Slow Looking

<p><em>Slow Looking</em> 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. </p>