Volume Editor: Joanna Kędra 

Series:  Advances in Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume: 5

Visual representations are becoming an essential part of our everyday lives, but visual cultures receive scant attention in higher education. This book offers a selection of pedagogical approaches to the visual, which can be easily adapted across courses and disciplines.

The use of images in education is expanding, but clear and comprehensive guidelines on how to carry out visual activities with students of a variety of fields are difficult to find. With the case studies from Finland, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Poland, Turkey and the United States, contributors to the “Visual Pedagogies in Higher Education: Between Theory and Practice” offer detailed reflections on the pedagogical role of using images in higher education. Examples include drawing, collage making, video production, object-based learning, photography projects, and many more.

The learner-centered approach and close attention to the visual in the learning process (photographs, drawings, artworks, videos) are what connect all of the chapters. The authors share their expertise and experience of working with a particular type of visual medium and at the same time situate their pedagogical approaches within relevant, but disciplinary specific, theoretical contexts, including (critical) visual literacy, photomedia literacy, object-based learning, drawing pedagogies, and many more. By initiating this cross-disciplinary dialog about university teaching and learning with and through the visual, the book outlines the key principles of visual pedagogies for higher education, underlining the need to develop learners’ skilled vision.

The book constructs a solid argument for the further development of visual pedagogies in higher education, highlighting the need to support students in advancing their visual competency as it has become fundamental to command in everyday life and professional contexts.

Contributors: Gyuzel Gadelshina, Tad Hara, Joanna Kędra, McKenzie Lloyd-Smith, Gary McLeod, Olivia Meehan, Marianna Michałowska, Iryna Molodecky, Pınar Nuhoğlu Kibar, Paul Richter, Karen F. Tardrew, Rob Wilson and Rasa Žakevičiūtė.

Orders via Brill website (25% discount until 31 Dec. 2022 with the code: 72225)

The book launch (online, two events):

November 16th at 2:00 - 3:00pm (EET / UTC+2) (with Rasa Zakeviciute, Olivia Meehan, Gary McLeod and Pinar Kibar) - visual research methods, object-based learning, photomedia literacy, learner-generated video;

November 22nd at 3:00 - 4:00pm (EET / UTC+2) (with Marianna Michalowska, Karen Tardrew, Iryna Molodecky and Gyuzel Gadelshina) - photography & critical visual literacy, mask making in teacher education, doodling and freehand drawing in business education;

Sign up for one or both events HERE