91MON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Summer Semester 2002 ?

EDUC 477 - 4

Dr. Stuart Richmond

Designs for Learning: Art

Office: EDB

8546

Phone: 291-3163

Monday 8:30-12:20 in EDB 7500B ?

D01.00 ?

Email: stuart_richmond@sfu.ca

PREREQUISITE

EDUC 401/402

DESCRIPTION

This course introduces students to the main ideas, skills, materials, resources, understandings, and

organizational concerns involved in teaching art inschools.

TOPICS

The aims of art education: the educational value of art; BC art curriculum; creativity and appreciation;

aesthetics; art history; utilizing the art gallery; personal approaches to creative work in art, including:

drawing, painting, clay, crafts, sculpture /construction, printmaking, photography/ video, mixed

media, found and recycled materials etc.; environmental concerns; local culture; first nations art;

multicultural and gender issues; integrating the arts; managing the art room; curriculum planning;

approaches to teaching; individual and group learning; evaluation of the curriculum and student

learning.

REQUIREMENTS

Completion of class portfolio and related assignments - 50%

2. Gallery visit and critique - 20%

Personal study/ curriculum project - 30%

REQUIRED TEXT

Herberholz, D. & Herberholz, B. (2001).

Artworks for Elementary Teachers: Developing Artistic and

Perceptual Awareness, 9th edition.

McGraw-Hill. [ISBN 0072407077 paperback]