本研究目的在分析藝術師資培育生針對全球化以及在地化的影像選擇與詮釋。批判視覺方法論被使用來分析這些影像及詮釋。研究發現師培生們所選擇的影像及其說明，顯現出本土和全球文化認同的混合觀點，同時其對於全球化以及在地化的詮釋與個人日常生活息息相關，包括：手機、麥當勞、星巴克、迪士尼、夜市、本土藝術、全球暖化，以及奧林匹克世運會等。視覺影像因此
可用來傳達思想、信仰與情感，進而界定個人的文化傳承與認同，經由視覺影像，個人清晰地表現其文化認同，並且與他人分享。這項研究因而有助於提升藝術師資培育生對於全球化以及在地化視覺文化議題的關切，進而能批判地解析與重建全球以及在地的文化認同。

The purpose of this study was to analyze art teacher education students’
interpretations of images selected in Taiwan focused on the issues of
globalization and localization. Critical visual methodology was employed to reveal cultural significance, social practices and power relations embedded in the images. Students’ choices and statements of images revealed a great mixture of local and global cultural identities. In addition, their understandings of globalization and localization were strongly influenced by elements in their daily lives. These symbolic elements of life images included mobile phones,the McDonald’s, the Starbucks Coffee, the Disneyland, night markets, local art performances, weather changes of global warming, and the World Olympic Games. Most importantly, visual images are used to communicate thoughts,beliefs and feelings to define an individual’s cultural legacy and identity.Through visual images, an individual’s cultural identity is clearly expressed and shared with others. This study thus helps to increase art teacher education students’ sensitivity to the issues of globalization and localization of visual culture, to critically interpret and decode the images, and to reconstruct both global and local cultural identities.