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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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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.