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EDUCATION 477-4?

DESIGNS FOR LEARNtNG :

ART

SPRING 1979

Instructor: B. Borsos

The basis of this course Is to introduce Art Education on

a level that anybody Is able to understand, regardless of pórsonal

knowledge or any previous experience.

This Is necessary becuse many teachers are uncomfortable

teaching art, owing to careless and mostly Irresponsible remarks

from their-own teachers, about their own dissability In art.

Based. on the Idea that to teach art in elementary and Inter-

mediate levels one does not have to be an artist but rather an

Imaginative and careful leader of activities.

Therefore, this course will concentrate on simple technical

know-how of materials and equipment, by Introducing Drawing,

Painting, Printing, Modeling, Pottery and Puppetry on a ready-

to-take-horns, classroom level to foster confidence in the teacher.

To encourage further development, the philosophy and psychology

of art education will be Introduced by the application of art to

other subjects for a comprehensive aesthetic education.

All students will receive a book list for reading with notes,

articles and handouts as the course progresses.

Requirements:

1.

Class attendance.

2.

A finished scrapbook (notes, illustrations, etc.)

3.

Selected finished works 31).

4. Two paper presentations (to be established by Prof.)

5.

Completed course evaluation questionnaires.

The final result of this course should manifest itself in

teachers who can teach art with confidence and imagination, while

maintaining a tendency for research to build on this established

base, raiding personal aesthetic understanding and elevating teacher

competence in "Art Education".

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University of Alberta (McGraw-hill Ryerson Ltd.) 1977

"CREATIVE and MENTAL GROWTH" by Vlktor Lowenfeld

The MacMillan Company, New York,

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York.

"ART and EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE" by Irving Kaufman,

1966

"CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS AS DIAGNOSTIC AIDS" by Joseph H. DiLso, M.D.

Brunner/hazel Publishers, New York,

"ART AND VISUAL PERCEPTION" by Rudolf Arnheim

University of California Press,

1974.

Magazines:

"School Arts"

50 Portland Street,

r'ser,

Mass.

"Art & Craft" In Education,

Ewans Brothers Ltd.,

Montague House, RussellSquare,

LONDON, W.C.I, England.