Drawing as a Visual Research Tool and Pedagogical Method

• In Event: Visual Arts as Tool and Method in Educational Research

Abstract

Drawing can be used as a tool for thought in research, teaching and learning. Recent findings in cognitive psychology and neuroscience can help explain how drawing utilizes the many ways in which human cognition is embodied and situated in relationship to the world around us. Examples from the speaker’s own artistic and teaching practices demonstrate how drawing engages and helps to develop a broad range of cognitive and metacognitive processes. Drawing gives visible form to ideas and observations that only emerge through the drawing process itself. Participants will be invited to use drawing to extend and reflect on their own thinking and expand their students’ learning.

Author

• Andrea Kantrowitz, SUNY - College at New Paltz
  Presenting Author