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Remixing visual literacy for 21st-century adult education
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Type
Book chapter
Citation
Mizusawa, K. (2021). Remixing visual literacy for 21st-century adult education. In P. A. Robinson, K. V. Williams, & M. Stojanović (Eds.), Global citizenship for adult education: Advancing critical literacies for equity and social justice (pp. 306–315). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003050421-39
Abstract
Visual literacy is a long-contested term that has led to a wide array of competing theories and practices being advanced in education research. However, one thing is certain: in our image-driven 21st-century world, adult education can no longer neglect the fact that our learners must be critically literate in the ways of images and their meaning-making possibilities. What is more, it must embrace a pedagogical approach to visual literacy informed by the principle and practice of remixing with which many adults are still unfamiliar. To explain, ours in not simply a visual culture, but a convergence culture driven by the unrestrained need to blend, juxtapose, assemble, and remake all manner of visual media as part of one’s daily digital communication practices. In this chapter, I argue that we must empower adult learners through remixing activities in order to make them realize their full human potential in the 21st century.
Date Issued
2021
ISBN
9781003050421 (online)
Publisher
Routledge
DOI
10.4324/9781003050421-39