using arts-based learning to help students learn graphs katherine m. sauer
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Using Arts-Based Learning to Help Students Learn Graphs Katherine M. Sauer Metropolitan State University of Denver [email protected] SEA Annual Conference November 15 th – 17 th 2012 New Orleans, LA. For economists, graphs are useful and - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Using Arts-Based Learningto Help Students
Learn Graphs
Katherine M. SauerMetropolitan State University of Denver
SEA Annual Conference November 15th – 17th 2012 New Orleans, LA
For economists, graphs are useful and elegant tools for depicting information.
For many students, graphs are just a bunch of lines that cross at random places.
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More Practice Problems?
An alternative approach:
Arts-Based Learning
the incorporation of artistic expression into pedagogies for learning other disciplines
Why?
Nissley, N. (2010) Arts-based learning at work: Economic downturns, innovation upturns, and the eminent practicality of arts in business. Journal of Business Strategy 31(4): 8-20.
It is becoming increasingly popular in business schools corporations
as a way to develop /foster skills for communication creative thinking and leadership.
The art of management: Business has much to learn from the arts. The Economist. February 17, 2011. Print Edition.
Studying the arts can help
“businesspeople communicate more eloquently”
“companies learn how to manage bright people”
“business become more innovative”
How?
Taylor, S.S. & D. Ladkin (2009) Understanding arts-based methods in managerial development. Academy of Management Learning & Education 8(1): 55-69.
Four main ways
1. Skills Transfer
2. Projective Techniques
3. Illustration of Essence
4. Making
Using “Illustration of Essence” to help students learn graphs
You’ll be shown a series of slides containingartistic representations of graphs we’ve worked with this semester.
Your task is to:
Instructions to students in groups:
Identify the type of graph
shown
Explain which elements of the artistic
representation led you to your answer
Ways to use this approach:- in class (50 minutes)- homework - piecemeal
Extension:
Students create their own artistic version of the graph they find the most challenging.
The Economics & Art Project
Digital slideshows of images of artistic works that relate to various economic concepts (e.g. money & banking, role of government, labor).
https://intra.krannert.purdue.edu/sites/econandart/Pages/Home.aspx
- developed by Michael Watts- hosted online by Purdue University
Questions? Comments?
Keep in touch:
@yogiconomist
Katie Sauer Hart
303-556-3037
Katherine Sauer, Ph.D.