Engaging Visual Culture
Engaging Visual Culture by Karen T. Keifer-Boyd, published by Davis Publications, Incorporated in 2007, is a guidebook designed for educators. This 162-page book addresses how to help students navigate the complex meanings of visual culture that influence their perceptions and experiences. It provides practical strategies aimed at fostering critical thinking about the visual information that permeates everyday life.
Readers will find that the book is structured around three key concepts: Expose, Explode, and Empower. Each chapter encourages teachers to expose students to the significance of visual culture, challenge their passive acceptance of visual messages, and empower them to actively construct their own interpretations. The content focuses on themes relevant to art, education, and philosophy, making it a valuable resource for those involved in teaching and learning within these fields.
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How to help students negotiate visual culture’s potent and multilayered meanings. Engaging Visual Culture is a guidebook for teachers to help students make sense of the pervasive flow of visual information shaping their worldview and way of being. The authors offer practical strategies to help students learn to think critically about visual culture, its meanings, and its impact on their lives. Each of the nine chapters focuses on three key concepts: Expose, Explode, and Empower. By exposing students to the presence and power of visual culture, and “exploding” the passive acceptance of the visual messages all around us, students are empowered to participate actively in constructing their own meanings.
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