Annotated Bibliography: Visual Art as Literacy in Education

    Through out this course I have related the course topics to my experience as an art educator. I do this because I believe that art education isn't just "special", it is essential to the development of successful students. In the age of new medias, were visual consumption dominates our communication platforms, visual literacy is essential to understanding the world and culture. I am confident in visual art as literacy to touch on multiple subtopic such as digital arts as digital media, visual arts as language and visual literacy as understanding of culture and beyond. Hopefully, I can utilize this research as proof of relevance and a source for advocacy in art education. As I out line potential sources below keep these points in mind, to develop an understanding of my research.

Annotated Bibliography: Visual Art as Literacy in Education

Zuiker, S. J. (2014). Visual Communication in Transition: Designing for New Media Literacies and Visual Culture Art Education Across Activities and Settings. E-Learning and Digital Media, 11(6), 654–666. https://doi.org/10.2304/elea.2014.11.6.654

    Touches on the benefits and risks of incorporating social and design oriented activities into the formal classroom. I believe that art education could be incorporated into the classroom this way, much like a literacy or math teacher rotates rooms through out the day to develop their respective skill sets with in classroom curriculums.

Chung, S. K., & Kirby, M. S. (2009). Media Literacy Art Education: Logos, Culture Jamming, and Activism. Art Education (Reston), 62(1), 34–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2009.11519002

    Incorporates popular culture consumption with art education. Asking students to use their skills with media as a source for learning about their culture and the world. This article will validate my statement that visual art in the media is a to be read like written medias, building it's own home in the realm of literacies.

Lopatovska, I., Hatoum, S., Waterstraut, S., Novak, L., & Sheer, S. (2016). Not just a pretty picture: visual literacy education through art for young children. Journal of Documentation, 72(6), 1197–1227. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2016-0017

    A study of children's knowledge of visual literacy at ages 4-6 before and after art instruction. Highlighting there ability and reediness to develop skills in this area and its importance to their development and learning. I will use this research to highlight the importance of art education as literacy in early education, not crafts and cutting skills.

Kwon, H. (2020). Graphic Novels: Exploring Visual Culture and Multimodal Literacy in Preservice Art Teacher Education. Art Education (Reston), 73(2), 33–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2019.1695479

    Notes the power of  "double narrative between images and words. Suggestions and reflections on the expression students will find in the use of graphic novels as literacy and as art. I find illustration to be the most relatable support to my argument as it is familiar and traditional in literacy.

Johnson, M. H. (2008). Developing Verbal and Visual Literacy through Experiences in the Visual Arts: 25 Tips for Teachers. YC Young Children, 63(1), 74–79.

An extensive list of pedagogy to encourage visual literacy in children. Utilizing dialogue, questioning and reflection students decode artworks as information. This is a great example of basic pedagogy to employ with students of all ages to encourage skill building.

Additional Reading to Investigate

Marfil-Carmona, R., & Chacón, P. (2017). Arts Education and Media Literacy in the Primary Education Teaching Degree of the University of Granada. Procedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 237, 1166–1172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.174

Wright, P. (2016). Seeing is believing. Or is it?: visual literacy in art & design education. Art Libraries Journal, 41(1), 32–39. https://doi.org/10.1017/alj.2015.6

Nixon, M. (2016). Knowing me knowing you: Enhancing emotional literacy through visual arts. International Journal of Education through Art, 12(2), 181–193. https://doi.org/10.1386/eta.12.2.181_1