes identities, and increasingly stands in for reality itself. As a newspaper columnist noted, "most of…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Visual Learning, Textbooks, Social Studies
