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EDUCATION 477-4 Designs for Learning: Art
INSTRUCTOR: R. Fransila
SEMESTER: Spring, 1980
Experiences to promote personal artistic development and professional competency
will form the major focus of Education 477. The course is designed to help
teachers to develop qualitative art programs at the classroom level. Although
art instruction is open to all students, teachers with inadequate art foundations
are not able to nurture the kind of sensitivity, knowledge, and interest in
their pupils necessary for creative growth. A teacher who has an adequate
art background and who has developed a personal style will have a stronger
basis for developing a meaningful program and will be more apt to promote
and justify their program in the school.
Education 477 will focus on five areas considered vital for developing qualitative
art programs:
1)
Studio experience in drawing, ceramics, printmaking, and fibres.
Students will be required to carry the activities to completion
at a mature level.
2) A review of contemporary art education philosophy.
3) Curriculum construction and instructional methods.
4)
Evaluation procedures.
Course Requirements
1.
Studio experience: Attendance and participation at all studio sessions, and
completion of all assigned practical work. Personal artistic growth, interest
and attitude will be taken into consideration.
2. Written: One paper of approximately 12 pages in response to unit on curriculum
construction and evaluation procedures. The papers are to be clear, concise, and
adequately annotated.
3.
Oral: Each student is to set one seminar discussion related to art education
philosophy. Students will be encouraged to utilize visual aids in their
presentations.
Required Texts
Elementary
Cornia, Ivan, Stubbs, Charles and Winters, Nathan 1976. Art Is Elementary:
Teaching Visual Thinking Through Art Concepts Utah Brigham Young University Press
(Only those students who are planning to teach at the elementary level need
purchase this reference)
Secondary
Tritten, Gottfried 1975. Teaching Color and Form in Secondary Schools New York
Van Nostrand Reinhold.
(Only those students who are planning to teach at the secondary level need
purchase this text)
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All Levels
Lowenfeld, Viktor, and Brittain, Lambert 1965. Creative and Mental Growth
New York: Macmillan
Stake, Robert (ed) 1975. Evaluating the Arts in Education New York: American
Book Company
Recommended Texts
Efland, Arthur (ed) 1976. Guidelines for Planning Art Instruction in the
Elementary
Schools of Ohio: Ohio Dept. of Education
Eisner, Elliot 1970. Educating Artistic Vision New York: Macmillan
Eisner, Elliot :1979. The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation
of School Programs New York: Macmillan
Mattil, Edward 1965. Meaning in Crafts Englewood: Prentice Hall
Wachowiak, Frank 1977. Emp
hasis Art New York: Thomas Crowell
Journals
Art Education: Journal of the National Art Education Association 1201 Sixteenth
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
The Journal of Aesthetic Education University of Illinois Press 1002 W. Green
Street, Volana Illinois