ABSTRACT
Visual literacy is a long-contested term that has led to a wide array of competing theories and practices being advanced in education research. However, one thing is certain: in our image-driven 21st-century world, adult education can no longer neglect the fact that our learners must be critically literate in the ways of images and their meaning-making possibilities. What is more, it must embrace a pedagogical approach to visual literacy informed by the principle and practice of remixing with which many adults are still unfamiliar. To explain, ours in not simply a visual culture, but a convergence culture driven by the unrestrained need to blend, juxtapose, assemble, and remake all manner of visual media as part of one’s daily digital communication practices. In this chapter, I argue that we must empower adult learners through remixing activities in order to make them realize their full human potential in the 21st century.
