Education

How Photographers Learn: The Psychology of Seeing

Before the shutter, before the settings, before the rules — the eye must first be woken; and the teacher of photography is, before anything else, a teacher of attention.

A Master-of-Education passage through the psychology of learning to see — from the awakening of noticing and the first unease that follows, through the comparing mind and its borrowed eye and the space a vision needs to form, to the experienced eye that hesitates and the instinct it must learn to trust again — and, at every stage, the teacher's role in guiding a learner through it.

Course Overview

As this is a course for teachers and not merely for photographers, every lesson teaches how to guide a learner through this psychology, not simply the psychology itself; and one lesson is offered as a synthesis — the teacher-facing threads of the whole subject drawn together into a single, practical, stage-by-stage guide. The course closes, as a Master-of-Education course must, in the practicum: the point at which the psychology you have studied becomes a lesson you can design, defend, and deliver in a real room, to real learners, at Master's standard.

8
Lessons
Comprehensive modules
21
Quizzes
Test your knowledge
10
Assignments
Practical work
6
Credits
Academic credits
Course Identifier
EDU 461
Department
Education
Effort Required
5–7 hours per week
Length
8 lessons across 4 modules
Prerequisites
Bachelor of Photography

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