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Peer reviewedMuffoletto, Robert – Reading Online, 2001
Addresses a "critical" or "reflective" visual literacy. Situates visual representations and their interpretation (the construction of meaning) within a context that raises questions about benefit and power. Explores four main topics: the image as text; analysis and meaning construction; visual literacy as a liberatory practice;…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Postmodernism, Semiotics, Social Influences
Eriksson, Gillian – Gifted Education International, 1988
Visual literacy encompasses the ability to generate and make use of visual images to develop or clarify ideas, as a tool both for conveying information and for creative expression. The usefulness of visual thinking in study skills, problem solving, and living in an increasingly visual society is stressed. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Creative Expression, Elementary Secondary Education
