Week 4 Reading Reflection

Feldman argues that people need to be taught visual literacy so they can critically evaluate the images that dominate our society and strongly influence us. Yenawine states that the process of developing visual literacy needs long term, graduated support to develop viewers who think critically and creatively.  I would say that my focus class falls at the preliterate end of the spectrum, and perhaps a little into the 'developing' literacy. Verbally and visually, they are beginning the journey to literacy. Most of what they have learned so far in life has been by observation (I L-O-V-E Bandura's observational learning theory, btw). They are learning the structure of written and visual language concurrently, which is cool to think about.