Gwen Shaw, Art History doctoral candidate and Contributing Writer for Visible Pedagogy, on experiential learning and how Graduate Center​ instructors can integrate site visits into their teaching:

In every class I have taught, I have always included at least one mandatory field trip or site visit. It’s one of my only old-fashioned, stodgy art history tenets: I believe the experience of a work of art is profoundly different, and better, in person than on a screen, via a book, or on a projector in the classroom. One of the benefits of teaching in New York City and the surrounding area is the rich selection of museums and cultural institutions, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Museum of Modern Art, from the Museum of the City of New York to the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA).

 

Read Gwen’s post in full at the Visible Pedagogy Commons site.