This book explores the pedagogical applications of critical thinking in art education and scholarship. In the first part of the book, the author delves into the ways that arts-based educational research has incorporated critical thinking in order to illuminate the context for the subsequent study. The second half of the book focuses on the essay as a genre used in creative nonfiction and film in order to enact the concept of critical thinking in art education. In this way, the book sheds light on a new landscape of thinking arts education and thinking scholarship through the essay that is practiced in creative nonfiction and cinema.

Redefines critical thinking in a way that applies to art and its education Draws on noology and the work of Gilles Deleuze Locates the essay as an observable site of thinking in art

Autorentext

Stephen Morrow is an independent scholar and artist living in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: There Are No Genres.- Chapter 2: Thinking Schools & Scholarship.- Chapter 3: Noo-Ology & Recklessness.- Chapter 4: Of ABER & Essai.- Chapter 5: Filmmakers Intermingled.- Chapter 6: Customary Conclusion.