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

Publications and research into the value of incorporating instruction for visual literacy, especially in the 21^st century multimedia-rich environment is abundant.  
The works cited here are selected for their relevance to the research question of “how teachers are taught” about visual literacy.

References

Bleed, Ron. (2005) Visual literacy in higher education.   ELI Explorations. Retrieved March 27, 2007 from  http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI4001.pdf

Bolton, A. P. (2005). Determining a need for visual literacy in k-12 schools 7, teacher education  requirements.


Unpublished master's thesis, Mansfield University Mansfield, Pennsylvania.

Research to demonstrate the lack of and need for visual literacy education in teacher preparatory programs.

Box, C.A.  & Cochenour, J. (1995). Visual literacy: what do prospective teachers need to know?   In Annual conference of the International Visual Literacy Association;


imagery and visual literacy: Selected readings from the annual conference of the international visual literacy association.


Tempe, Arizona. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED380059)

Golubieski, M. R. (2003). Teaching for visual literacy: critically deconstructing the visual within a democratic education.  [abstract ]


Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Miami University. retrieved March 21, 2007 from Dissertation Abstracts database (AAT 3122148)


 http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3122148

Information literacy competency standards for higher education.(2006) American Library Association. Retrieved April 2, 2007 from http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html

International Visual Literacy Association. (n.d.) What is "Visual Literacy?" Retrieved March 27, 2007 http://www.ivla.org/index.htm

The term “Visual Literacy” was first coined in 1969 by John Debes, one of the most important figures in the history of IVLA. Debes’ offered (1969b, 27) the following definition of the term:
“Visual Literacy refers to a group of vision-competencies a human being can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences. The development of these competencies is fundamental to normal human learning. When developed, they enable a visually literate person to discriminate and interpret the visible actions, objects, symbols, natural or man-made, that he encounters in his environment. Through the creative use of these competencies, he is able to communicate with others. Through the appreciative use of these competencies, he is able to comprehend and enjoy the masterworks of visual communication.”
However, there are many more definitions of the term. In fact, each visual literacist has produced his/her own! Understandably, the coexistence of so many disciplines that lie at the foundation of the concept of Visual Literacy, thus causing and at the same time emphasizing the eclectic nature of it, is the major obstacle towards a unanimously agreed definition of the term.

INTASC principles. (n. d.) Interstate  New Teachers Assessment and Support Consortium. Retrieved February 2,  2007 http://cte.jhu.pds/resources/inteasc_principles.htm

Kovalik, C. (2007) Personal interview.

Kovalik, C. and  King, P. (n.d.) Visual literacy.  Retrieved March 29,  2007 http://www.educ.kent.edu/community/VLO/index.html

Leonard, D. (2002) Learning theories A-Z. Greenwood Press.

             Defines “literacy event”, “visual literacy” and thirty-eight other representative types of literacy, but does not define “information literacy.”

McCloskey, Robert. (1958). Caldecott Award acceptance.  In L. Kingman (ed.) Newberry and Caldecott medal books: 1956-1965 (188-193).  Boston: Horn Book.

Moore, M. and Dwyer, F. (Eds.) (1994) Visual literacy: a spectrum of visual learning. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

NCREL. (2000). Visual literacy.  e21^st Century Skills . Learning Point Associates. Retrieved  March 27, 2007 from http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/vislit.htm

              Provides a framework for planning for high-performance learning organizations using 21st-century skills and tools. 

 enGauge identifies six essential system wide factors critical to effective uses of technology for student learning.

Newhouse, J. J. (1976). Study of two instructional approaches for the acquisition of a high level of  visual literacy competency by undergraduate,

 
preservice teacher trainees. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

             "Visual literacy refers to a collection of skills, competencies, and behaviors in both visual languaging and in the visual environment of design representing creation,

             comprehension, interpretation, reading, knowledge, and perception within and between individuals."

O’Rourke, B. (1981) Nonprint media: whatever happened to visual literacy?. The English journal. 70:2 71-72 . Retrieved March 27, 2007. JSTOR http://www.jstor.org

Pascopella, A. (2007) Multimedia man. District Administration. Retrieved March 27, 2007 from http://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1096

Roblyer, M. D. (1988, January). Visual literacy: Seeing a new rationale for teaching with technology.


Learning and leading with technology : the ISTE journal of educational technology practice and policy, 26(2), 51-54.

Schrock, K. (2006) Visual literacy rubric. Retrieved  March 27, 2007 from http://www.kathyschrock.net/visual/rubric.pdf

           A reproducible rubric for evaluating student products.

Visual literacy K-8. (2006) Assessing visual literacy. Black Cockatoo Publishing PL 2007 Retrieved March 27, 2007 from http://k-8visual.info/

Provides simple criteria for assessing elements of visual literacy in student products.

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Debra Cox Rollins
Revised: June 21, 2007