The Iconic Turn in Education

After the iconic term and the invasion of digital images, videos and animations, learning environment, educational science, and everyday educational practice have to face a great challenge: to retain a certain conservatism and, at the same time, to exploit the potentials of online networked communication - the continuous word and image interplay.

Some twenty years after the term iconic turn has been coined, and with a deluge of digital images, videos and animations surrounding, indeed invading, the learning environment, it appears that educational science, and the everyday practice of education, still very much labour under the impact of the past dominance of alphabetic literacy. But while educators clearly need to retain a measure of conservatism, maintain an acute sense for the logic of the written text and preserve the ability to handle extended hardcopy documents, they have to rise to the task, also, of exploiting the potentials of online networked communication, the constant presence of images, both static and moving, and the continuous interplay of words and images.

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András 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.
Kristóf Nyíri is Professor of Philosophy at the same Department. His main fields of research are the philosophy of images and the philosophy of time.

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Contents: András Benedek: Preface Branko Mitrovi: In the Aftermath of the Linguistic Turn. Where Architectural Theory is Going Jonathan Shimony/Jula Wildberger: Teaching Classics through Art. Visual Arts As a Tool for Enhancing Text Comprehension and Appreciation András Benedek: A Pattern of Bursts or Constant Light? Tamás Eitler: The Visual and Linguistic Design of British University Brands Zoltán Szts: The Quest for Realistic and 3D Visual Representation. An Iconic Turn in Art History Petra Aczél: Mediarhetoric. Complex Visual Literacy Jane Vincent: Mediating Emotions via Visual Communications. An Exploration of the Visual Presentation of Self via Mobile Phones Ágnes Veszelszki: Connection of Image and Text in Digital and Handwritten Documents James E. Katz/Daniel Halpern: Time and Biography. Folk Visual Metaphors Kristóf Nyíri: Visualization and the Horizons of Scientific Explanation.