Description
Teaching visual skills as part of social science education in general, and visual politics teaching in particular, is becoming more widespread. In the UK, this trend is codified in QAA subject benchmarks (QAA 2023; QAA 2024) as well as in a general discourse that tasks academic disciplines with also providing clear transferrable technological skills.
“Visual writing” is a pedagogically led approach for the integration of advanced visual skills as part of a critical framework. It aligns with political visual literacy (Galai 2023), which is an approach to visual politics that interrogates the visualities enfolded into visual practices, to intervene on discourses of sight and in particular, oppressive politics. This approach has framed the provision of a final year undergraduate module and several week-long workshops in UK institutions and this working-paper will share developing best practice.
