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