Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2007. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Education, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education. Includes bibliographies.

Med bakgrund i begreppet visual literacy, samt elevers och lärares föreställningar kring bildämnets syfte och innehåll, undersöker detta arbete hur lärare förhåller sig till begreppet visual literacy i sin undervisning och hur lärarna uppfattar begreppet i relation till läroplanen. Detta undersöks utifrån en pragmatisk syn på kunskap och lärande. Begrepp från det multimodala perspektivet Design för lärande har brukats för att analysera faktorer som påverkar lärares genomförande och val av undervisnings innehåll. Materialet har samlats in genom fem semistrukturerade intervjuer med bildlärare som arbetar i grundskolan. Resultatet visar att dem delar som visual literacy består av finns med i informanternas undervisning. Kopplingar mellan visual literacys innehåll och den pragmatiska kunskapssynen diskuteras även. Utifrån informanternas uppfattningar av visual literacys relation till bildundervisning och styrdokumenten, identifieras två förhållningsätt.Nyckelord: Bildundervisning, Bildämne, Visual Literacy

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This dissertation was driven by a lack of evidence substantiating the current state of visual literacy knowledge and skills of instructional design professionals and the continuing call for visual literacy assessment research. The project has contributed two manuscripts that examine the existing visual literacy assessment research and document an attempt at designing and developing an evidence-based visual literacy assessment product. The first manuscript, a comprehensive literature review, offers insights into how visual literacy has been assessed over the years and the challenges associated with establishing a research agenda for visual literacy assessment as revealed by current research and practice. The second manuscript, adopting the design and development research methodology, aims to design and develop a product that instructional designers can use to assess or diagnose the strengths and weaknesses in their knowledge regarding a fundamental vocabulary of visual literacy. / Doctor of Philosophy / Learning and training design professionals are often expected by the job market to communicate effectively using static or moving visual messages throughout the learning or performance problem-solving process. This process typically includes the analysis of the problem and the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of the corresponding solution. However, research has reported a mismatch between employers' and employees' perceptions of the visual competencies of learning and training professionals. Moreover, there is very limited evidence-based research assessing these visual competencies or producing assessment products or procedures. Therefore, this dissertation has contributed two manuscripts to address this issue. In the first manuscript, a comprehensive review of the relevant literature is presented to inform how these visual competencies have been assessed by previous efforts and to identify the difficulties or challenges associated with the assessment as revealed by the researchers and their work. The second manuscript designed and developed an open-access digital product for learning and training professionals to assess or diagnose their knowledge of a collection of foundational terms and concepts that underpin many visual competencies. Therefore, this product helps learning and training professionals to remediate their visual knowledge accordingly. As part of the design and development process, a group of learning and training professionals and another group of visual competency experts experienced the product and provided valuable feedback that has guided product modifications and identified areas for future development.

The design process demands comprehensive knowledge of visual signs and symbols with a focus on visual literacy; it is related to visual syntax, semantics, and the pragmatics of contexts. My work is an interdisciplinary investigation into how designers integrate polysemantic signs into their design process for particular and highly individualized audiences. By analyzing the role of signs in specific contexts across the spectrum of arts, society, literature, and semiotics, a designer's understanding of the cyclical nature of interpretation and reinterpretation in complex environments creates an avenue for cultivating a new schema that provides further levels of interpretations and different access points. By removing elements from their original context, and fusing these elements into new narratives, we implement new meanings and emphasize the value of interpretation.

The design process demands comprehensive knowledge of visual signs and symbols with a focus on visual literacy; it is related to visual syntax, semantics, and the pragmatics of contexts. My work is an interdisciplinary investigation into how designers integrate polysemantic signs into their design process for particular and highly individualized audiences. By analyzing the role of signs in specific contexts across the spectrum of arts, society, literature, and semiotics, a designer's understanding of the cyclical nature of interpretation and reinterpretation in complex environments creates an avenue for cultivating a new schema that provides further levels of interpretations and different access points. By removing elements from their original context, and fusing these elements into new narratives, we implement new meanings and emphasize the value of interpretation.

Syftet med denna undersökning är att ta reda på hur elever i årskurs 4-6 förstår illustrationer och modeller som används inom NO-undervisningen. Frågeställningen handlar mer specifikt om hur illustrationer och modeller påverkar elevers lärande. Undersökningen är gjord i form av en systematisk litteraturstudie där tidigare forskning har sökts i databaser, bland annat ERIC ebsco och Summon. Sökprocessen och urvalet av litteratur är noga redovisat. Sex artiklar från olika delar av världen valdes ut för analys. Resultatet av analysen visar att illustrationer och modeller är värdefulla för elevers lärande men att elever i årskurs 4-6 ofta inte har förmåga att själva tolka bilderna eller förstå vilken information som bilderna kan förmedla. Detta innebär att lärare behöver lära eleverna vad som karaktäriserar olika former av modeller och illustrationer. Eleverna behöver också lära sig att se sambanden mellan olika representationer. På så sätt kan eleverna utveckla den förmåga, visual literacy, som krävs för att kunna ”läsa” bilder.

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The question of the art museum's failure to engage wider audiences remains relatively unexamined and has neither widely catalysed nor changed professional practice either in curatorial, educational, or public program domains. In this study, the educational aim of the art museum is discussed. The work of Pierre Bourdieu is examined. Bourdieu argues that museum display principles, interpretive strategies, and educational techniques, propagated within the paradigm of modernism, implicitly assume possession of cultural literacy skills which are the sole privilege of the educated.The author concludes that working within and across the curatorial and educational environments of an art museum, while avoiding the pitfalls of the modernist tradition, is also a significant step toward engaging wider audiences than the cultual 'elite' in the development of visual literacy skills. / Master of Arts (Hons.)

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Simon Fraser University, 2007. / Theses (School of Interactive Arts & Technology) / Simon Fraser University. Senior supervisor: Dr. John Bowes -- School of Interactive Arts & Technology. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.