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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?
SUMMER SEMESTER 2005
EDUC
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MODELS OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN EDUCATION
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Jan MacLean
email: jmaclean@sfu.ca
MONDAY 8:30-12:20 in EDB 7500B
PREREQUISITE: 60 hours of credit
COURSE DESCRIPTION
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his course examines the nature, forms, processes, values and conceptions of the contemporary visual arts and
relates these ideas to modernist and postmodernist perspectives and the development and practice of art
education in schools.
Major Course Topics
The course examines the main ideas, themes, approaches, media and guiding assumptions of contemporary art.
Contemporary art involves ways of working that are frequently conceptual, improvisational, exploratory, and
interdisciplinary. Contemporary approaches provide a needed challenge to tradition, privilege and interests and
are legitimate in themselves as art. But also, learning skills and an appreciation of form constitute a powerful
route to understanding. This course critiques and compares modern and postmodern approaches to art with a
view to providing a balanced understanding that is of value to education. Through readings, discussions, and
art activities, students explore the range, meaning and value of art today, and ways in which it can be
developed in the school curriculum.
ASSIGNMENTS
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Term paper ---40%
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Presentation in class of readings and reading log---20%
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Art activities and projects---40%
REQUIRED TEXTS
Eisner, Elliot (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
(ISBN 0 300 09523 6)
Freeland, Cynthia (2002). But is it Art? New York: Oxford University Press.
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