The Role of the Visual Image: What Are Students Really Learning from Pictorial Representations?

Journal of Visual Literacy

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-40

  Kelly Watkins, Janet ^a   Miller, Etta ^a   Brubaker, Doug ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548205643     PISSN: 1051144X     EISSN: 23796529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23796529.2004.11674601     Document Type: Article

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