Chiselled Horizons : : a multi-cultural approach to visual literacy. / / Taina Brown, Alejandro Mieses Castellanos.

• TeilnehmendeR: Castellanos, Alejandro Mieses,; Brown, Taina,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Text and Image: Looking back in History with Contemporary Lenses /; Having Sex at a Car Crash: Visual Literacy in the Blink of an Eye /; Embodied Architectural Practice and Design Literacy /; Revealing the Layers of the Rocks: A Visual Reinterpretation for an Urban Historical Site /; Problems in the Visual Communication of Quantities in the Portuguese Press /; Synthesizing the Gaseous State The Role of Applied Programming on Theory /; The Iconography of Globalization /; She, on the Other Hand: The Crossroads of Feminist Scholarship and Visual Literacy /; Can Children’s Television Encourage Children’s Creativity? Israeli TV Producers’ Discourse /; Making Play-Based Learning Work: Integrating Life Skills Content into a Play-Based Summer Day Camp /; The Kings and Queens of Kagoma Gate: Children Making Their Moves out of Poverty /; Towards a Pedagogy of Amazement and Proximity: A Conceptual Model to Promote Critical and Creative Thinking at School /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 184888365X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Taina Brown, Alejandro Mieses Castellanos.

Shaping visual literacy has been at the forefront of contemporary discourse, as images have increasingly surpassed words in becoming the primary vehicles to persuade our emotions. Visually encoded domains of symbols and signs inform the educational, public and entertainment industries increasingly as an undifferentiated whole, aided by globalizing media forces in various forms. Whether top-down, peer-peer, one-to-may, or many-to-many, this volume attempts to derive sets of rules used to visually decode patterns present in certain media formats – press, cinema, television and maps, among others – and the place of the spectator in their respective dynamics. The topics discussed transition through various approaches to deconstruct mass media influences to engage critical thinking skills, and ending with a collection of chapters dedicated to exploring their effects upon children, and the capacity to be implemented to foster collaboration-based creative learning environments.