Coglunch - November 14, 2002
The Use of Pictures in Teaching
Yvonne Eriksson
Goeteborg and Vaexjoe Universities, Sweden
Many concepts and phenomena are virtually impossible to illustrate or
explain purely verbally. Therefore images and models are used in
teaching mostly in order to make objects and phenomena intelligible.
In a present project I exam how illustrations are used in teaching,
and what kind of expectations are involved for the representation as a
vehicle of meaning. I will also elucidate how the look and the
aesthetic/artistic quality of pictures used in teaching effects the
meaning, and how that is related to the perceptual and cognitive
process that are involved in an interpretation. I investigate both
illustrations in printed schoolbooks and in pedagogical multimedia
programmes.
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