Visual literacy in education

Subimage education a portion of the media didactics and media education is understood to be concerned with images and visual symbols associated with learning, teaching, education and socialization processes. In the English-speaking world is from "visual literacy" spoken in this context often. Already Jan Amos Comenius has dealt in his work Orbis pictus sensualium with the didactic use of images.

On one side is what the image pedagogy to the question of how images can be used to optimize learning processes ( media didactics), on the other is the question of the images and worldviews in the center of this form of media education. The role of visually mediated knowledge in the appropriation of the world is questioned.

The investigation of the possibilities of manipulating images and thereby also with pictures, part of the research area of ​​image education.