More Visual Content into Vocational Education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3311/ope.22Abstract
Although the visual element in human communication is acknowledged by philosophers and it is indeed gaining ground these days (Nyíri K.) with special regard to the use of mobile ICT tools that provide general access to visual tools in space and time (Katz J.), this kind of progressive attitude is not yet typically present in the theory and practice of education. By presenting examples of scientific communication on visual learning, the presentation wishes to demonstrate the significant potential of combining verbal and visual communication in the proper ratio in the development of education. The traditional features of technical higher education (Ferguson S.E.) and the strong technical support behind it provide an excellent opportunity for newparabolic educational innovations in visual learning. According to the author’s hypothesis,visual learning carries the possibility of such parables that will be able to improvethe efficiency of human learning, currently characterised by a constant lack of time andinformation pressure, as opposed to traditional education based on verbal communication.Author Biography
Andras Benedek
András BENEDEK, Professor and Head, Department of Technical Education, BudapestUniversity of Technology and Economics, has published some 150 papers to date in connection with human resource development issues, among them the essays “New Vistas of
Learning in the Mobile Age”, in Kristóf Nyíri (ed.), Mobile Understanding: The Epistemology
of Ubiquitous Communication, Vienna: Passagen Verlag,
2006, and “Mobile Learning: New Horizons and Unstable Summits”,
in Kristóf Nyíri (ed.), Engagement and Exposure: Mobile Communication
and the Ethics of Social Networking, Vienna: Passagen Verlag,
2009. From 1976 to 1979 he studied systems analysis on a scholarship
and acquired a PhD at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
During the 1980s he was a scientific advisor at the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences. He was the Director of Vocational Training (from
1984 to 1989), then Director General (from 1989 to 1990) at the National
Pedagogical Institute. As its first Director General in 1990, he
established the National Institute for Vocational Education. He was involved in numerous
UNESCO and ILO projects, and continues to participate in the preparation of various
World Bank and Phare projects in the area of human resource development. 1991–2006
he held the positions of deputy and permanent state secretary in different ministries. In
2004 he acquired a DSc at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. E-mail: benedek.a@
eik.bme.hu.
