Making Knowledge Visible: The Distillation of Course Content Through Visual Poetry

• In Event: Roundtable Session 8
  In Roundtable Session: Arts-Based Research and Interdisciplinarity

Abstract

The creative process, tools, and artistic mediums involved in the construction of visual poems serve as a catalyst of knowledge acquisition and knowledge creation. Using visual poetry in the literacy classroom as an instructional tool and as a medium of arts-based interaction between instructor, course content, and students, leads to engaged, thriving classroom environments, where knowledge can take on new, aesthetic forms. Visual poetry is a valuable and easily adoptable medium to implement arts-based learning and instruction into classrooms, in which, this form of “art” does not serve only as an illustrative function, but as an essential tool of participatory learning and instruction.

Author

• Csaba Osvath, University of South Florida