Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation

By Shari Tishman

Book Overview

Slow Looking provides 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138240400
• ISBN13: 9781138240407
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"