How Photographers Learn: The Psychology of Seeing

The Master-of-Education psychology-of-seeing course of the University, built from the Dean's partial draft Inside the Seeing Mind and written for those who will teach photography rather than merely practise it. It follows the learner's inner journey — the awakening eye, the comparing mind, and the experienced eye — and at each stage teaches the trainee teacher how to guide it: how to awaken noticing before technique, how to protect the first unease, how to redirect comparison toward decisions, how to give a forming vision space, how to name the experienced eye's hesitation, and how to return a skilled photographer to instinct. A supplemental lesson gathers the book's teacher-facing threads into one stage-by-stage guide, and the course closes with a teaching practicum. Eight lessons across four modules, with quizzes and real teaching assignments at Master's standard throughout.