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Recommended Reads
Recommended Reads
Recommended Reads for Visual Literacy is a bibliography of articles, books, and archival materials that seeks to serve as a detailed web resource for visual literacy. This project seeks to empower the current research community and to encourage educators and scholars to explore the existing literature on visual literacy.
The project focuses on three main areas: visual literacy, libraries, and the ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education; visual literacy across the disciplines; and archival materials about the formation of the International Visual Literacy Association. For more information about the archival materials, please see the Arizona State University’s website about the Benedict Visual Literacy Collection.
This extensive bibliography of visual literacy was created by Dana Statton Thompson and was supported by a 2019 Carnegie Whitney Grant from the American Library Association. The articles and books sections of the bibliography span from 2011-2021. It will not include any articles published after 2021 now that the ACRL has developed the Framework for Visual Literacy in Higher Education which was approved in early 2022.
The Harry Wood Papers are comprised of original artwork, awards, correspondence, poetry, research papers, short stories, and writings. The collection ... Read More
This collection houses records, publications, and photographs documenting the Arizona Educational Media Association (AEMA) from 1948 to 1990 ... Read More
The Arizona Educational Media Association Collection is divided into six series: Series I: Board of Directors, Series II: Conferences, Series ... Read More
The Nikos Metallinos Papers contain Dr. Metallinos' courses syllabi, lecture materials, and videotaped lectures on Television Aesthetics. Materials are arranged ... Read More
The Barbara Seels Collection contains conference memorabilia, pamphlets, conference papers, photographs, conference presentations, correspondence, newsletters, and slides. Materials are arranged ... Read More
This collection houses minutes, memoranda, audio-visual catalogs, reports, newsletters, financial statements, correspondence, and Central Arizona Film Cooperative Records documenting the ... Read More
The Priscilla Hardin Papers contain correspondence, conference announcements, membership lists, and other records documenting the activities of the International Visual ... Read More
This collection houses correspondence, budgets, evaluations, ephemera, lesson plans, grant proposals, research papers, and audio and visual materials documenting Joel ... Read More
The John L. Debes III Collection includes correspondence, articles, papers, photographs, and ephemera. The collection, which runs from 1964 1985, ... Read More
The Ron Sutton Papers include correspondence, course descriptions and ephemera. The collection, which dates from 1972-1996, is divided into two ... Read More
The International Visual Literacy Association Curricula in Visual Literacy Project(IVLACVLP). Papers include correspondence, program descriptions, photographs, and reports. The collection, ... Read More
This collection houses artifacts associated with the Visual Literacy Collection that were either received individually or removed from manuscript collections ... Read More
Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills by Nancy ... Read More
History, Community, & Culture: Celebrating Tradition and Transforming our Future; Selected Readings of the International Visual Literacy Association by Robert ... Read More
Visual Literacy in the Digital Age: Selected Readings from the 25th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association by ... Read More
Art, Science and Visual Literacy: Selected Readings from the 24th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Conference by Roberts ... Read More
Verbo-visual Literacy: Understanding and Applying New Educational Communication Media Technologies: Selected Readings from the 1993 Symposium of the International Visual ... Read More
Visual Communication: Bridging Across Cultures: Selected Readings from the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association by Judy ... Read More
Investigating Visual Literacy: Selected Readings from the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association by Darrell G. Beauchamp ... Read More
Perceptions of Visual Literacy: Selected Readings from the 21st Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association by Roberts A ... Read More
Maps, Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams: Skill Building Activities for Visual Literacy (Intermediate) by John Carratello, Patty Carratello, and Paula Spence ... Read More
Electronic Learning: Issues and Teaching Ideas for Educational Computing, Television, and Visual Literacy by Dennis M Adams and Mary Hamm ... Read More
Visual Literacy in Life and Learning: Readings from the 19th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association by Roberts ... Read More
The Role of Images in Instruction & Communication: Readings from the 18th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association ... Read More
Visual Literacy: Enhancing Human Potential: Readings from the 15th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association by Roberts A ... Read More
Seeing Ourselves: Visualization in a Social Context: Readings from the 14th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association by ... Read More
Television and Visual Literacy: Readings from the 13th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association by Roberts A. Braden ... Read More
This interpretive case study examines how undergraduate students enact visual literacies, focusing on transmediation from visual-embedded research papers into multimodal ... Read More
This article presents one way that librarians, archivists, and educators can create new knowledge by connecting communities with rare material ... Read More
The purpose of this quantitative, quasi-experimental, exploratory study was to create a metaliteracy course for online Ed.D. students and determine ... Read More
Contemporary society is dominated by visual communication, yet visual literacy is a learned skill that requires training. Gender issues, particularly ... Read More
This article provides a practical guide for teaching visual analysis to university students. By adapting Serafini’s curricular and pedagogical framework ... Read More
This qualitative study investigated the perspectives of high school photography teachers regarding visual literacy. A qualitative methodology that used a ... Read More
In this paper, we discuss possible pedagogical applications for virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), within a humanities/social sciences ... Read More
This research paper describes the application of a didactic innovation project in Higher Education. We present the theoretical foundation of ... Read More
This literature review traces recent scholarship on a particular form of communication that uses images for persuasive purposes: visual rhetoric ... Read More
While much has been written about visual literacy and multimodal teaching, almost nothing has been published on preparing instructors and ... Read More
This work-in-progress seeks to benchmark the visual literacy skills of undergraduate mechanical engineering students at a small technical university, as ... Read More
Recognizing the relationship of keen observation to communication, critical thinking, and leadership in evidence-based literature, educators have expanded the use ... Read More
The effectiveness of using video content for teaching and learning has mixed reviews, but some potential positive outcomes include students ... Read More
Contemporary culture is a visual culture. Visual images become the predominant form of communication. Students should be visually literate and ... Read More
Despite the growing recognition that second language (L2) listening is a skill incorporating the ability to process visual information along ... Read More
Although Romanian school curricula introduce pupils from all grades to various forms of graphic representation, Romanian students do not get ... Read More
Agricultural literacy levels are decreasing during a time of great technological growth in the agriculture industry. Many complex ideas, such ... Read More
Within various disciplines, contextual sources such as history, theory, and criticism are used to support knowledge claims. However, the discipline ... Read More
Four colleagues--a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator of Special Collections--take turns describing their ... Read More
Regardless of institutional type or resources, one question facing archives and special collections is how archival collections can be efficiently ... Read More
This article presents the authors’ efforts to collaborate with faculty in a curriculum-mapping program that enables shared understanding of curricular ... Read More
Archival instruction pedagogy is shifting from traditional lecture-based show-and-tell approaches to more active hands-on strategies that fall within the realm ... Read More
Tertiary students from non-English speaking backgrounds are often required to undertake preparatory language courses. Whilst these programs help them achieve ... Read More
Design students can pose multiple challenges for librarians. Their information-seeking behaviours are often less linear than those of their university ... Read More
In this article, we use an interdisciplinary, short-term study abroad program in Berlin, Germany, “Memorializing the Holocaust,” as a case ... Read More
Due to the progressive visualization of everyday communication, it has become increasingly important to understand images and think and learn ... Read More
In academic libraries, information literacy traditionally focuses on instruction sessions and classes, activities in library learning spaces, and interactions with ... Read More
While much has been written about implementing the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in various classroom settings, ... Read More
Visualizing Oral Histories: Comics and Graphic Novels/Digital Humanities Lab, is a new model for digital humanities scholarship that other librarians ... Read More
For this article, an architect and librarian teamed up to systemize the means of theoretical development in architectural design students ... Read More
In the early drafts of the Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education, metaliteracy and metacognition contributed several guiding principles in ... Read More
The tenet of this article is that historic scientific works, along with science-themed artists’ books, photobooks, and U.S. government-produced reports, ... Read More
The visual dominates our visual culture and has become an essential tool for universal communication. The information landscape is embedded ... Read More
This paper aims to present recently published resources on information literacy and library instruction providing an introductory overview and a ... Read More
Teaching and learning visual literacy within art and design librarianship presents several unique challenges. Librarians are better equipped than ever ... Read More
Visual literacy, the ability to interpret, analyse and create visual material, is an increasingly crucial skill for today’s graduates. However, ... Read More
An activity involving analysis of art in biology courses was designed with the goals of piquing undergraduates’ curiosity, broadening the ... Read More
The authors consider an approach to visual literacy instruction that is rooted in the philosophies and practices of critical librarianship ... Read More
This article discusses the potential and challenges of teaching a second‐semester German class with Simon Schwartz's graphic novel drüben! (2009) ... Read More
The twenty-first century hosts a well-established global economy, where leaders are required to have increasingly complex skills that include creativity, ... Read More
In this technologically advanced environment, users have become highly visual, with television, videos, web sites and images dominating the learning ... Read More
All branches of anatomy (gross anatomy, histology, neuroanatomy, and embryology) involve significant amounts of visual identification. Understanding the spatial relationship ... Read More
This study provided a guide for appropriate characteristics of Instructional Photo to be used by teachers, trainers, coaches, instructors, and ... Read More
Focusing on academic libraries and librarians who are extending the boundaries of e-learning, this collection of essays presents new ways ... Read More
Chen adopts an intercultural perspective in her Shakespeare classes and online courses. She emphasizes collaborative activities and student participation, while ... Read More
Theories, methodologies, frameworks, and scholarship have been built around information literacy and libraries worldwide for over fifteen years. In academic ... Read More
This study examined how hands-on work with original primary materials affects students' information literacy and critical thinking skills. The project ... Read More
Librarians, like many other occupations, tend to rely on text and underutilize graphics. Research on visual communication shows that pictures ... Read More
In our media-driven age visuals are increasingly frequent and prominently present in society and their importance and influence across academic ... Read More
An abridgment of the dissertation Measuring Visual Literacy Ability in Graduate Level Pre-Service Teachers by Teresa A. Farrell, this quantitative ... Read More
Multimedia design center, digital media lab, makerspace, scholars’ lab—there are many names for the ways that academic libraries are embracing ... Read More
Just as one-shot information literacy sessions can be implemented in college classes to improve students’ research capabilities, similarly-styled sessions on ... Read More
Information professionals such as archivists and librarians are faced with the challenge of preserving, describing, and providing access to information ... Read More
The ubiquitousness of images in the digital era highlights the importance of individuals’ visual communication skills in the 21st Century ... Read More
This paper reports on attempts to incorporate creative visual literacy, by way of student owned technology, and sharing of student-generated ... Read More
Librarians often become de facto graphic designers for their libraries, taking responsibility for designing signage, handouts, brochures, web pages, and ... Read More
In today’s K-12 educational environment with the newly adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS), improving student literacy as a foundational ... Read More
With evidence that arts engagement and nonlinear thinking style both utilize insight, intuition, and emotion in the decision making process, ... Read More
This paper reports changes in the Technion technology/mechanics teacher education courses aimed to enhance students’ knowledge and skills in teaching ... Read More
The importance of visual literacy development is demonstrated using social studies examples from an innovative, collaborative arts program. Discussion of ... Read More
In collaboration with students and faculty, the Library of Architecture, Design and Construction at Auburn University developed an interdisciplinary Materials ... Read More
This article examines visual literacy education and research for library and information science profession to educate the information professionals who ... Read More
This chapter describes our instruction efforts concerning Google Images, a specialized search engine. We were inspired to teach Google Images ... Read More
Utilizing Google Apps in library instruction can help librarians easily incorporate digital literacy into their information literacy lessons. This chapter, ... Read More
The Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education presents guidelines for educators and provides a scientific framework in which students ... Read More
This article discusses visual literacy, its connection to information literacy, and its significance to scientific disciplines. It includes a case ... Read More
The role of the school librarian requires mastering numerous dynamic and pliable 21st-century literacies. Of those literacies, visual literacy is ... Read More
The University of South Africa (Unisa), is an open and distance learning institution in a developing country. Technological development provides ... Read More
This paper reports on a pilot study conducted at a medium–sized state university in California. An information literacy instructional method ... Read More
In the United States, archival institutions have prioritized the preservation of commercial and Hollywood cinema overlooking small-scale media production by ... Read More
Mini-documentary video projects are short factual videos that can be created by students. The mini-documentary video is generally suitable for ... Read More
An architect’s education requires a broad mastery of visual skills. Particularly in design courses, students must demonstrate the skills necessary ... Read More
Visual producers have a deep and inseparable relationship with the institutionalisation and development of archaeological practice. Their role in articulating ... Read More
"Considering some deficiency of college students' innovative project construction and general lack of innovation incubation platform, this paper puts forward ... Read More
"Although finding, interpreting, and using archives is inherent in the study of history, no standard identifies the archival research competencies ... Read More
"A conceptualization of visual proficiency is offered. A survey is described which asked college students (N=358) to identify five photographs, ... Read More
"Information literacy, from its emergence to its recent formulation, has and continues to uncritically adopt and reproduce neoliberalism within a ... Read More
"Metaliteracy is envisioned as a comprehensive model for information literacy to advance critical thinking and reflection in social media, open ... Read More
"Developing instructional approaches and learning activities on applicable visual literacy training for K-12 teachers can be a challenge to teacher ... Read More
"This study assessed the relevance of a national association's standards for developing information literacy competency in undergraduate students at a ... Read More
"My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled “Interpreting Britomart’s Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser’s ... Read More
"Critic John Berger’s ideas about seeing are still relevant. Many are certainly enveloped in the contemporary academic librarian’s definition of ... Read More
"Today’s undergraduates are clearly comfortable as consumers of technology and new media—purchasing ring tones for their cell phones and tunes ... Read More