Critical Graphicacy Understanding Visual Representation Practices in School Science
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2005, 2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2005 |
| Series: | Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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