ASTERA 2025 - 30 articles
Bari, Italy | 2 October 2025
Volume Editors:
Valentina Berardinetti, University of Foggia, Italy
Pierpaolo Limone, Pegaso Telematic University, Italy
Giusi Antonia Toto, University of Foggia, Italy
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In the contemporary landscape of educational and communication research, characterized by an increasingly visual, interconnected, and constantly evolving ecosystem, Visual Education emerges as an epistemological and operational field of transdiscipli...
This contribution reports on a Visual Education pilot intervention implemented within the TFA program at the University of Bari (2025). Using a single-group research design (N = 216), the study examines the effects of integrating concept maps, infogr...
In contemporary society, dominated by visual communication and the intensive use of social media, educating learners to interpret images critically has become an essential task for all educational contexts. New generations live immersed in digital en...
This study investigates the Business Model Canvas (BMC) as a visual education tool within a training pathway aimed at enhancing human capital in inner areas. Using a qualitative case study involving 22 participants, data were collected through observ...
In the epistemological constellation of contemporary visual education, web comics establish themselves as semiotic devices with a dual pedagogical value. On the one hand, they represent the advanced synthesis of multimodal codes (visual, textual, sou...
This article describes an educational activity tested in class 2E of the “Pellico-Peano” Classical and Scientific High School in Cuneo (Italy). This activity aims to raise awareness among young people about the images with which they enco...
Opera Out of Opera 2 (OOO2) is a Creative Europe cooperation project that experiments with digital, participatory strategies to reconnect opera with younger audiences and to reshape professional capacity for conservatory students. Rather than treatin...
The algorithmic overproduction of images that increasingly characterizes our media environment reveals a radically new relationship with visual representation. What emerges is not merely an inability to distinguish an iconographic model from its real...
The representation of the sexuality of people with disabilities in contemporary media is often characterized by stereotypes, omissions, and heteronormative narratives that deny the complexity and richness of their emotional experiences. This essay ex...
Social media represents an ambivalent space for identity construction. While fostering expression, aesthetic filters and idealized models drive homogenization and social comparison. This study explores the tension between authenticity and standardiza...
Visual learning is not merely a form of visual memory—the ability to associate an object of learning with its spatial and temporal context—or simply an explanatory aid or instrumental support, as is often assumed. The kind of visual learn...
The cognitive environment in which students are immersed today is characterised by high exposure to images and content generated, selected and modulated by algorithmic systems. Visual education, therefore, runs the risk of becoming an accessory funct...
The digital transformation of mental health practice increasingly requires psychologists to integrate technological literacy with emotional and cognitive skills. This study presents a pilot project combining Visual Education and Artificial Intelligen...
The growing interest in visual methodologies within the educational field reflects the need to rethink teaching–learning processes from a participatory, multimodal, and inclusive perspective. Among these approaches, PhotoVoice emerges as a rese...
The scoping review examines how pedagogy can incorporate visual language and imagination as integral components of the learning process. Sixty-four studies were analysed following PRISMA-like guidelines to identify definitions, taxonomies, pedagogica...
This article aims to highlight the close connection between prompt engineering and philosophy, with particular attention to how AI can be used in educational and teaching contexts. The study of philosophy, traditionally oriented toward the analysis o...
In a media ecosystem marked by misinformation and disinformation, democratic resilience requires new strategies for digital and media literacy and participation. In the proposed model, the University, through transnational Cooperation Partnerships, a...
This paper presents the results of exploratory research conducted as part of a university specialisation course for future support teachers in nursery schools during ICT (Information and Communication Technology) workshops. The main objective of the...
This contribution explores the role of reflective practice and performative methodologies in the professional development of support teachers, framing reflectivity as a complex and articulated form of thinking that goes beyond intuitive reflection. D...
Visual learning is a valuable resource in inclusive educational settings. This study aims to analyse the effectiveness of using visual tools and media in the teaching process in primary schools, with a particular focus on foreign pupils. A mixed-meth...
Image communication represents a fundamental domain of human experience that intersects cognitive neuroscience, educational psychology, and visual communication theory. The increasing digitalization of contemporary society has amplified the importanc...
In recent years, Visual Education has emerged as an innovative and interdisciplinary teaching approach aimed at promoting meaningful learning through the conscious use of visual tools and languages. This educational paradigm helps to facilitate the u...
Images generated by artificial intelligence recombine visual fragments learned from datasets, producing representations based on criteria of semantic proximity and aesthetic familiarity. These images lie in an intermediate zone between verisimilitude...
This study falls within the field of lifelong education and investigates the role of aesthetic-sensory experiences—particularly those mediated by digital visual arts—in the development of critical thinking, a key competence identified in...
Positioned at the intersection of instructional mediation, Visual Education, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), this research aims to ascertain whether the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhances accessibility for students with sensory dis...
Visualising data is a key analytical and communicative tool, particularly for complex phenomena such as school dropout. This article examines how national and international educational bodies (e.g., UNESCO, the EU and the Italian Ministry of Educatio...
Digital platforms, and social media in particular, play a central role in daily life. At the same time, they may also amplify hate speech, stereotypes, and polarization. In this context, Instagram appears as a hybrid space where self-representation,...
Multimedia learning requires optimising information presentation in line with learners’ cognitive processes. Active processing depends on selecting relevant information, organising it into coherent mental representations, and integrating it wit...
How can we assess the social impact of visual learning technologies in educational environments? This question guides the present study, which proposes a social impact assessment (SIA) framework designed to capture not only the cognitive efficacy of...
