The subject of Visual Literacy deals with the ability of the individual to read, understand, and write in visual language. This course focuses upon the concepts, forms and uses of visual language in various areas of everyday experience.
The topics we will explore include:
• Types of images. Image historicity.
• Image as text. Image-text borders and connections.
• Visual Culture / Visual Literacy: raising children in a world made of images.
• The representation of gender, class, ethnic group, age, skill.
• Uses of the image. Theory and Criticism. Image analysis and interpretation.
• New technologies and digital media: the evolution in the production and dissemination of images. Media and Information Literacy (MIL)
• Good practices and suggestions for the use of the image in Preschool Education
• Documents’ analysis: advertising, art, children’s drawing, illustrated books for children, films for children (fiction/ documentary).
• Exercises of experiential comprehension, evaluation and reflection on selected images.