Overview
- Introduces the concept of Inquiry Graphics, positioning graphics as important tools of inquiry in higher edcuation
- Examines how graphics can be utilised in a range of teaching and research contexts
- Champions the exploration of knowledge in pluralist manner, building on various theoretical concepts
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This book introduces the concept of Inquiry Graphics, which positions graphics as significant and integrated tools of inquiry in higher education teaching and research. Simply put, the book explores the nuances of thinking and learning with digital images as types of graphics. Although the amount of images in modern life is overwhelming, they have been scarcely explored and understood as integral to concept and knowledge development within higher education practice. This book reflects on why and how digital photographs can be adapted and used in teaching and research contexts. It provides practical examples and applications, as well as theoretical foundations, building on a range of perspectives, such as Peircean triadic sign and approaches to conceptual development. Ultimately, it builds on diverse approaches to make a case for exploring knowledge and analysing concepts and images in a non-dualist and pluralist manner. This unique book will appeal to scholars and students in educationstudies and educational research, media and communication, and anyone interested in applied semiotics, visual and multimodal pedagogy and learning.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Reviews
“Nataša Lacković has further established herself as one of the leaders of the emerging generation of edusemiotic scholars, though readers from well beyond the boundaries of this specialist field will draw much of value from Inquiry Graphics in Higher Education. I think this is a very well argued and well written book that makes a very significant contribution theoretically and deserves to make a significant practical impact.” (Andrew Stables†, University of Roehampton, UK)
“Taking an approach where HE communities are ‘interpreters of communication messages’, Lacković positions this book as a response to the forms of conceptual development in education that are ‘perceived in opposition to images and senses’. In a context where so much of HE learning activities are evaluated through narrow socially constructed policy frameworks, it feels liberating to take a pause to consider how graphics and digital photos externalise students’ thinking in postdigital learning contexts. By treating semiotic engagements as ‘relational, processual, pluralistic and multimodal’, the book takes a powerful stride forward to fill a gap where more design-based and action research projects (that focus on micro-practices and empirical analysis) could be said to be lacking.” (Sarah Hayes, Aston University, UK)
“Taking an approach where HE communities are ‘interpreters of communication messages’, Lacković positions this book as a response to the forms of conceptual development in education that are ‘perceived in opposition to images and senses’. In a context where so much of HE learning activities are evaluated through narrow socially constructed policy frameworks, it feels liberating to take a pause to consider how graphics and digital photos externalise students’ thinking in postdigital learning contexts. By treating semiotic engagements as ‘relational, processual, pluralistic and multimodal’, the book takes a powerful stride forward to fill a gap where more design-based and action research projects (that focus on micro-practices and empirical analysis) could be said to be lacking.” (Sarah Hayes, Aston University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Natasa Lackovic is Lecturer at the Educational Research Department at Lancaster University, UK. She is a co-director of Lancaster University’s ‘ReOPEN’, a network focusing on the role of graphic representations in university research, outreach and pedagogy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inquiry Graphics in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: New Approaches to Knowledge, Learning and Methods with Images
Authors: Nataša Lacković
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39387-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39386-1Published: 15 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39389-2Published: 16 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39387-8Published: 14 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 457
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Learning & Instruction, Semiotics, Research Methodology, Educational Psychology, Pedagogic Psychology, Higher Education