ANALYSIS OF VISUAL THINKING MEANING IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2008, Vol 4, Issue 2

Abstract

Western culture coding mostly all information in verbal codes influenced all Europe human thinking and its skills that is why verbal thinking was broadly analyzed in science. However, the meaning of visual thinking is visibly developing because of spreading technologies and visual culture. It is very important to turn scientists’ attention to the meaning of this phenomenon in education process because encoding of the views is getting daily pupils’ need during the learning process. The pupils have to learn from the visual images in science education. Decoding of them conditions the structuring of the mental models in conscious. The quality of knowledge depends on the last mentioned objects. The built model explains the meaning of visual thinking processes in science education.

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Renata Bilbokaitė

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Renata Bilbokaitė (2008). ANALYSIS OF VISUAL THINKING MEANING IN SCIENCE EDUCATION. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 4(2), -. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-34495