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Like Yin and Yang: Inquiring and Knowing in Learning about Art
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The critical inquiry methods used to facilitate learning about art works favour fertile negotiated understandings, multiple perspectives and personally relevant meaning-making. But are these appreciations always valid? What are valid appreciations of art works? This paper argues that combining open inquiry conversations with other, complementary, learning modes can promote informed understandings of art works.
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Visual Thinking Strategies, Critical Inquiry, Socratic Method, Transmission Learning, Art Knowledge.
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