Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction: Slow Matters
Chapter 2 Strategies for Looking
Chapter 3 Slow in Practice
Chapter 4 Looking and Describing
Chapter 5 Look for Yourself...and Visit a Museum!
Chapter 6 Looking Goes to School
Chapter 7 Science Learns to Look
Chapter 8 Slow Looking and Complexity
Chapter 9 Conclusion: Thinking Through Slow
Index
