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Book SynopsisThis international collection presents theoretical, empirical and practice-led considerations of what can be envisioned as visual pedagogies, offering classic, creative, and contemporary re-workings of these paradigms. In complementary yet overlapping parts, this book explores understandings of visual pedagogies as learning with, through and/or about images, visual and digital environments, embodied performances and immersive experiences. As visual practices in academia gain momentum, the need to navigate visuality in ways that enhance sensibility and awareness of how/what we observe, analyze, criticize and reflect on in any given moment continues to grow. We understand visual pedagogies as nomadic in the sense that the how and the what of image centered learning is not separable. What does this mean? First it means recognizing pedagogical practices as always already implicated. In other words, the form itself carries its own message. Visual pedagogies respond to, and are actualized within, the cultural contexts in which they are working. At the same time, they carry the possibilities of being taken up in diverse ways beyond one particular context. As living morphing practices, visual pedagogies expand on contextual affordances, while at the same time providing the means of exceeding them. Thus there are folk-literacies in perpetual movement that are producing visual pedagogies where points of traction for theorizing and research can form. These then can be mobilized as springboards for analysis and examination of how visual pedagogies become apparent. This book takes up multiple diverse contexts through an international selection of authors. The parts work to address conceptual, empirical and practical considerations through different emphases, yet in conversation with each other.
Table of ContentsForeword: Visual Pedagogy in the Shadow of the Anthropocene jan jagodzinski Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Nomadology of Visual Pedagogies Carolina Cambre, Edna Barromi-Perlman and David Herman Jr. PART 1: Concepts Introduction to Part 1 Carolina Cambre 1 The Power of Showing: A Phenomenological Critique on “Visual” in Visual Pedagogies and Art Education Taneli Tuovinen 2 Images – Imagination – Imaginaries: Epistemic Organizing and Epistemologies of the Visual Susanne Maria Weber and Marc-André Heidelmann 3 World Cinema as Placeless Place: The Heterotopic Visual Pedagogy of Parker Tyler’s Classics of the Foreign Film Gilad Padva 4 Esculent Identities: Towards a Spatial Politics of Be/Longings in Black Visuality David Herman, Jr. 5 Teaching Can Be a Real Drag (Show); Or, Move over, Sage! That Stage Is Mine: Academic Drag in Theory, Practice, and Prancing Tommy Mayberry PART 2: Cases Introduction to Part 2 Edna Barromi-Perlman 6 Unfinished and Undisciplined: Cuir and Decolonizing Practices in a Buenos Aires Arts Studio Alma Scolnik and Claudia Ricca 7 In These Memories: Metaphor, Meaning, and Visual Pedagogy in Appalachian America Chase Mitchell 8 Visual Mimesis in Youth’s Social Media Practices in Spain Julián de la Fuente Prieto, Pilar Lacasa Díaz and Rut Martínez-Borda 9 The Role of the Researcher in Challenging Educational Injustice: Using Photovoice with Young Adults with Disabilities in Rural Ethiopia Susie Miles, Andy Howes and Jana Zehle 10 Photo-Based Facilitation of Migrant Children’s Remembered Narratives within Classroom Interactions Vittorio Iervese, Claudio Baraldi and Chiara Ballestri PART 3: Practices Introduction to Part 3 David Herman Jr. 11 Unlocking Digital Citizenship with Visual Pedagogy: Teachings from an American Gender Issues in Communication Course Jennifer Roth Miller 12 Making Mandalas as Expressions of Course Content Comfort: A Process Report and Researcher Interpretation John L. Plews 13 The Constellation Model: A Mindful Methodology of Research-Creation Elhem Younes 14 Visualizing Theory: Text-Visualization as a Teaching Practice for Academic Reading in the Humanities Lívia Barts and Beja Margitházi 15 Mobilizing Internet Memes as Visual Pedagogy Elysse Deveaux 16 Visualization of Individual and Collective Ill-Structured Problem Schemas Evelina Jaleniauskienė Index
