Reading the world – teaching visual analysis in higher education. Issue 1 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abas, Suriati
• Is Part Of: Journal of visual literacy. Volume 38:Issue 1/2(2019)
• Page Start: 100
• Page End: 109
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Visual literacy -- visual analysis -- visual pedagogy -- higher education -- interpretation; 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.2019.1574120
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1051-144X

Abstract

Abstract: 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.