Visual data : : understanding and applying visual data to research in education / / edited by Jon E. Pedersen, Kevin D. Finson.

• TeilnehmendeR: Finson, Kevin D.,; Pedersen, Jon E., 1960-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The visual inputs we receive can be collectively called visual data. Precisely how one defines visual data is a key question to ask. That is one of the questions we asked each author who wrote a chapter for this book. If one comes to a decision with respect to what visual data are, then the next question becomes, “What are visual data like?” Then, “What do they mean?” As with any data, we can collect it and compile it, but if we don’t have some way to bring meaning it, it has little value to us. The answers may not be as straightforward as one might assume at the outset. The extent to which visual data permeates what we do as educators is such that it may be difficult to identify every discipline in which it emerges. In this book, we have tried to provide a forum for authors from a cross section of common disciplines: visual arts, English, literacy, mathematics, science, social science, and even higher education administration.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jon E. Pedersen and Kevin D. Finson -- Introduction / Jon E. Pedersen and Kevin D. Finson -- The Colorist’s Data© / Harold Linton -- Beyond the Wall of Text: Thinking Maps® as a Universal Visual Language for Transforming How We See Knowledge, Thinking and Learning / David Hyerle -- Participant-Generated Visual Data: Drawing Out Emotions / Kerri Kearney -- What Drawings Reveal About Perceptions of Scientists: Visual Data Operationally Defined / Kevin D. Finson -- Interpreting Drawings of Preservice Teachers / G.Nathan Carnes -- Visual Data: Process and Procedures for Educational Research in Social Studies / John J. Chiodo -- Visual Thinking, Visual Data, and Mathematics Education / Margaret L. Niess and André J. Mack -- Using Visual Data to Obtain Students’ Perceptions of Scientists and Studying Science / Charles R. Barman -- Seeing What We Know, Knowing What We See: The Involvement of Visual Literacy in Learning / Patricia N. Chrosniak -- Images as Visual Data in the World of English Teaching and Learning: A Look at the Effects of Student Produced Art and Interpretations of the Popular Media / Michael Angelotti and Mark Letcher -- Visual Data as Instructional Journey: Teacher and Student Experiential Learning at Sea / Adrienne Hyle.