Visual-graphic learning

Abstract

This contribution seeks to draw attention to the integrated use of different languages (graphic, visual, audio-visual…) in relation to the development of an innovative didactics. A multimodal and multimedia approach to didactics relates to the possibility to stimulate and trigger pre-knowledge adequate to the objects of learning, to develop the capacity to problematize, to foster processes of acquisition and re-elaboration of knowledge. In respect to this specific field, the results of an explorative investigation conducted in two university courses proposed by the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Bologna are presented. Indeed, within these courses, special emphasis was given to the use of visual and audio-visual languages to elicit the creation of multiple and original points of view, through activities based on encounters and sharing.