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Author Bramwell-Davis, Prue, author.

Title A different kind of black and white : visual thinking as epistemic development in professional education / by Prue Bramwell-Davis.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 346 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Pre-Script; Introduction; My Relationship with the Study; The Local Setting; A Researcher's Journey; Mapping Interview Accounts about Learning and Drawing; Learning and Epistemic Development in Designing; Engineering Education; Visual and Conceptual Thinking; Metaphor; Drawing and the Drawer's Story; Prehistoric Cave Drawing and Painting; Ars Memoriae and Illuminated Manuscripts; Interlude; Line; Shadow; Perspective; Frame; Space; Conclusions; References; Index; Design as a political activity; Visual thinking; Learning and epistemic development.
Describing the setting as a drama and its stagingThe Royal College of Art (RCA), London; Project-based learning; The beginning and the first circle; The second circle; Structures for the study; Research lenses; Notebook as process; Narrative Inquiry (NI); Doing the interviews; Using the interviews/conversations; Environment; Students' comments about drawing; Translating comments to the wrong type of data; Transforming the field of comments; Learning designing; Projects and learning; Assessment; Adult learners; Experience; Experiential learning; CE/AC and Tacit Knowing.
Learning Seminars and Learning Styles Inventory ActivitiesReflection; Wisdom; 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; Drawing in IDE; Drawing and knowing; Representation; Originality and expression; Overview; Interpretation; The role of the surface; Mental images, images in the mind's eye; Design; Bricolage as method in the management of multiple approachesin a research project.
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.
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Subject Visual learning.
Professional education.
Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Drawing & drawings.
Education.
Educational: Art & design.
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Professional education.
Visual learning.
Other Form: Print version: Bramwell-Davis, Prue. Different kind of black and white. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015 1443877093 9781443877091 (OCoLC)937455309
ISBN 9781443890038 (electronic bk.)
1443890030 (electronic bk.)
1443877093
9781443877091