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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
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Reading the World -- Teaching Visual Analysis in Higher Education
Journal of Visual Literacy, v38 n1-2 p100-109 2019
This article provides a practical guide for teaching visual analysis to university students. By adapting Serafini's curricular and pedagogical framework for teaching multimodal representations to incorporate self-reflection, I evince how visual analysis can be taught in a writing course and similar introductory courses. Using a photograph that juxtaposed Edvard Munch's iconic image of "The Scream," I aim to develop students' visual literacy (VL) skills in terms of generating interpretations and translating the visual-to-verbal for meaning-making. Given the increasing dominance of visual representations, VL is fundamental to meet contemporary needs and thus, should not be marginalized in higher education.
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Introductory Courses, Writing Instruction, Photography, Painting (Visual Arts), Interpretive Skills, Skill Development, Visual Aids, Essays, Reflection, Learning Processes, Required Courses, Public Colleges, Cooperative Learning, Undergraduate Students, Current Events, War, Foreign Countries, World Problems
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Palestine
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