Slow Looking, Shari Tishman
Slow Looking, Shari Tishman
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Slow Looking
The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation

Author: Shari Tishman

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2026

Categories: Nonfiction, Education

Synopsis

Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active cognitive opportunities for meaning-making and critical thinking that may not be possible though high-speed means of information delivery. Addressing the multi-disciplinary applications of this purposeful behavioral practice, this book draws examples from the visual arts, literature, science, and everyday life, using original, real-world scenarios to illustrate the complexities and rewards of slow looking.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luca on March 06, 2019

I get to know this book by the wonderful work that the author (S.Tishman) did in Harvard project zero about critical thinking and art. I did not know much about what the book was going to be about, but I just wanted to know more about the thoughts and ideas of the author. The book is a little gem abo......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on March 20, 2020

This book was recommended to me by my docent friends at the SAAM. I think they read it for a book club. I liked the first half of the book better than the second half because it seemed more relevant to what I was wanting out of it. The second part was more theoretical and textbook like. My takeaway......more

Goodreads review by Richfield on November 22, 2022

Enjoyed the first half over the second. First half (especially Chapters 2-3) gives ideas and suggestions on how to slow look. From Slow Walking observations to slow journalism. Second half was more on the educational history/background to justify slow looking.......more

Goodreads review by Estefania on October 24, 2022

I read this for my university thesis. It was interesting, over all the documents I have read about slow looking this one feels like the most complete of them, making it incredibly necessary.......more

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