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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Taina Brown and Alejandro Mieses Castellanos -- Text and Image: Looking back in History with Contemporary Lenses / Mariann Larsen Pehrzon -- Having Sex at a Car Crash: Visual Literacy in the Blink of an Eye / Terryl Atkins and Wayne Egers -- Embodied Architectural Practice and Design Literacy / Matthew Dudzik and Marilyn Corson Whitney -- Revealing the Layers of the Rocks: A Visual Reinterpretation for an Urban Historical Site / Fang Xu , Yixiang He and Imad Khan -- Problems in the Visual Communication of Quantities in the Portuguese Press / Susana Pereira , José Azevedo and António Machiavelo -- Synthesizing the Gaseous State The Role of Applied Programming on Theory / Alejandro Mieses Castellanos -- The Iconography of Globalization / Víctor Manuel Quintero León -- She, on the Other Hand: The Crossroads of Feminist Scholarship and Visual Literacy / Taina Brown -- Can Children’s Television Encourage Children’s Creativity? Israeli TV Producers’ Discourse / Yuval Gozansky -- Making Play-Based Learning Work: Integrating Life Skills Content into a Play-Based Summer Day Camp / Fay Fletcher , Therese Salenieks and Alicia Hibbert -- The Kings and Queens of Kagoma Gate: Children Making Their Moves out of Poverty / Ann Fantauzzi , Marisa van der Merwe and Patricia Fennell -- Towards a Pedagogy of Amazement and Proximity: A Conceptual Model to Promote Critical and Creative Thinking at School / Clara Romero-Pérez and Luis Núñez-Cubero.