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    EDUC. 456: MODELS OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN EDUCATION
    Fall, 1984
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    Instructor: Dr. Dan Nadaner
    Thursday 4:30 - 8:30
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    LOCATION: ?
    MPX 9511
    PHONE:
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    291-3519
    This course examines issues in the contemporary arts and their relation
    to education. We will seek to question traditional approaches to school
    art teaching and to explore alternative approaches that meet contemporary
    social and educational needs.
    The readings survey leading ideas in contemporary arts education. Photo-
    graphy, film, painting, and video are treated through readings, film, slide,
    and video showings, and critical discussions. If your interest centers around
    another art form (poetry, dance, performance, etc.), I would encourage you to
    bring that interest to our discussions. An interest in the contemporary arts
    is an important prerequisite for the course, but extensive coursework or other
    background
    in
    art is not necessary.
    Outline Of Topics
    1) Problems in art education:
    a)
    history of art education
    b)
    the situation today
    c)
    the gap between education and art
    2) Art criticism for the school.
    3) The social context of art criticism.
    4) Images in the media.
    5) Film and video
    in
    art education.
    6) Using film to study social issues.
    7) Multiculturalism
    in
    art educatiori.
    8) Does painting have a future?
    9) Developing a contemporary art program.
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    EDUC. 456
    Course Requirements
    1.
    Completion of readings and participation in class discussions.
    2.
    A mid-term take-home exam, consisting of a selection of short essay
    questions on major themes
    in
    the course.
    3.
    A project, to be developed in consultation with the instructor, in which
    you design an educational unit
    in
    the contemporary arts for a group of
    people that interests you.
    Readings
    A xerox packet of readings will be distributed, with selections from the
    following works. These books will also be on 3 day library reserve.
    Andrew, J. Dudley. The Major Film Theories.
    Ashton, Dore. American Art Since 1945.
    Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida.
    Chalmers, Graeme. Art Education as Ethnology. Studies In Art Education.
    Corrigan, Phillip.
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    Fuller's Earth. Vanguard, 13, 3, April 1984,
    pp.
    19-20.
    Feldman, Edmund. Becoming Human Through Art.
    Foster, Hal. The Anti - Aesthetic.
    Fuller, Peter. Beyond The Crisis In Art.
    Giffhorn, Hans. Ideologies Of Art Education, Studies In Art Education, 19,2.
    Guilbaut, Serge. How New York Stole The Idea Of Modern Art.
    Hadjincolaov, Nicos. Art History And Class Struggle.
    Jagodzinski, John. Art Education As Ethnology: Deceptive Democracy Or A New
    Panacea? Studies In Art Education.
    Maste, Gerald. Film Theory And Criticism.
    Nadaner, Dan. aT Art and Aesthetics in Education: The Current Situation
    b)
    The Art Teacher As Cultural Mediator.
    c)
    Critique And Intervention: Implications of Social Theory
    For Art Education.
    d)
    Intervention and Irony: Painting In Postmodern Culture.
    e)
    On Art and Social Understanding: Lessons From Alfred
    Schutz.
    f)
    Responding To The Image World: A Proposal For The Art
    Curriculum.
    Nichols, Bill. New Theory In The Classroom. Jump Cut, 24/25.
    Richter, Paul. Modernism and After, Vanguard.
    Sontag
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    , Susan. On Photography.
    Wolff, Janet. Aesthetics And The Sociology Of Art.

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