Description
Product ID: | 9781783304417 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Seeing Sense |
Subtitle: | Visual literacy as a tool for libraries, learning and reader development |
Authors: | Author: Jake Hope |
Page Count: | 224 |
Subjects: | Literacy, Literacy, Library and information services, Educational strategies and policy, Educational: First / native language, Library & information services, Educational strategies & policy, Educational: English language & literacy |
Description: | This book will showcase the role of visual literacy as a tool for promoting reading, helping to raise understanding and awareness among librarians and education practitioners and promoting aspiration and achievement among the children and young people they work with. Foreword by Sir Philip Pullman, CBE, FRSL The burgeoning field of visual literacy can be universally understood across a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, regardless of traditional literacy levels. A key tool for navigating digital devices, there is often an antipathy surrounding visual literacy borne out of stigma and at times, intimidation. Seeing Sense brings together research and best practice from different organisations and institutions all over the world to showcase the role of visual literacy as a tool for promoting reading. It will be key in raising awareness among librarians and education practitioners, promoting aspiration and achievement among the children and young people they work with. Coverage includes:
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Imprint Name: | Facet Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Facet Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-07-24 |