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    Seize the Opportunity

    Author(s): Philip Yenawine

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    Understanding Visual Literacy: The Visual Thinking Strategies Approach

    Author(s): Dabney Hailey, Alexa Miller, Alexa and Philip Yenawine

    In D. M. Baylen, & A. D’Alba (eds.), Essentials of teaching and integrating visual and media literacy — Visualizing learning. New York: Springer. 2015.

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    Visual Thinking, Images, and Learning in College

    Author(s): Philip Yenawine and Alexa Miller

    About Campus Magazine, College Student Educators International and Jossey-Bass/Wiley Publishers: Virginia Tech. Volume 19, issue 4, September/October 2014.

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    Visual Thinking, Images, and Learning in College

    Author(s): Philip Yenawine and Alexa Miller

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    Visual Thinking Strategies: Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines

    Author(s): Philip Yenawine

    Harvard Education Press, 2013

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    Visual Thinking Strategies: Learning How to Teach With Art

    Author(s): Philip Yenawine

    Reprint of first chapter of Visual Thinking Strategies: Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines

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    Teaching to the (New) Tests: Benefits of Discussion

    Author(s): Philip Yenawine

    Yenawine addresses Common Core State Standards and the benefits of discussion to reach the goals of the CCSS.

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    Why Do We Teach Art in the Schools?

    Author(s): Peggy Burchenal, Abigail Housen, Kate Rawlinson, and Philip Yenawine

    Originally appearing in the April 2008 issue of NAEA News, the authors respond to an article by Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland

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    Jump Starting Visual Literacy

    Author(s): Philip Yenawine

    This document makes suggestions for selecting images to foster visual literacy, using as a guide Housen's theory of and research into aesthetic development. Beginning readers learn by being taught what they are developmentally ready to understand, what is likely to sustain their interest, and what encourages them to read more deeply while supplying challenges at the right time. This document presents a comparable approach to helping beginning viewers of art develop skills related to looking at and understanding art.

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