Using art to deepen learning across school disciplines. Visual thinking strategy vts castellani art museum. Philip yenawine is the cofounder of visual understanding in education vue and the. Visual thinking strategies vts is an inquirybased teaching method developed by philip yenawine 20, former education director of new yorks museum of modern art, and abigail housen, a cognitive psychologist in the harvard graduate school of education.
Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Art and cocreator of the visual thinking strategies vts curriculum, discusses his new book. Parts of this article are excerpted with permission from his books visual thinking strategies. Philip yenawine, former education director of new yorks museum of modern art and cocreator of the vts curriculum, writes engagingly about his years of experience. About the author philip yenawine is cofounder of visual understanding in education, a nonprofit research organization that trains teachers to use vts. Yenawine describes what vts is in his latest book, visual thinking strategies. Beginning readers learn by being taught what they are developmentally ready to understand, what is likely to sustain their interest, and what encourages them to read more deeply while supplying challenges at the right time. Using art to deepen learning across school disciplines 9781612506098. Using art to deepen learning across school disciplines 20.
Using art to deepen learning across school disciplines and visual thinking strategies for. Visual thinking strategies as a better way to learn in. Publications by philip yenawine visual thinking strategies. Visual thinking strategies allows teachers to help students grasp unfamiliar material, define new problems and find innovative solutions collaboratively, while giving students what yenawine calls permission to wonder, full of reallife and classroom examples, this is an insightful and inspiring book, valuable to schoolteachers, museum. An interactive visual thinking strategies demonstration will illuminate both topics. Visual thinking strategies harvard education publishing.
It uses a learnercentered method to examine and find meaning in visual art through a sequence of carefully selected fine art images. Philip yenawine, former education director of new yorks museum of. Visual thinking strategies allows teachers to help students grasp unfamiliar material, define new problems and find innovative solutions collaboratively, while giving students what yenawine calls permission to wonder, full of reallife and classroom examples, this is an insightful and inspiring book, valuable to schoolteachers, museum educators and parents alike. Abigail housen and philip yenawine developed visual thinking strategies vts.
Designed by art educator philip yenawine and developmental psychologist abigail housen, vts relies on childrens natural ability to observe, using imagery as the starting point for learning. Philip yenawine is cofounding director with cognitive psychologist abigail housen of visual understanding in education, a non profit educational research organization that develops and studies programs that teach teachers to use art to teach thinking and communication skills. For the past two decades, the overall discourse regarding visual thinking strategies vts has been the subject of rather thorny debate. Distinguished museum educator philip yenawine presents a persuasive argument for using the art discussion approach called visual thinking strategies vts to develop the sophisticated thinking skills required by the common core. Visual thinking strategies as a means to meet common core. Apr 29, 2014 for the past two decades, the overall discourse regarding visual thinking strategies vts has been the subject of rather thorny debate. Visual thinking strategies vts challenges the standard model of teaching by encouraging a reflectionandresponse style of learning. Philip yenawine, former education director at the museum of modern art and cocreator of the visual thinking strategies vts curriculum, discusses his new book.
Visual thinking strategies vts is an elementary school curriculum developed by abigail housen and philip yenawine. How to teach visual thinking strategies to your students. His newest book, visual thinking strategies for preschool. In this sequel to his popular book, visual thinking.
Eloquently written and easily accessible, the book is organized in a. This is a wonderful book to read before you try the visual thinking strategies with a class. Dabney hailey, alexa miller, alexa and philip yenawine in d. Philip yenawine is the cofounder of visual understanding in education vue and the coauthor of the vts curriculum.
Harvard education press whats going on in this picture. The oftencited conversation between philip yenawine and danielle rice at the 1999 national docent symposium published in 2002 productively drew out many of the disagreements about the role of information in museum teaching, especially with beginning. Philip yenawine, former education director of new yorks museum of modern art and cocreator of the curriculum outlined in visual thinking strategies harvard education press, 20, writes engagingly about his years of experience with young students in the classroom. The book shows how vts can be easily and effectively integrated into elementary classroom lessons in just ten hours of a school year to create learnercentered environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions. Philip yenawine this document makes suggestions for selecting images to foster visual literacy, using as a guide housens theory of and research into aesthetic development.
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