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Slow looking : the art and practice of learning through observation /

By: Tishman, Shari [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018Description: x, 155 pages : ill. ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781138240414; 9781138240414:; 1138240419; 9781138240407; 1138240400.Subject(s): Observation (Educational method) | Critical thinking -- Study and teaching -- MethodologyDDC classification: 371.38 TIS
Contents:
Strategies for looking -- Slow in practice -- Looking and describing -- Look for yourself and visit a museum! -- Looking goes to school -- Science learns to look -- Slow looking and complexity.
Summary: A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active cognitive opportunities for meaning-making and critical thinking that may not be possible though high-speed means of information delivery. Addressing the multi-disciplinary applications of this purposeful behavioural practice, this book draws examples from the visual arts, literature, science, and everyday life, using original, real-world scenarios to illustrate the complexities and rewards of slow looking.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strategies for looking -- Slow in practice -- Looking and describing -- Look for yourself and visit a museum! -- Looking goes to school -- Science learns to look -- Slow looking and complexity.

A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active cognitive opportunities for meaning-making and critical thinking that may not be possible though high-speed means of information delivery. Addressing the multi-disciplinary applications of this purposeful behavioural practice, this book draws examples from the visual arts, literature, science, and everyday life, using original, real-world scenarios to illustrate the complexities and rewards of slow looking.

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