Download or read book Investigating Visual Literacy written by International Visual Literacy Association. Conference and published by International Visual Literacy Association, Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 53 articles grouped under five headings: (1) Research (14 papers on such topics as cognitive style and cognitive strategies, visual literacy training, and the impact of diagrams, type styles, and computer graphics on learning); (2) Theory (nine papers on such topics as the development of visual literacy concepts, cognition and understanding, visual intelligence, instructional design, and hypermedia); (3) Computers and Technology (six papers on such topics as hypermedia, still photography, high definition television, and desktop publishing); (4) Arts (12 papers on such topics as photography, images and meaning, incongruous imagery, visual thinking, and art and computer graphics); and (5) Schools and Curriculum (12 articles on such topics as teaching visual literacy at the elementary, high school, and college levels, illustration of children's books, visual creativity, visual design, and schema construction). Most papers contain references. (KRN)