Looking for the Missing Piece:
an exploration of the place for Visual Literacy Instruction in a Teacher Education Program
 

The Research Question:  who is teaching the teachers ?   

     Students completing the group project in EDCI 2020 surprised and delighted their instructor and this librarian with their reports.  Their projects were particularly impressive since many were first-time users of Microsoft Publisher and PowerPoint.

     Learning to apply production software  is one of the goals for EDCI 2020. But I also wondered if their visual reports could have been even more effective and if a specific aspect of information literacy--visual literacy--had been part of their teacher education program. 

       I searched for examples of how instruction for visual literacy was delivered to preparatory teachers. It was easy to find documented research about the need for teachers to  instruction about elements of visual literacy in instruction to their own (or eventual ) students. But the question--how are we  "teaching the teachers" to do this--remained unanswered?

Where does instruction for visual literacy reside within a teacher education program?
 

Conclusions  (The Missing Piece?)	Return to Main Page

Debra Cox Rollins
Revised: June 21, 2007