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EDUCATtQN 477_J3
DESIGNS FOR LEARNING : ART
FALL 1977
Instructor: B. Borsos
The basis of this course is to introduce Art Education on
a level that anybody is able to understand, regardless of personal
knowledge or any previous experience.
This is necessary because many teachers are uncomfortable
teaching art, owing to careless and mostly irresponsible remarks
from their-own teachers, about their own dissability in art.
Based on the idea that to teach art in elementary and inter-
mediate levels one does not have to be an artist but rather an
imaginative and careful leader of activities.
Therefore, this course will concentrate on simple technical
know-how of materials and equipment, by introducing Drawing,
Painting, Printing, Modeling, Pottery and Puppetry on a ready-
to-take-home, classroom level to foster confidence In the teacher.
To encourage further development, the Philosophy and psychology
of art education will be introduced by the application of art to
other subjects for a comprehensive aesthetic education.
All students will receive a book list for reading with notes,
articles and handouts as the course progresses.
Requirements:
I .
Class attendance.
3.2.
A
Selected
finished
finished
scrapbook
works
(notes,
3D.
i
llustrations, etc.)
4.5.
Completed
Two paper
course
p
resentations
evaluation
(to be
questionnaires.
established by Prof.)
The final result of this course should manifest itself in
teachers who can teach art with confidence and imagination, while
maintaining a tendency for research to build on this established
base, raiding personal aesthetic understanding and elevating teacher
competence in "Art Education".