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Instructional Design and Engaged Learning

Module Ten - Provoking Learning
with Dissonance, Juxtaposition and Intrigue

We hope to generate curiosity and interest by building lessons around material that is provocative. Dissonance, juxtaposition and intrigue are useful concepts to help guide the lesson development process.

Strange as it may seem, starting a lesson with surprise, uncertainty and some confusion can actually enhance the learning that follows.

Artists have understood this phenomenon for centuries and have learned to employ juxtaposition and dissonance to stimulate thought.

Work with your partner to identify how Rodin used these strategies with his sculpture, the Burghers of Calais. Make a list of 4-5 observations about his techniques.

The capacity to interpret mood and body language is an essential skill for any medical professional. How might this kind of learning activity help to develop that capacity?

	As with numbers, the Internet offers our students remarkably rich collections of images, whether they be photographs, paintings, drawings or posters from the past. Rodin did a sculpture on commission to commemorate a group of town leaders from Calais who volunteered to serve as hostages. What moods, ideas and feelings is he able to communicate about these men and their experience?
Note from the Cantor Foundation at http://www.cantorfoundation.org/Rodin/Gallery/rvg31.html "This hero was part of a dramatic event that occurred in Calais in 1347, during the Hundred Years War. Six leading citizens of Calais volunteered themselves as hostages to the English king Edward III in exchange for his lifting an eleven-month siege on their city. Eustache de Saint-Pierre was the first of six brave citizens to surrender."

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