Visual Literacy in Higher Education

Paper Summary:

The paper examines the literature to determine the meaning of visual education and its importance as well as the way that it impacts on higher education in terms of teaching styles, material and its outcomes. The paper also explores the way that visual literacy affects the developments and creation of school curriculum. The paper concludes that visual literacy is something that is becoming increasingly important and cannot be avoided. The paper asserts, therefore, that visual literacy should be included but not to the extent that the curriculum will become overly "tecnnologized" and older forms of teaching and learning will be lost.

Outline:
Introduction
The Meaning and Importance of Visual Education
The Impact on Higher Education and Employment
Curriculum Development
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The contemporary learning and experiential environment is highly visual. Students are exposed to Web sites, television and a plethora of other sources of image and visual data. This increase in the pervasiveness of the visual aspect in our daily lives has also changed the meaning of being literate. As Ron Bleed states in an article entitled Visual Literacy in Higher Education, "The Literacy of the 21st century will increasingly rely not only on text and words but also on digital images and sounds" (Bleed R. 2005)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Adams, D., & Hamm, M. (2000, Winter). Literacy, Learning and Media. Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology, 9, 22. Retrieved August 7, 2007, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002377227
• Bleed R. (2005) Visual Literacy in Higher Education. Retrieved August 6, 2007, from http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI4001.pdf
• Brumberger, E. R. (2005). Visual Rhetoric in the Curriculum: Pedagogy for a Multimodal Workplace. Business Communication Quarterly, 68(3), 318+. Retrieved August 7, 2007, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5010939928
• Bustle, L. S. (2004). The Role of Visual Representation in the Assessment of Learning. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 47(5), 416+. Retrieved August 7, 2007, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5005970729
• Cesarone, B. (2005). Visual Literacy. Childhood Education, 82(1), 60+. Retrieved August 7, 2007, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5011600259

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