Visualyzart Project – The Role in Education

2016

Beijing International Review of Education, 2020

In visual culture, people would like to perceive, express, and negotiate the meanings of social world visually so that the status of the visual has reached that of written word and narrative. Therefore, social researchers are motivated to develop visual method-ologies to examine the visual dimension of social worlds. According to them, the visual methodologies could generate richer information for us to understand social phenomena than the traditional quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Therefore, there is a burgeoning uptake of visual research methods in different fields of social sciences. Considering the ubiquity and importance of the visual in the world for education, the Beijing International Review of Education has organized this special issue to discuss some of the theoretical and methodological issues of visual research methods in educational research. Keywords visual methodology-visual culture-research method-photovoice-education research

M. Carmo (Ed.), Education and New Developments 2023, Vol 1 (pp. 115-119), 2023

Over the past two decades, we have been witnessing a veritable revolution in the ever-expanding visual and material culture studies. As a result of technological advances, visual texts have become the most common carriers of information and meaning as well as shapers of people's perception of reality throughout the world. To keep up with these current and future changes, new tools of visual literacy and critical thinking are needed for teachers and educators. We argue that implementation of such tools in teacher training programs, across all disciplines, is extremely important and can be used as catalyst to foster critical thinking processes and promote active and relevant teaching and learning. Moreover, with our unique approach, we offer a much-needed innovative perspective towards new and expanding visuo-material disciplines ranging from the myriad venues of design, through architecture to visual communication. Our study presents a tool developed for Design and Visual Culture curriculum taught in more than 250 high schools in Israel. This tool, we call "The Visual Code" aims to cultivate skills of deciphering visual codes through diverse visual texts. Our approach surpasses the classic and somewhat redundant focus on Art History and allows a much broader understanding of our visuo-material surroundings, ranging from smartwatches, through buildings and urban settings, to websites, apps, and digital service platforms. We suggest observing this rich world through three prisms, suitable for different types of training: semiotic observation, suitable for teaching an training students, teachers (on and pre-service) and pupils of all disciplines; hermeneutic understanding, triggering deeper observation, suitable for those specifically engaged in visual studies, such as art and design; and in-depth phenomenological interpretation suitable for practitioners, experts, and researchers in the various fields of art and design. During our research, qualitative questionnaires, and activity, as well as visual content analyses will be used in classrooms, teachers’ development courses as well as some academic courses to evaluate the impact of this tool on classroom discourse and learning processes.

This article argues that we are on the threshold of a new age for Visual Education and the function of Visuality in contemporary society and culture

2006

2013

Visualization is a possibility of perceiving and processing information in a graphical form. The advantage is the universal clarity regardless of the diversity of languages. Visualization enables quicken communication communication and creates a unified and comprehensive tool for everyday communication. This paper describes the importance of visualization as an essential element not only in acquiring knowledge of students, but also in lifelong learning.

seminar.net

Higher education throughout the world is undergoing various processes of change, pressurised by demands to provide education for greater numbers of students and to do so using a variety of models of increasing number and diversity. Among these changes, the use of new ...

South African Journal of Education, 2012

Visual literacy in education develops a student's visual literacy. Teaching visual literacy in the classroom means many things from film, dance, and mime through the use of diagrams, maps and graphs to children's picture books. The think-aloud strategy-typically used to model how adept readers make meaning from a text (demonstrated in the following short video)-can be adapted for "reading" a visual artifact. These tools can be used to "promote students' capabilities and skills" and create a new understanding of writing and learning in the classroom.

2012

With the ever increasing use of computers, visualization is used more and more. Powerpoint-fatigue is a well-known fact. There’s a general feeling that supportive technologies can be useful and effective in education, however those outcomes are often not achieved. Consequently people start to look for alternatives: movies, animations and infographics, have become common-practice. These are all powerful and valuable tools, also in education. It is very important though to ask what type of tool to use, for which kind of learning and to which purpose. In this article we attempt to derive a taxonomy which will help to make sound choices, so that visualization can be used effectively.