Visual displays in elementary schools: more than just a pretty picture
| atmire.migration.oldid | 199 | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Panayotidis, E. Lisa | |
| dc.contributor.author | Martens, Sherry | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-07-24T20:21:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-13T08:01:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-07-24 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2012 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is a hermeneutic inquiry into the meaning of visual displays in elementary schools. Specifically, I address the question of how visual displays have come to appear in our schools. I explore, through my conversations with three elementary teacher participants, the topic of visual displays. The inquiry explores historical, pedagogical, cultural and personal narratives through teacher identity that open up an understanding of the topic of visual displays in elementary schools. The inquiry also investigates the intersubjectivity of visual culture in education and how this relates to a tradition of images in schools. This dissertation draws upon the philosophical writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer and nineteenth-century social theorist John Ruskin to understand how the appearance of tradition, joy, beauty, and labor came to be associated with the existence of visual displays. I critically trace the historic threads of “object-study,” “nature study,” the school-decoration movement and picture-study as they speak to the current practices of visual displays in today’s schools. Understanding that “images speak” is an important notion for the twenty-first century educator yet is rarely discussed or taken up critically. Thus, my exploration into the meaning and significance of the topic of visual displays in elementary schools opens up the possibility for new understandings of visuality in education. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Martens, S. (2012). Visual displays in elementary schools: more than just a pretty picture (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28649 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28649 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11023/133 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Graduate Studies | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
| dc.subject | Education--Art | |
| dc.subject | Education--Curriculum and Instruction | |
| dc.subject | Education--Elementary | |
| dc.subject.classification | Visual Displays | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Bulletin Boards | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Hermeneutics | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Interpretive Inquiry | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Arts Based Research Methodology | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Visual Culture in Schools | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Teacher Identity | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | History of Education in Canada | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | History of Education in Calgary | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | School Decoration Movement | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Reggio-Inspired Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Picture Study | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Poetic Transcription | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Curriculum Theory | en_US |
| dc.title | Visual displays in elementary schools: more than just a pretty picture | |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Educational Research | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | |
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