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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]