UKLA Supported Research Project Hits Scottish Headlines
Visual Journeys is an on-going international research project, led by Dr Evelyn Arizpe and based in the Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow. It involves immigrant and non-immigrant children from different countries responding through a variety of modes to the same wordless texts: Flotsam by David Wiesner and The Arrival by Shaun Tan. The aim is to explore how the children construct meaning from visual images in complex narratives in order to create strategies that will develop their critical literacy skills, as well as help them reflect on their own or others’ experiences of migration, journeys and foreign worlds. The texts’ highly detailed illustrations play with fantasy but also lead to a serious consideration of these themes, as well as the power of the visual image itself .
