Slow Looking The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation [Hardcover]

Slow Lookingprovides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. 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 behavioral 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.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1Introduction: Slow Matters

Chapter 2Strategies for Looking

Chapter 3Slow in Practice

Chapter 4Looking and Describing

Chapter 5Look for Yourself&and Visit a Museum!

Chapter 6Looking Goes to School

Chapter 7Science Learns to Look

Chapter 8Slow Looking and Complexity

Chapter 9Conclusion: Thinking Through Slow

Index

All too often, we traverse our rich and wondrous world like stones skipping across a pond. Slow Looking, Shari Tishman's brilliantly curated exploration of thoughtful attention to the things around us, celebrates the importance of sensory lingering in art, science, and our everyday lives.

David Perkins, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA

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