Critical Graphicacy Understanding Visual Representation Practices in School Science /

• Main Authors: Roth, Wolff-Michael (Author), Pozzer-Ardenghi, Lilian (Author), Han, Jae Young (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Science & Technology Education Library, 26
• Subjects: Education.; Science education.; Science Education.

School science is dominated by textbook-oriented approaches to teaching and learning. Some surveys reveal that students have to read, depending on academic level, between ten and thirty-six pages per week from their textbook. One therefore has to ask, To what degree do textbooks introduce students t...

Table of Contents:

• Toward a critical graphicacy
• The work of reading graphs
• Graphicacy and context
• Photographs in biology texts
• Graphicacy in lectures
• Interpretive graphicacy in practice
• Layered inscriptions: what does it take to get their point?
• Semiotics of chemical inscriptions
• Reading layered, dynamic inscriptions
• Epilogue: steps toward critical graphicacy.