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Critical graphicacy : understanding visual representation practices in school science / by Wolff-Michael Roth, Lilian Pozzer-Ardenghi and Jae Young Han.

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Critical graphicacy : understanding visual representation practices in school science / by Wolff-Michael Roth, Lilian Pozzer-Ardenghi and Jae Young Han.
Author
Roth, Wolff-Michael, 1953-
Publication
Dordrecht : Springer, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Pozzer-Ardenghi, Lilian
  • Young Han, Jae
Description
xxviii, 285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Science & technology education library ; v. 26
Uniform Title
Science & technology education library ; v. 26.
Alternative Title
Understanding visual representation practices in school science
Subject
  • Textbooks > Readability
  • Visual communication
  • Visual learning
  • Science > Study and teaching
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Towards a critical graphicacy -- 2. The work of reading graphs -- 3. Graphicacy and context -- 4. Photographs in biology texts -- 5. Graphicacy in lectures -- 6. Interpretative graphicacy in practice -- 7. The work of reading layered inscriptions -- 8. Semiotics of chemical inscriptions -- 9. Reading layered dynamic inscription -- 10. Epilogue: steps toward a critical graphicacy.
ISBN
  • 1402057113 (pb.)
  • 9781402057113
OCLC
144228568
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library