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Education
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Designs for Learning: Art
REGULAR SUMMER SEMESTER 1983
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INSTRUCTOR: Kit Grauer
Wednesdays
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- 5:20 ?
LOCATION: on campus
This course is designed to introduce students to concepts and practices in
art education at both the elementary and secondary levels. Readings,
discussions and studio activities will focus on current theory and practice
from designing and participating in classroom lessons to understanding the
newly revised art curriculum guides used in the schools in British Columbia.
Students should be prepared to be active critics and creators of art.
OUTLINE OF TOPICS
2.. Goals and purposes of art in education.
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- Overview of goals and objectives
- Provincial and local goals
Integration with other curriculum areas
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Approaches to teaching art
THEMES
- topics chosen from the curriculum or students interests
BASICS
- Elements and Principal of Design (such as line, shape, colour, texture,
etc.)
TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS
- Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, fabric
THOUGHTFUL OPINIONS
- thinking, talking and making judgements about art
IMAGINATION AND FEELINGS
- creative expression and aesthetic response
3. Translating theory into practice
- long range planning
- stages of children's development
- approaches to evaluation
- management in an art classroom
TYPICAL REQUIREMENTS
1.
Participation in discussion and activities and completion of assigned readings
2.
A visual/verbal notebook to record the experience of the course and to
further your own thinking about art education.
3.
Development of appropriate lesson plans,