Be an Artist in Words, that you may be Strong, for the Tongue is a Sword!
The focus of the Visual Literacy Foundation Course is to develop students’ academic writing proficiency in English, as well as their abilities to respond critically to visual discourses. The students who register for this course are usually admitted to the University on the potential strength of an arts-based portfolio or audition, are vibrant and strong practically and orally, but often have limited academic writing proficiency. In the workshop we explore the multimodal pedagogogies employed in the course and how we redesigned and modified the curriculum to address weaknesses in students’ writing that emerged in the process of producing an academic essay. We use the term ‘ambulatory’ to capture metaphorically and literally how we worked with concepts of ‘movement’ and ‘motion’ in our pedagogical practice: we argue in the workshop for an ‘ambulatory’ relationship as a form of pedagogic practice and how this enlivens the relationship between the subject and object in novel ways, leading to enriched learning.
Keywords: Visual Literacy, Multimodal, Ambulatory, Pedagogy, Academic Writing, Multiliteracies
Joni Brenner
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David Andrew
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Ref: L07P0979