& Science

1. The Art &Science of Teaching/Learning

2. The Theory of Mediated Learning Experience Teaching: To act as a mediating agent, selecting, organizing, and transforming stimuli emitted by the environment as guided by one’s intentions and desire to nurture others’ learning and development and, ultimately, their cultural understanding and human potential beyond immediate needs Learning: To develop with assistance one’s ability to participate effectively (to give & receive, to assimilate & accommodate, to adapt actions) in an ever-changing world through awareness of needs within & beyond shared learning experiences Reuven Feuerstein

3. TheArtof Mediated Learning What comes naturally when we nurture others or participate in learning experiences • intentionally focusing others’ attention on specific objects, thoughts, or events • sharing our cultural values and meaning • Transcending (going beyond) the immediate situation

4. Great Cooking without a recipe

5. TheScienceof MediatedLearning Combining knowledge of how we learn effectively with the art of mediated learning • Using a shared vocabulary for metastrategic knowledge about the hidden rules of learning as they affect cognition, motivation, & affect • Helping others experience & define their personal learning problems & then develop strategies to overcome • Helping to launch the world

6. Great cooking with a recipe

7. Learning as Acquisition • Concept Development • Learner as Constructor of Knowledge • Individual Possession • Transmission of Knowledge from Mediator to Learner

8. Learning as Participation • Community Building • Learner as Apprentice • Mutuality • Thinking out loud with teacher/mediators and other learners

9. Less Effective Mediated Learning Experiences

10. Effective Mediated Learning Experiences Participation Acquisition &

11. Art & Science of Mediated Learning Experimentation Reflection Mediated Learning Interactions Book-based Knowledge Intentions Experience-based Knowledge BeliefSets PriorTheoretical Knowledge

12. a Case Study My Life An Art Project How do you see yourself? “Write” about your life using visual vocabulary so others can “read” your emotional and intellectual expressions of yourself.

13. Carol’s BeliefAn Approach to Art Therapy Carol shared that she helps her students create an aesthetic awareness, heightened sense of self-concept and human dignity [a feeling that] I am a person

14. Propositioning We do not either speak or think in words or signs only, but in words or signs referring to one another in a particular manner….Without a proper interrelation of its parts, a verbal utterance would be a mere succession of names, a word-heap, embodying no propositions…. We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think.” (Hughlings-Jackson, 1915, as cited in Sacks, 1990)

16. The Essenceof Mediated Learning with an Underachiever So you’ve got to be, you have to be led, if you are working with children with special needs and children with problems. You have to be flexible, you have to think on your feet, and you have to change direction within a split second, and then you check if you are taking everyone along with you.

17. What’s Next? Further develop ideas grounded in the Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty)