Milkova, Teaching and Learning with Collections of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (2018)

Description: This publication outlines five models for teaching with original works of art across academic disciplines. It highlights content-related curricular connections, as well as how art engagement can develop or enhance specific skills and thinking [...]

Museum Staff, Oberlin College|

Visual Thinking, Art, and University Teaching Across Disciplines

Description: Wondering how Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) could work in your field? Dabney Hailey shares her experiences facilitating VTS discussions for a wide variety of surprising disciplines. Visual Thinking Strategies is a museum pedagogy practice [...]

Museum Staff, Oberlin College|

Visual Analysis How-To – Nasher Museum of Art

Description: Outlines the basics of Visual Analysis, a key component of close-looking and meaning-making when engaging in visual material, from the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.   Submitted by: Oberlin College Click the following [...]

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Visual Thinking, Images, and Learning in College

Description: Philip Yenawine and Alexa Miller introduce the practice of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) and explain how class discussions using the art-based pedagogical model support the development of critical thinking not just in the arts [...]

Museum Staff, Oberlin College|

Using Images in the History Classroom

Description: This chapter describes the challenges and benefits of working with images in a history classroom. The first part indicates the complexity of helping students use images as historical evidence; the second argues that close [...]

Museum Staff, Oberlin College|

Pedagogic Approaches to Teaching with Art in the Sciences

Description: Informed by interactions with STEM faculty and pedagogic emphasis on active, inquiry-based learning that also touches on the creative aspects of science, this hand-out distinguishes four kinds of interactions with art: skill-building, thematic, problem-based [...]

Museum Staff, Oberlin College|