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A different kind of black and white : visual thinking as epistemic development in professional education / by Prue Bramwell-Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bramwell-Davis, Prue, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual learning.
- Professional education.
- Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Decision making.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Summary:
- Why should we continue to draw by hand when computers and photography can do it for us?Freehand drawing is currently enjoying a widespread renaissance. In this path-breaking study, the act of drawing is explored as a way to foster epistemic development and wise thinking skills.Drawing exposes the connecting processes of perception, by which we make sense of the world, creating and using systems of classification which ultimately create boundaries. By exploring the relationships between metaphor, the mental activity fundamental to language, and the coordination of hand and eye essential for dra
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Pre-Script
- Introduction
- My Relationship with the Study
- Design as a political activity
- Visual thinking
- Learning and epistemic development
- The Local Setting
- Describing the setting as a drama and its staging
- The Royal College of Art (RCA), London
- Project-based learning
- A Researcher's Journey
- The beginning and the first circle
- The second circle
- Structures for the study
- Research Lenses
- Design
- Bricolage as a tool in the management of multiple approaches in a research project
- Notebook as process
- Narrative Inquiry (NI)
- Doing the interviews
- Using the interviews/conversations
- Mapping Interview Accounts about Learning and Drawing
- Environment
- Students' comments about drawing
- Translating comments to the wrong type of data
- Transforming the field of comments
- Learning and Epistemic Development in Designing
- Learning designing
- Projects and learning
- Assessment
- Adult learners
- Experience
- Experiential learning
- CE/AC and Tacit Knowing
- Learning seminars and Learning Styles Inventory activities
- Reflection
- Wisdom
- Engineering Education
- Practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge
- Ways of knowing, kinds of knowledge
- More information, and moving from simple to complex systems
- Employment and employers' requirements in training
- Curricular developments
- Some Renaissance precedents
- Visual and Conceptual Thinking
- Metaphor
- Drawing and the Drawer's Story
- Drawing in IDE
- Drawing and knowing
- Representation
- Originality and Expression
- Prehistoric Cave Drawing and Painting
- Overview
- Interpretation
- The role of the surface
- Mental images, Images in the mind's eye
- Ars Memoriae and Illuminated Manuscripts
- Interlude: Bridge
- Line
- Shadow
- Perspective
- Frame
- Space.
- Conclusions
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-9003-0
- OCLC:
- 951223239
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