Abstract
In this paper, author try to introduce various special approaches regarding how to use gender as a topic in Art Education, developing the abilities of visual literacy. These approaches are supported by long-term pedagogical research of art education discourse.
The theoretical background of this kind of research is developed by the interdisciplinary turn in humanities which comprise perspectives of structuralism, poststructuralism, linguistics, semiotics, psychoanalysis and cultural/visual/gender studies. In specific examples, author present the didactic methods of working with visual representations that represent gender issues.
These methods critically analyze pictures of popular/mainstream magazines and specific contemporary artworks, a/r/tography (teacher as an author presenting his own artwork) and the re-creative interpretation of an artwork. All these methods teach pupils how to see through or beyond the image surface to human reality and life experience.