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Visual Thinking Strategies

What is VTS?

The key to VTS used by Housen is the Aesthetic Development Interview (ADI), a non-directive, stream-of-consciousness questioning designed to elicit viewers’ thoughts and feelings about a work of art. Open-ended responses are obtained, and like responses are grouped together. The interviewer asks open-ended questions, such as,

“What do you see
in this picture?”

Visual Thinking Strategies, is a teaching method that applies developed art to build critical thinking, communication and visual literacy skills. Teachers facilitate the learner centered discussions of visual art and learners are engaged in observation and meaningful dialogue of art.

This use of facilitated discussion enables students to practice respectful, democratic, collaborative problem solving skills. VTS produces observational and visual literacy growth in all students, and engages students at all levels. Visual Thinking Strategies encourage thoughtful participation and nurtures verbal language skills, while influencing a thoughtful transfer of oral ability to written ability.

History of Visual Thinking Strategies

Visual Thinking Strategies is the result of more than fifteen years of collaboration between cognitive psychologist Abigail Housen, veteran museum educator Philip Yenawine, and their colleagues. As Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art from 1983-1993, Yenawine was primarily concerned with making museum education programs more effective. His research introduced him to the work of Abigail Housen in 1988.

Housen, a Harvard-trained educator and psychologist, conducted empirical research exploring how viewers, experienced and novice, think when looking at art objects. The culmination of her many years of study, Housen?s Theory of Aesthetic Development, identifies five distinct patterns of thinking that correlate to the amount of exposure subjects have had to art. This research became the core of VTS.

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Visual Thinking Improves...

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