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AE610: Survey of Art Education. Fall 2010. Agenda. Why Art? Contributors Balderdash Discussion of Some Historical Developments APA references Reminders. Theorists. William Bently Fowle Was a teacher who “taught art” in Boston Based art instruction after Geometry
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AE610: Survey of Art Education Fall 2010
Agenda • Why Art? • Contributors Balderdash • Discussion of Some Historical Developments • APA references • Reminders
Theorists • William BentlyFowle • Was a teacher who “taught art” in Boston • Based art instruction after Geometry • Student monitors, drawing to aid in handwriting • William Minifie • Was a teacher who “taught art” in Philadelphia (but only taught for one year) • Geometric and mechanical drawing for industry Other schools-Art taught to help handwriting skills Upper class- Art taught for societal reasons
Theorists • G. Stanley Hall • Psychology/Education • Child Study Movement focus shifted from what could be impressed on the child to what the child could express • More emphasis placed on imagination • Walter Smith • Hired to facilitate instruction in response to compulsory art education by Massachusetts in 1871 • State Director, City Supervisor, Teacher Trainer, and Author • Prescriptive curriculum built from simple to complex
Theorists Group Discussion: Image Selection for the Art Classroom What images do you tend to favor as an artist? What images do you tend to be drawn to use in the classroom? Why do you incorporate images into the classroom? What (if any) images should not be shown in the classroom? • Picture Study • Developed out of desire to teach beauty through art and nature, neglected “modern” art
Theorists • Walter Sargent • Drawing as a language and as a tool with which to think- a revolutionary idea • John Dewey • Ideal school provides physical, emotional, and intellectual freedom which brought creativity into the picture • Creativity learned in art leads to creativity in other areas • Arthur Wesley Dow • Composition/ elements and principles • Systematic instruction to produce a completed art product
Theorists • Bauhaus/ Modern Art • Varied media/ solving creative problems • Viktor Lowenfield • Creative Activity/ Creative and Mental Growth interested in creative and mental growth of students; placed students at the center of instruction and teacher preparation • William Heard Kilpatrick • Art in the service of concept formation (arts as related to other subject areas, project based) • Margaret Naumberg • Art in the subject of mental health (art gives students chance to alleviate/communicate needs
Some Historical Developments • What are developmentally appropriate practices and how are developmentally appropriate practices in education determined for children? • Which type of art instruction do you most agree with or use and why?
“One of the crucial tasks for art educators is not one of finding ways to resist change but, rather, to employ critical procedures by which wise choices may be made among competing proposals for change” (Eisner & Ecker, 1970).
Reminders • Read Timeline (stop at 1870) and complete online response • Both Groups: Presentation slides and hand-outs for Theorists need to be: • Posted on wiki by 4:00 PMOR • Emailed to agalbraith@mca.edu