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S.I.T.E. 1982

Educ. 361-4 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TEACHING

THE ARTS IN EDUCATION

SUMMER SESSION 1982

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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Bob Walker

Monday/Thursday 1:00 - 4:50

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LOCATION: on campus

This course is composed of the SITE lectures and related seminars. The

seminars will focus on the educational challenges posed by the ideas presented

in the lectures.

Course Requirements:

Students will be expected to attend the SITE lectures and to participate

in the seminars.

In addition each student will complete a journal or course notebook made

up of separate entries for the various lectures and related seminars.

The final journal entry is to take the form of a short summative paper

(6-10 typewritten pages) which should consider some of the following

questions:

1.

What are the educational challenges posed by the ideas

presented in the lecture?

2.

How have the lectures contributed to our understanding of

children's thinking?

3.

How can the arts contribute to general education?

4.

Is there any evidence of a perceptual connection between

the visual arts and music?

This final paper could follow a theme of special interest to the student,

i.e. music, visual arts, dance, etc.

Graduate students will be expected to develop the final paper to a greater

length and to consider the following topics or themes: the relationship

of visual and auditory perception and artistic thinking and the accepted

and established view of perception and thinking. What is the nature of

communication prompted by auditory perception?

Other topics of special interest to the student will be considered.

Selected course readings will be supplied throughout.