Teaching Photography: Tools for the Imaging Educator

by Rand; Glenn

• ISBN13: 9780240807676
• ISBN10: 0240807677
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-03-24
• Publisher: Focal Press

Summary

Finally, a book for you teachers! Because making great photographs does not always translate into an ability to teach effectively. Teaching Photography will show you how to help your students expand their knowledge and abilities in the techniques, the aesthetics, and the way photography fits into a greater world of knowledge, by providing ideas for inspiring conversations and critiques, as well as insightful pointers regarding the learner's perspective in this new world. Teaching Photography approaches photographic education from a point of view that stresses the how and why of the education and not the technique to be taught. * New ideas on critiques, evaluations, and planning *Incorporates student artwork demonstrating direct results from critiquing sessions -- the good and the bad! * Explores how photography fits into a greater world of knowledge and the importance of inspiring classroom discussions * Learn from the interviews with professors who have seen it all

Table of Contents

Foreword	xvii
Mary Virginia Swanson
Introduction	xxi
``Hey Teach... '': Two Histories of Changing Direction and Mindset	3	(8)
From Richard D. Zakia	3	(4)
From Glenn M. Rand	7	(4)
Learning, Knowing, Owning	11	(22)
Learning	12	(3)
Starting Learning	15	(3)
Learning Objectives	18	(2)
Knowing	20	(3)
Owning	23	(1)
Assisting Learning	24	(3)
Expectations of Passing through Learning Levels	27	(1)
Learning is Change	28	(1)
Humor	29	(1)
Who is Responsible for Learning?	29	(1)
Learning Photography	30	(3)
Asking Questions: Turning Inquiry into Knowledge	33	(16)
Who is Asking What?	34	(2)
A Method to Ask Questions	36	(3)
Ask Early	37	(1)
Use Understandable Words	37	(1)
Get an Understandable Answer	38	(1)
Sequencing Questions and Answers	39	(1)
Answering Questions	39	(2)
Time	41	(1)
How to Answer	42	(3)
Who Answers?	45	(1)
Learning from Questions	46	(1)
The Answering Imperative	47	(2)
Technique Education Tools	49	(22)
Teaching to a Moving Target	50	(1)
Technology and Technique	51	(1)
A Philosophy of Tools in Photography	52	(1)
Learning the Tools	53	(5)
Presentation Technique	58	(1)
Lecture	58	(2)
Note Taking	60	(1)
Demonstrations	61	(1)
Preparing for Demonstrations	62	(3)
Laboratories	65	(2)
Correcting Technique	67	(1)
Knowing and Perfecting Technique	68	(3)
Creativity Education	71	(24)
Aesthetics, Perception, and Meaning	72	(4)
Communicating a Unique Voice	76	(2)
Technique versus Creativity	78	(2)
Breathing in Photography	80	(1)
Different or Creative	81	(1)
Using Art	82	(2)
Learning Creativity from Nonlinearity	84	(4)
Watch Out! They're Stopping Creativity	88	(1)
Building Outhouses	89	(3)
Creative Success	92	(3)
Understanding the Nature of Problems, Solutions, and Assignments	95	(28)
Structure of Problems	96	(3)
Types of Problems	99	(5)
Technique	99	(1)
Puzzles	100	(1)
Experimenting	101	(1)
Artistic	102	(1)
Paradoxes	103	(1)
Solutions	104	(1)
Creative Solutions	105	(1)
Types of Solution Strategies	106	(3)
Types of Solutions	109	(3)
Discovery	109	(1)
Evolution/Revolution	110	(1)
Innovation/Invention	110	(1)
Resolution	111	(1)
Tools for Solving Problems	112	(3)
Logic	112	(1)
Rote	113	(1)
Reduction	113	(1)
Chance	114	(1)
Enlightenment	114	(1)
Visual and Verbal Problem Solving	115	(1)
Feedback	115	(1)
Assignments	116	(3)
Model Approach for Building an Assignment	119	(4)
Critique...Advancing Learning with Words	123	(22)
Using Existing Effort to Expand Learning	124	(1)
Celebration of Students' Efforts	125	(1)
Evaluation Points	126	(2)
Going Negative	128	(1)
Jumping-Off Points	128	(1)
Preparing the Critique	129	(2)
Setting the Parameters	131	(4)
Critique for Newer Learners	132	(3)
Critiquing without Words	135	(3)
Participation	138	(3)
Energy	141	(1)
Methodology	141	(4)
Place	141	(2)
Procedure	143	(1)
Expectations	143	(2)
Measuring Education... Tests, Grades, and Evaluations	145	(24)
For the Learner	146	(1)
The Test	146	(1)
Functions of Tests	147	(2)
What Tests Can and Cannot Tell Us	149	(2)
What to Test	151	(1)
Constructing Test Questions	152	(3)
Nontraditional Testing	155	(1)
Grading	156	(5)
Success and Failure	161	(3)
Assigning Final Grades	164	(1)
You Gotta Give Grades	165	(4)
Evaluating Education	169	(22)
Measuring Variations	170	(2)
Types of Evaluations	172	(1)
Student Evaluations	172	(3)
Administrative Teacher Evaluations	175	(1)
Professional Development Plans	176	(4)
Designing Instruments for Evaluation	180	(2)
Evaluation of the Program	182	(1)
Program Reviews	183	(1)
An Assessment Rubric	184	(2)
Accreditation	186	(5)
The Environment	191	(30)
Relationships	192	(1)
Students as People	192	(3)
Improvisation vs. Rigidity	195	(1)
Anxiety	195	(1)
Caveats about Teaching Methods	196	(1)
An Equality of Rights	197	(1)
Perception and Proxemics	198	(1)
Limits of Educational Spaces	199	(5)
Vision	199	(2)
Lighting	201	(1)
Sound	202	(1)
Sonic Territory	203	(1)
Complexity and Time	204	(1)
The Psycho-Social Limits	205	(4)
Social Limits	206	(1)
Psychological Limits	207	(1)
Changeability	208	(1)
Personal	209	(1)
Comfort	209	(1)
Class Size	209	(1)
Considerations for Today's Education	210	(2)
Going from Solo to Team	212	(1)
The First Class	213	(2)
Expanding the Learning Environment	215	(6)
Workshops	215	(4)
Online	219	(2)
Planning and Changing	221	(28)
The Philosophy of Why	222	(2)
Change Happens	224	(2)
Planning for Change	226	(4)
The Sciences of Natural Philosophy	226	(3)
Surfing	229	(1)
Categories of Planning	230	(1)
Planning Steps	231	(1)
Resource Inventory	232	(3)
Putting the Implementation Puzzle Together	235	(3)
Planning and Implementation Models	238	(4)
Curricular Design	242	(2)
Changing Curriculum to the Digital Age	244	(5)
Support Activities	249	(20)
Administration	249	(3)
Politics	252	(1)
Budget	253	(2)
Professional Development	255	(2)
Mentoring	257	(3)
Being a Teacher-Mentor	258	(1)
Making the Most Out of Being a Mentee	259	(1)
Working with Industry	260	(1)
Using Textbooks	261	(5)
Using Technology to Help Learners	266	(3)
The Profession... So You Want to Teach	269	(24)
The First Teaching Position	270	(1)
Finding a Position	271	(3)
Vita and Resume	274	(2)
Portfolio	276	(2)
References	278	(1)
Positive Language	279	(1)
Screening	279	(1)
Interviewing	280	(2)
Promotion, Tenure, and Retention	282	(5)
Publish or Perish	287	(2)
Being Professional	289	(1)
Service to the Academy	290	(1)
Service to the Community	291	(2)
Teachers on Teaching	293	(32)
Roy R. Behrens	293	(2)
Corinne Rose	295	(3)
On Teaching Photography	295	(3)
John Fergus-Jean	298	(2)
Image and Afterimage	298	(2)
Misun Hong	300	(1)
Sean Perry	301	(2)
A Chance to Be Lucky...of Game Theory and Good Photographs	301	(2)
Mariah Doren	303	(2)
George DeWolfe	305	(1)
David Page	306	(1)
Elaine O'Neil	307	(3)
Why I Don't Give Grades	307	(3)
Martin Springborg	310	(1)
Studio Arts Mentorship	310	(1)
Inga Belousa and Alnis Stakle	311	(4)
Guidelines for the Emerging Model of Contemporary Visual Arts Education	313	(2)
Ralph Masullo	315	(1)
Learning to Teach	315	(1)
Peter Glendinning	316	(2)
M.K. Foltz	318	(3)
The Importance of a Global World-View for Educators in Photography	318	(3)
Elizabeth Fergus-Jean	321	(2)
Ralph Hattersley	323	(2)
Notes for the Faculty of the Department of Photography	323	(2)
Appendix Example Assignments	325	(10)
Gary Wahl	325	(1)
Handmade Negatives	325	(1)
J Seeley	326	(3)
The 2-Headed Camera: An Experiment in Collaboration	326	(2)
The Assignment	328	(1)
Jeff Van Kleeck	329	(4)
Images about One Thing [or the obsessive artist in search of the sublime]	329	(4)
Irma Martinez-Sizer	333	(2)
Mail or Correspondence Art, a Two-Part Project	333	(2)
Authors' Biographies	335	(2)
Bibliography	337	(4)
Indexes	341	(3)
Photographers Index	341	(1)
Quotations and Contributors Index	342	(2)
Subject Index	344