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    A teacher's job is to encourage their students to be thinkers and make their own informed opinions. It is also important to ensure that a teacher is not bringing images into their classroom that may be sending unrecognized or unintentional messages.

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    A teacher's job is to encourage their students to be thinkers and make their own informed opinions. It is also important to ensure that a teacher is not bringing images into their classroom that may be sending unrecognized or unintentional messages.

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    MaddieVaughn

    ART133
    UnitPaper#2
    InTerryBarrettsInterpretingVisualCulture,theauthorexaminestheeffectthatthe
    connotationsofanimage,orwhattheimageimplies,canhaveontheviewer.Anexampleisprovidedof
    acutandpasteimageofanAfricanAmericanmaninwhichtheviewerscanselectwhichaccessoriesto
    add,choosingfromaknife,afootball,orachicken,forexample(Barrett,2003).Barrettclaimsthatthe
    imagerepresentedavarietyofthestereotypesthatmanypeoplestillholdregardingAfricanAmericans,
    andthatthoseconnotationsaboutblackmenasmerelyajockorcriminalaresowidelyassumedthat
    theymaybeimpossibletogetawayfrom.HurwitzandDayexploredtheideaofteachingstudentsto
    examinevisualimagesandcultureintheirchapterVisualCultureinArtEducation,wherethey
    proposeincludingcurriculumthatteachesstudentstobemindfuloftheconnotationstheyareexposedto
    throughimagesinvisualculture.
    Itiscriticalforelementaryteacherstobeawareoftheimpactoftheconnotationsofimagesthat
    arebroughtintotheclassroom.HurwitzquotesBarrettsstatementthatImages...presentopinionsasif
    theyweretruth(Hurwitz&Day,2007).Ifviewersgoalongwiththisunconsciousassumptionthatany
    imagetheyseeisthetruth,itisnotsurprisingthatstereotypicalviewscanremainprevalent.Ateachers
    jobistoencouragetheirstudentstobethinkersandmaketheirowninformedopinions,andbeingmedia
    literateshouldbeincluded.Itisalsoimportanttoensurethatateacherisnotbringingimagesintotheir
    classroomthatmaybesendingunrecognizedorunintentionalmessagesaboutanygroupofpeopleto
    ensurethatschoolremainsasafeplaceforallstudents.
    References
    Barrett,T.(2003).Interpretingvisualculture.ArtEducation,56(2),612.
    Hurwitz,A.,&Day,M.(2007).Childrenandtheirart:Methodsfortheelementaryschool,(8th
    ed.).ThompsonWadsworth.

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