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Peter Matthews
Experiential Thinking and Reflecting
Drawing as a thinking tool, not just a mark on paper.
Drawing can be a journey which opens up a radical
new way to see, to look, to think.
We are loosing our sensitivity to see the world in which we
live.
Experiential drawing and learning are intimately
interconnected.
In the skin of our fingers
We can see the trail of the wind
It shows us where the wind blew
When our ancestors were created
Navajo poem
“One of the key purposes of sketching in the ideation phase of design is to provide a catalyst to stimulate new and different interpretations. Sketching is fundamental to the cognitive process of design, and it is manifest through a kind of conversation between the designer(s) and their sketches.”
Source: Buxton, Bill, Sketching User Experiences, Morgan Kaufmann, page 115
“Technology does everything for us, so that we no longer have to function in
terms of experience.”
Jack Goldstein
Dr Leonard Hussey’s banjo Inuit floating map
“So what is the hand? It is not an organ, it is a faculty, a
capacity for doing, for becoming a claw or paw, weapon or
compendium…”
Michel Serres, Genesis, University of Michigan Press, 1995, p. 34
Paul Klee, Pedagogical Sketchbook, Introduction and translation by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Faber and Faber London, p.16
“But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words.
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world…”
John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Penguin Books Ltd., 2008, p. 1
How does this interconnect with
teaching and learning?
Some teaching and learning theories that I can draw parallels with:
Humanistic
Gestalt
Cognitivist
Behaviourist
Learning Cycles
Humanistic Gestalt Cognitivist Behaviourist
Knowles
Maslow
Kohler
Wertheimer
Bruner
Ausabel
Thorndike
Skinner
Learning is an
essential process
Learning is about
patterns
Learning is making
connections
Critical reflections
Learning is
incremental
Students learn best
when we create the
optimal conditions for
them
Students learn
best when the
brain’s perceptual
tendencies are
supported
Students learn best
when they can
assimilate new
knowledge into
existing
understanding
Students learn best
with clear rewards
The most effective
pedagogic
approaches are self-
directed
The most
effective
pedagogic
approaches are
holistic
The most effective
pedagogic
approaches are
problem-based
The most effective
pedagogic
approaches are
outcomes based
David Kolb’s Learning Cycle
Illustration by Bill Bragg, Icon magazine,
March 2010 issue, page 106