Journal article
The Image is (Not) the Event: Negotiating the Pedagogy of Controversial Images
Visual communication quarterly, v 21(4), pp 198-209
02 Oct 2014
Abstract
In recent years, there have been a number of high-profile cases of professors using controversial images and displays in their classrooms. In this essay, we ask not why but how professors go about presenting potentially controversial images in the context of their course. To what extent do they frame these images for their students? What are their selection criteria? Are students required to view the images? Are they even presented with a choice? Through these larger framing questions, we then analyze the why outside the constraints of debates around free choice and gratuitousness, seeking to understand the stakes for the use of these images as essential components of learning, debate, provocation, and knowledge acquisition in the university context.
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- Title
- The Image is (Not) the Event: Negotiating the Pedagogy of Controversial Images
- Creators
- Sharrona Pearl - California University of PennsylvaniaAlexandra Sastre - California University of Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- Visual communication quarterly, v 21(4), pp 198-209
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Africana Studies; Health Administration
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000212634600003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84923274462
- Other Identifier
- 991021863493504721
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- Communication