Art ed readingpresentation
- 1. What Is Art?
- 2. Todays Education System -Students often focus on one right answer
- 3. Structuring a quality art Curriculum -“The essential contribution art makes to our communities is to teach skills and concepts while creating opportunities to investigate and represent ones own experience.”
- 4. Principles 1 and 2 #1: Playing-Learning begins with play -Play must be free #2: Forming Self-Art allows students to understand who they are, and who they may become
- 5. Principles 3 and 4 • #3: Investigation Community Themes-Bring out ones deepest meaning and empathy. • #4: Encountering Difference -Multicultural curriculum allows us to see themes of others
- 6. Principles 5 and 6 • #5: Attentive Living -Artistic thinking is not separate from daily life. • #6: Empowered Experiencing - Help students understand art in larger context.
- 7. Principles 7 and 8 #7: Empowered Making -Must bridge gap between what is “cool” (introduce new artists), and theory and spontaneity #8: Deconstructing Culture -Students aren’t passive recipients of manufactured meaning
- 8. Principles 9 and 10 #9: Reconstructing Social Spaces -Artists must construct new spaces in which caring, courageous communities can emerge #10: Not Knowing-Students will learn that they don’t know everything
- 9. Principle 11 • BELIEVING-Art teachers must believe in what they are teaching. Must get students to believe in themselves
- 10. Activity! • Divide paper into thirds. • When songs begin, start painting until song is over. • Be sure to paint the emotions you feel throughout the song
- 11. Principles of Possibility • These principles should be used as a checklist for art educators to test if material is providing a useful art experience
Editor's Notes
- #4: -Art is an open topic that is always changing.
- #6: -understand the complexities that each person has (i.e. aesthetics, social, and historical contexts. Explore complexities!
- #7: #6- A quality art education gives students the knowledge they need to notice and interpret a wide range of visual practices.
- #12: -Educators must commit to art education