Editing Visual literacy (section)

==Historical background==
The notion of visual literacy has been around for quite some time.  Classical and Medieval theories of memory and learning, for instance, placed a strong emphasis on how the visual format of words and lies affected the ordering of information in the mind.  During the Enlightenment new emphasis was placed on training the senses through print and manuscript technologies in a way that benefitted the rising middle class.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Eddy|first=Matthew Daniel|title=The Shape of Knowledge: Children and the Visual Culture of Literacy and Numeracy|journal=Science in Context|year=2013|volume=26|issue=2|pages=215–245|url=https://www.academia.edu/1817033|doi=10.1017/s0269889713000045|s2cid=147123263 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Eddy|first1=Mathew Daniel|title=The Child Writer: Graphic Literacy and the Scottish Educational System, 1700–1820|journal=History of Education|date=2016|volume=45|issue=6|pages=695–718|doi=10.1080/0046760X.2016.1197971|s2cid=151785513|url=https://www.academia.edu/23569976}}</ref>  In addition to learning to read visual material like tables and figures, many schoolchildren learned how to write and draw in graphic patterns that made their notes more accessible and easier to access.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Eddy|first1=Matthew Daniel|title=The Nature of Notebooks: How Enlightenment Schoolchildren Transformed the Tabula Rasa|journal=Journal of British Studies|date=2018|volume=57|issue=2|pages=275–307|doi=10.1017/jbr.2017.239|doi-access=free}}</ref>  By the nineteenth century visual literacy was a core component of the national educations systems that were emerging in Europe and North America, with educational reformers like Sir John Lubbock arguing for visual tools like diagrams and models to be used in the classroom.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Yeh|first1=Ellen|last2=Wan|first2=Guofang|date=2019-05-09|title=Media Literacy Education and 21st Century Teacher Education|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118978238.ieml0230|journal=The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy|pages=1–18|doi=10.1002/9781118978238.ieml0230|isbn=9781118978245|s2cid=164225498 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>