The Research on Visual Literacy in Transliteracy as the Main Ability to Understand and Communicate in the 21st Century Cover Image

Badania visual literacy w transliteracy jako główne zdolności do rozumienia i komunikowania się w XXI wieku
The Research on Visual Literacy in Transliteracy as the Main Ability to Understand and Communicate in the 21st Century

Author(s): Małgorzata Wieczorek-Tomaszewska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Literary Texts, Education, Library and Information Science, Electronic information storage and retrieval
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: information literacy; visual literacy; visual culture; information culture; transliteracy; digital education

Summary/Abstract: This paper describes describes the cultural and technological context of visual literacy, resulting from the specificity of the evolutionarily expanding culture of image and the development of the information society, in the context of the concept of transliteracy. It presents the results of pilot studies of Polish university students for specific visual skills. Comparative material for research tasks of the prepared project “The legitimacy of visual literacy in the process of education” is a set of visual literacy (Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, 2011) developed in academic and scientific environments in the USA (The Association of College and Research Libraries, ACRL).

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 31-50
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English