Enhancing visual literacy of students through photo elicitation. Issue 1 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chai, Choon-Lee
• Is Part Of: Journal of visual literacy. Volume 38:Issue 1/2(2019)
• Page Start: 120
• Page End: 129
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: visual literacy -- photo elicitation -- active learning -- higher education; Visual literacy -- United States -- Periodicals; Visual learning -- United States -- Periodicals; Visual communication -- United States -- Periodicals; Visual learning; Visual literacy; United States; Periodicals; 302.22605
• DOI: 10.1080/1051144X.2019.1567071
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1051-144X

Abstract

Abstract: In this photo elicitation assignment, each student must take, select, and interpret a picture about a social issue that he/she has learned about in class. The student must then craft either a sensory poem, or answer the SHOWeD questions as designed by Shaffer and modified by Wang, which facilitates the student's interpretation of the picture. As a teaching tool, photo elicitation offers a range of pedagogical values; it enables visualization of students' everyday experiences, elicits personal meaning and emotion, promotes real-life and active learning, engenders critical consciousness, and enhances the visual literacy of students in terms of their visual "writing" and "thinking" skills.