IMON FRASER UN! VERSITY

Summer Semester 2002 ?

EDUC 456 - 4 ?

Dr. Stuart Richmond

Models of the Contemporary Arts

Office: EDB 8546

in Education ?

Phone: 291-3163

Wednesday 8:30-12:20 in EDB 7500B ?

D01.00 ?

Email: stuart_richmond@sfu.ca

PREREQUISITE

60 hours of credit

DESCRIPTION

Major conceptions of educational value in the contemporary art and application of these ideas to the

development of visual arts programs in the schools.

TOPICS

Contemporary ideas about art and art education; developing personal approaches to art making:

journal, sketchbook, photography, clay, bricolage, sculpture, painting, etc; art and ecology; beauty

and western aesthetics; world art traditions and multicultural education; eastern aesthetics; gender

and art; the aims of art education; responding to art; teaching art; histories of art; individual and

collaborative learning; integrating the arts; evaluation of learning.

REQUIREMENTS

Class presentation of chapter from readings - 20%

Personal study of artist/movement/curriculum - 40%

Studio activities and projects - 40%

REQUIRED TEXTS

Gablik, Suzi (1992).

The Reenchantment of Art.

Thames and Hudson.

Grande, John K., (1994).

Balance:Art and Nature.

Black Rose Books.

Paley, Nicholas (1995). Finding Art's place: Experiments in Education and Contemporary Culture.

Routledge.