Better analysis: seeing the wood AND the trees
I've been exploring better ways to teach analysis and evaluation for some time now. A few years ago I stumbled on the idea of zooming in and out which has gone viral and made its way into the teaching zeitgeist. In case you've managed to miss it, the basic premise is that terms like analysis are pretty slippery and hard to tie down and benefit from being explained in a more concrete way. When we read a text, or look at an image, we see it as a distinct whole. We just see the tree. And 'the tree' is hard to [...]