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What is NAB? Philosophy and Content

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What is NAB?

The Old Art Basics
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Child-Centered Approach
Student/Teacher Relationships
Thinking Skills Education
Living Curriculum 
A Living Curriculum
Teacher Designed
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Local Control
Tied to Standards
Visual Thinking Skills
Pluralistic Perspective
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Higher Order Thinking Skills
Content/Basic Thinking
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NAB Content

7 NAB Content Areas
Getting Ready for Visual Thinking
Relaxed Attention
Directed Visualization
Receptive Visualization
Mental Rehearsal
Teaching Suggestions
Bibliography
Visual Thinking
Flexibility and Fluency
Configurational Response
Gestalt and Analytical Perception
Combinatory Thinking
Reflectivity
Teaching Suggestions
Bibliography
Metaphoric Thinking
Physiognomic Interest
Bisociation
Analogy
Disguised symbolism
Teaching Suggestions
Bibliography
Visual Logic
Unity Principle
Ambiguity and Meaning Principle
Control of Direction Principle
Realism Principle
Ecological Principle
Layering
Tensional Principle
Teaching Suggestions
Bibliography
Human Context
Cultural Context
Historical Context
Brain-Based Visual Education
Discovering the Left and Right Sides of Your Brain
Growth
Left Hemisphere's Negative View of Right Hemisphere's Functions
Processes of Left and Right Hemispheres
Creativity and Synchronization of the Brain
Possible Implications for art Education
Pluralistic Perspectives
Crosscultural Commonalities and Interconnectdeness
Individual and Cultural Differences
Local and Global Community Building
Multiple Intelligences
Interpretations of Art History
What is a Strategy?
Contextual Thinking Skills
Glossary
 
 

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