商品簡介
The 10 essays in this volume were based on papers given at a conference in December 2011 at Budapest U. of Technology and Economics, Hungary, as part of its Visual Learning Lab research seminars. Education, communication, linguistics, and other scholars from Europe, the US, and New Zealand focus on the theme of visual thinking in higher education and discuss the role of architectural theory, the shift in the teaching of purely textual material to visual forms in a Classics course, learning and visuality from the perspective of online learning, the use of visual design and language in university website homepages, the effects of visualization in art history, rhetoric and visual literacy, visual self-preservation via mobile phone storage of images, the use of emoticons in communication, inducing students to express abstract mental images through sketches, and visualization and scientific explanation. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Andras Benedek is Professor and Head of the Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has published several papers on human resource development issues.
Kristof Nyiri is Professor of Philosophy at the same Department. His main fields of research are the philosophy of images and the philosophy of time.
