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Example of Instruction Directed at Student's Left Hemispheric Mode of Thought

 

Example, 9th grade drawing

Your assignment is to make a list of important things in your life.

(Listing is logical parsing without visual configuration reference)

From this list you are to make a good drawing

(Verbal label with unknown visual and creative meaning)

of the significant symbols in your life and

(No visual thinking process taught)

combine them as an expressive self portrait.

 

(Literal commercial symbols mistaken for need to invent original evocative visual forms)

 

Principles

1. Metacontol

Verbal Instructions

Visual Instructions

Betty Edward's Principle

Process Specific Hemispheres

I. Process Specific Functions

II. Process Specific Functions

2. Artists' Methods

Thinking Modes

3. Right Mode Processes

Left Hemispheric Mode Problems

Right Hemispheric Mode Problems

4. Visual Cognition

Basic Knowledge

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