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Johann Amos Comenius: Word and Art

07 Saturday Nov 2015

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Education

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Comenius, Illustrated Textbooks, teaching, word and art

Relief Komensky in Dolany, Czech Republic

Relief Komensky in Dolany, Czech Republic (Photo credit: Michal Manas)

I reread the post I published yesterday and it seems complete. It simply leads to related subjects.

Johann Amos Comenius

However, I added titles to the post and mentioned a related article. The related post is about Czech educator John Amos Comenius (28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) who advocated combining text and a relevant illustration in textbooks. He was the first to do so. In textbooks, the combination of word and art is essential.

Comenius lived after the invention of the printing-press, in the mid 1400s. He could therefore have the books he wrote printed quickly and then add illustrations.

Educator John Comenius might be our best example of persons who realized that the invention of the printing-press could have an immense influence on literacy, which the inclusion of illustrations could enhance.

Adding illustrations was difficult, and they were white and black.

Comenius’ books may now be read online.

I added pictures and a video to invigorate my old post. Here is our link:

Comenius: Orbis Sensualium Pictus (13 November 2011)

Music: Carmina Burana, Carl Orff

Johann Comenius
Johann Comenius

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The Last few Days

04 Sunday Aug 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in Sharing

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, François Boucher, Haydn, Managing CFS, Rococo, teaching

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Woman’s Head, by François Boucher (c. 1750)
François Boucher (29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770)
Rococo artist
 

Dear Readers,

For the last few days, I have not been well.  So it has been impossible for me to write posts.  There have been perturbing events in my life and these have triggered a rather severe episode of fatigue.  In 1976, I caught a flu from which I never fully recovered.  It was the onset of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.  Most of the time, I can manage this limitation sufficiently to write blogs and, if not assigned an unreasonable workload, it did not prevent me from being a productive university teacher.  However, I did not have much of a social life.  There wasn’t enough time.

My students often told me that I was the only professor who realized my course was not the only course they took.  Obviously, I was pacing myself, which turned out to be helpful to my students.  I also prepared my classes long before I taught them so I would always be ready.  Would that I could have made better use of the internet.  During the years I taught, the internet was not what it has become.

I always taught at least one language course and invited students to do the exercises contained in their textbook so I could tell whether or not they had understood.  I did not give them a grade for these exercises, because it was practice.  All were corrected and returned the next time I saw them.  It was useful feedback and a form of communication with each student.  Students who did not understand received private tutoring.

Yesterday, I started writing a blog on “Cupid and Psyche,” a “digression” in Apuleius‘ Golden Ass, but I could not finish it.  It will have to be more concise.

Love to all of you.

Micheline

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