Visual Thinking Strategies—Theory and Applied Areas of Insertion

Carmen Narcisa Albert, Mihaela Mihai and Ioana Mudure-Iacob
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Carmen Narcisa Albert: Department of Interdisciplinary Skills, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Mihaela Mihai: Department of Interdisciplinary Skills, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ioana Mudure-Iacob: Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, 400394 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-12

Abstract: Twenty-first century learners live in a highly visual world, being constantly surrounded by visual, technologized stimuli and the educational system, be it general or specialized—as in the case of higher education—needs to creatively meet and answer these learning requirements. Among the plethora of new or updated approaches, the concept of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) designed by Philip Yenawine and Abigail Housen has gained extensive popularity due to its capacity of being adapted to a wide range of specialized fields with notable improvement results. The main purpose of the present review is to synthetically and critically present relevant scientific work related to the application of the VTS procedure and to further identify possible study areas that would highly benefit from the insertion of this procedure. Thus, the theoretical perspective is tackled from a cognitive-psychology standpoint, followed by a rendering of the research variety in applied VTS contexts pertaining to different study domains, as well as online VTS web clustering. These contexts have shown a predilection for VTS usage, which improves higher-education students’ specialized vocabulary and speaking skills in the same target language, but not in the case of ESP (English for specific purposes) classes.

Keywords: visual thinking strategies (VTS); higher-education-specialized VTS applications; VTS web clusters; English for specific purposes (ESP); technical vocabulary; sustainable communication skill (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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