Division B Preconference Seminar. Beyond Representation and Realism: New Theoretical Approaches to Visual Images in the Curriculum (Day 1 of 2)

Session Type: Seminar

Abstract

In the humanities and social sciences, digital media, e-literacies, photography, film, gaming and more have changed the nature of perception and also been influenced by and trapped within extant theories of perception. What happens, then, when current generations of schoolgoers state that they like to learn more from pictures than from words? Can words, images, and things truly be separated out? If so, what “work” do visual images do on us and us on them? This seminar moves beyond the easy outs of representation and realism that the analysis of images often leads to, offering new theoretical frameworks for approaching the role and weight of visual images in postfoundational, ethnographic, and curriculum studies research.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies