Reflective visual literacy: far more than meets the eye
| dc.contributor.author | Jordaan, Danie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-21T07:29:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-21T07:29:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The commonly accepted notion that a picture is worth a thousand words paradoxically places greater communicative value on images than on spoken or written language. Ironically, a lingering precedence of letters and numbers over images still characterize “enlightened” contemporary discourse, in spite of many claims that we live in a society dominated by the visual. This article explores the hermeneutics of photographs and visual images on a conceptual level, touching on issues such as validity of interpretation, the fallacy of a universally understood and pictorial language and the distinction between functional visual literacy and nuanced reflective visual literacy. Finally it makes a case for including visual literacy as part of the formal curricula at school and at tertiary level. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jordaan, D. (2010). Reflective visual literacy: far more than meets the eye. Communitas, (15), 21-37. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1023-0556 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2415-0525 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/3604 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Hermeneutics | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Photographs | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Functional visual literacy | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Reflective visual literacy | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Curriculum | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Reflective visual literacy: far more than meets the eye | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |