Cognitive Learning Through Knowledge Visualization, Art, and the Geometry of Nature

2019 ◽  
pp. 266-280
Author(s):  
Jean Constant
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Structure ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
3D Graphics ◽  
Scientific Modeling ◽  
Equal Part ◽  
Unit Level ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Mineral Structure ◽  
Specific Modeling

Scientific modeling applied to the study of a mineral structure at the unit level provides a fertile ground from which to extract significant representations. 3D graphics visualization is equal part mathematics, geometry, and design. The geometric structure of 52 minerals was investigated in a specific modeling program to find if meaningful visualization pertaining to the field of art can be extracted from a mathematical and scientific resource. Working with the lines, spheres, and polygons that define crystal at the nanoscale provided the author with an exceptional environment from which to extract coherent visualizations sustainable in the art environment. The results were tested in various interactive platforms and opened a larger debate on cross-pollination between science, humanities, and the arts. Additionally, the experiment provided new ground of investigation for unexpected connections between mathematics, earth sciences, and local cultures.

Knowledge Visualization in Crystal Modeling

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jean Constant
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
3D Graphics ◽  
Equal Part ◽  
Knowledge Visualization ◽  
Cross Pollination ◽  
Local Cultures

3D graphics visualization is equal part mathematics, geometry, and design. Based on the knowledge visualization framework, the author investigates the structure of a mineral to find if meaningful visualization pertaining to the field of art can be extracted from scientific resource. Working with the lines, spheres, and polygons that characterize crystal at the nanoscale provided the author an exceptional environment from which to extract coherent visualizations sustainable in the art environment. The outcome was tested in a variety of interactive platforms and opened a larger debate on cross-pollination between science and arts. Additionally, the experiment provided new ground of investigation for unexpected connections between mathematics, earth sciences, and local cultures.

Transformative Learning and the Arts: A Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 338-355
Author(s):  
Jennifer Blackburn Miller
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Critical Reflections

Between 2005 and 2017 yielded fertile ground for research studies and articles about transformative learning and the arts within the field of adult education. The main questions this article seeks to answer are: What art forms are being used for transformative learning, how are they being used, and with what effect? The article begins by establishing the rationale for Artistic Ways of Knowing and gives a brief summary of the topic. The remainder of the article focuses on transformative learning and is organized around a variety of artistic categories. The conclusion includes critical reflections and suggestions for further applications of this topic, through research, programs, and policy. The overall goal for this literature review is to serve as a foundational source, to gather the research on this topic together, and to provide a springboard for future research in this area.

scholarly journals The Vaulting System of Ukheidar

1910 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Equal Part ◽  
Direct Information ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Structural Methods ◽  
Of Greece

The vaulting system of a Persian palace may seem to be a subject remote from the province of the Hellenic Society. It is not perhaps so remote as it appears. The history of Hellenistic art is closely interwoven with the problems of the Orient, and all evidence is welcome which will help to elucidate a period so obscure, yet of so far-reaching an influence, as that which saw the fusion of Greece with the East after the conquests of Alexander. From the age of the Diadochi the arts emerged profoundly modified. To instance architecture alone, we find the builders in the Greek coast-lands preoccupied with Asiatic structural methods, bringing forth new solutions, modifying, with their quick sense of proportion and of beauty, ancient oriental themes, and giving back to inner Asia as much as they had derived from her. Not one of the great cities of the Diadochi in Mesopotamia or Syria has yet been excavated, and the importance of such fragmentary knowledge of the succeeding civilizations as can be gathered together lies in the fact that they indicate the changes that had taken place during a time of rapid development about which we have no direct information. In this development Greece and Asia bore an equal part, and the lines of interaction are everywhere to be traced. I am not, however, concerned here to disentangle these complex questions, but merely to furnish a few more details that bear upon their oriental aspect.

scholarly journals Connections between Artistic Practice and Experiences in Nature: Considerations for how Art Education Can Engender Ecological Awareness

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Zuzana Vasko
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Sense Perception ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Fertile Ground

Experiences of artistic engagement share many commonalities with those of being immersed in the natural world. Both experiences call upon sense perception, embodiment, the imagination, the emotions, as well as a sense of beauty and the spiritual implications it can bring. These commonalities are of value to education in their own regard, yet when the arts are explored and experienced in relation to the natural world, they have the potential to form fertile ground in which the seeds of a personally involved and deep ecological awareness can grow.

Electron Microscopy in Molecular Biology

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Cecil E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Shadow Casting ◽  
Electron Image ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Very High

The visualization of organic macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and virus components has reached its high degree of effectiveness owing to refinements and reliability of instruments and to the invention of methods for enhancing the structure of these materials within the electron image. The latter techniques have been most important because what can be seen depends upon the molecular and atomic character of the object as modified which is rarely evident in the pristine material. Structure may thus be displayed by the arts of positive and negative staining, shadow casting, replication and other techniques. Enhancement of contrast, which delineates bounds of isolated macromolecules has been effected progressively over the years as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 by these methods. We now look to the future wondering what other visions are waiting to be seen. The instrument designers will need to exact from the arts of fabrication the performance that theory has prescribed as well as methods for phase and interference contrast with explorations of the potentialities of very high and very low voltages. Chemistry must play an increasingly important part in future progress by providing specific stain molecules of high visibility, substrates of vanishing “noise” level and means for preservation of molecular structures that usually exist in a solvated condition.

Creative Problem Solving in Public School Supervision

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Shapiro ◽  
Nelson Moses
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
The Public ◽  
School Supervision ◽  
Team Functioning

This article presents a practical and collegial model of problem solving that is based upon the literature in supervision and cognitive learning theory. The model and the procedures it generates are applied directly to supervisory interactions in the public school environment. Specific principles of supervision and related recommendations for collaborative problem solving are discussed. Implications for public school supervision are addressed in terms of continued professional growth of both supervisees and supervisors, interdisciplinary team functioning, and renewal and retention of public school personnel.

The geometric structure and optical response of gaseous endohedral magnesium-fullerenes

2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (15-17) ◽  
pp. 2691-2704 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Aichinger ◽  
S. A. Chin ◽  
E. Krotscheck ◽  
H. A. Schuessler
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Structure ◽  
Optical Response

Development and Validation of a German Language Unit-Level Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) Scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 852-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Gunnesch-Luca ◽  
Klaus Moser
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
German Language ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Unit Level ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Development And Validation

Abstract. The current paper presents the development and validation of a unit-level Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) scale based on the Referent-Shift Consensus Model (RSCM). In Study 1, with 124 individuals measured twice, both an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) established and confirmed a five-factor solution (helping behavior, sportsmanship, loyalty, civic virtue, and conscientiousness). Test–retest reliabilities at a 2-month interval were high (between .59 and .79 for the subscales, .83 for the total scale). In Study 2, unit-level OCB was analyzed in a sample of 129 work teams. Both Interrater Reliability (IRR) measures and Interrater Agreement (IRA) values provided support for RSCM requirements. Finally, unit-level OCB was associated with group task interdependence and was more predictable (by job satisfaction and integrity of the supervisor) than individual-level OCB in previous research.

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