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Some subjects, such as the visual arts, make teaching in certain modalities seems almost natural (and, of course, I acknowledge that my own learning-style-based bias is showing in that statement); to teach the history of visual arts in a kinesthetic mode seems, I don't know...forced. Or pehaps I'm not clear on how teaching the subject matter in a kinesthetic mode would work.

The course material mentioned taking the classroom to a new location, throuwing a ball while studying, chewing gum during lecture...in each of these cases it occurs to me that the lecture, reading and lecture (again, respectively, are still the primary teaching method, and that the "kinesthetic" activity is secondary at best, and doesn't actually changer the presentation of the subject matter at all.

Nothing against kinesthetic learning per se, I'm just not clear on how one presents art history, for instance, to students beyond showing them work, talking about said work, and presenting texts on these works. You can't eactly let students go and touch the Mona Lisa.

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