Visual Culture in the context of Cultural Studies
The thesis will explore Visual Culture in the context of Cultural Studies. According to Chmielecki (2015, p.95), vital culture the notion of the image and its role in contemporary culture is dominant compared to language in the development of visual cultural studies rooted in the semiotics of the image and communication theory. In this perceptive, pictorial turns are seen as a mirror reflection of linguistics turns and academic movement that has increased self-consciousness about the belief of the importance of sight and its correlatives in workings of cultures. The rationale of this research is to understand the notion of visual culture by looking at the idea of visual and then the concept of culture and how these two relate to each other. Besides, the integration of visual cultures in the curricula as means of increasing the relevancy of visual learning for students and the inclusion of the learning culture in classrooms serves to facilitate the development of higher-order thinking skills in students. Also, it can assist students in navigating through a seemingly infinite cluster of signs aimed at shaping them in pedagogical rooms.
The research also endeavors to understand how Visual Culture in the context of Cultural Studies, is represented in the context of Visual Culture Art Education (VCAE). VCAE is seen as a process of visual culture as a modern approach to learning that goes beyond visible text to their various context, phenomenological, institutional, and historically. This positions the learner as an essential agent in the meaning-making by modeling critical connection to course material to student’s interest. Connections are made to democratic principles in cultural education in this type of study, which presents an opportunity for educators to foster student questioning, hand on inquiry, writing, and constructions that are distinct from dominant ideologies. Therefore, this study will contribute to a pool of literature on visual culture by providing additional material that can help the researcher in comprehensively understanding this topic.