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Arthur Efland's Cognitive Flexibility Theory from the Perspective of Art Education

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Art is a part of the cultural landscape. When it appears as a "ill-structured" discipline full of complexity, uncertainty and fragmentation, it is urgent to have a cognitive ability that is flexible enough to cope with various situations to help learners complete the task of constructing reality. Arthur Efland, an American art educator, puts forward many theories about the cognitive characteristics of art education, among which the theory of "cognitive flexibility" and cognitive lattice structure are regarded as the cognitive thinking characteristics worthy of attention.

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CIPAE 2021: 2021 2nd International Conference on Computers, Information Processing and Advanced Education
May 2021
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ISBN:9781450389969
DOI:10.1145/3456887
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  1. Art Education
  2. Cognitive Flexibility
  3. Cognitive Lattice Structure
  4. Reductive Bias

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