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Cappello, Marva – Issues in Teacher Education, 2019
Contemporary societies, whether in the United States or the Pacific are overwhelmingly visual in character. Yet, schools at all levels continue to privilege written text as demonstrations of learning over any other form of communication. A visual curriculum has the potential to strengthen instruction across disciplines and offers students another…
Descriptors: Reflection, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Multiple Literacies
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Cappello, Marva; Lafferty, Karen E. – Reading Teacher, 2015
Teachers can capitalize on the overwhelmingly visual nature of contemporary society for learning and teaching through integrating photography in their classroom instruction. In offering an alternative pathway for acquiring and expressing knowledge, photography has the potential to strengthen instruction across disciplines by drawing on multiple…
Descriptors: Photography, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Science, Grade 4
Cappello, Marva – Issues in Teacher Education, 2011
New graduate students in Curriculum and Instruction at San Diego State University reacted with surprise when they discovered that the syllabus indicated no requisite textbook. Instead, access to a camera was required. This was during one summer semester when the author had the opportunity to teach a course entitled "Innovations in Instruction."…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Photography, Student Attitudes, Literacy Education
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Cappello, Marva; Hollingsworth, Sandra – Language Arts, 2008
This paper explores the potential of photography for teaching, learning, and studying literacy in elementary school classrooms. We examine the ways shifting between communication systems (photography, oral language and writing) impacts students' ability to problem solve and create rich texts. Specifically, we explore the roles photography plays in…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Photography, Oral Language, Classrooms
Cappello, Marva – 2001
This paper discusses the ways in which photography was used for data generation in a 9-month qualitative study on a mixed-age elementary school classroom. Through a review of the research literature in anthropology, sociology, and education, and an analysis of the research data, the usefulness of photography for educational research with young…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Photography