G N

FRASER UNIVERSITY

Spring Semester 1999

EDUC 456 - 4

Dr. F. Larsen

Models of the Contemporary Arts

Office: MPX 8631.2

in Education ?

Tel: 291-3163

E01.00 ?

E-mail: larsen@sfu.ca

PREREQUISITE

60 hours of credit. Class is conducted as a seminar/studio, prior background in art not necessary.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Major conception of educational value in the contemporary arts and application of these ideas

to the development of visual arts programs in the schools.

TOPICS

• Current issues (including: Postmodernism, Feminism, Multiculturalism, and First Nations Art)

• Developing personal and collaborative approaches to art-making

• Teaching, responding to, integrating, and evaluating visual art

• Discipline-based art education and other curricula

• The aesthetic dimension

• Children and art

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Class presentation (chapters/ articles from readings) - 25%

2. Personal scrapbook/sketchbook/personal study - 20%

Studio activity (including a lesson plan) - 25%

4. Final essay (re: curriculum proposal) - 30%

REQUIRED TEXTS

Blandy, Doug and Congdon, Kristin (Editors) [1987]. Art in a Democracy. New York and London:

Teachers College Press. ISBN 0-8077-2881-0 (pbk.)

Clark, R. [1998]. An Introduction to Art Education. London, Ontario: Plan B Books.

ISBN 0-9683450-0-X

Smith, Ralph [1995]. Excellence II: The Continuing Quest in Art Education. Reston, Virginia:

National Art Education Association. ISBN 0-937652-87-3