School Visual Culture: Research about Primary School's Walls

Abstract

One of the most overlooked topics of education is the aesthetic dimension of school's environment and its possible impact upon teaching quality. This paper ponders over the visual culture unfolded in classrooms' walls of the first year of primary school in public educational establishments of the area of Peñalolén. Specifically, this research studies the purposes of the images, its sources, technologies, iconographies, and styles. The results show a copious and varied proliferation of images, which raise certain questions related to the criteria of their selection and their suitability in the educational context, as well as the students' participation in their production.