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Education 488-4: ?
THINKING WITH IMAGES:
THE VISUAL ARTS IN EDUCATION
SUMMER SESSION 1982 ?
Instructor: Dr. Dan Nadaner
Tuesday and Friday, 1-4:50 ? Location: ?
On campus
Thinking With Images, as part of the SITE program on artistic
thinking, explores the role of visual images in education. We will
examine several points of view on the nature of visual imagery; we will
see how the visual images of daily experience, dreams, and the imagination
are developed in the visual arts; and we will identify the roles that
artistic images can play throughout the school curriculum. The course
format will combine discussions with hands-on exercises in working with
visual images. No prior experience in making art is required for these
exercises.
Outline of Topics
1)
The Nature of Mental Imagery.
Discovering our personal imagery.
Research on children's imagery.
2)
Developing Imagery Through Drawing.
Details, points of view, and the big picture.
The image as metaphor: Political cartoons,
philosophical cartoons.
3)
The Imagery of Painting.
Painting and
Painting and
4)
Communicating Imagery
Representing
Stereotyping
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Educational Implicati
dream imagery.
the structure of feeling.
Through Film.
the flow of imagery.
vs. authenticity.
DnS: Art At The Core
- Of The Curriculum.
Imagery in science and environmental studies.
Imagery in reading and writing.
Imagery in social studies.
Imagery in multi-cultural education.
Course Requirements
Participation in discussion and activities, and completion of
assigned readings, is the basic work of the course. Specific requirements
are:
1)
A paper of no more than six pages. This paper should discuss an aspect
of visual imagery that is of special interest to the student, using course
readings as references; and
2)
A proposed project for the school curriculum, which would involve
collecting, creating, or criticizing visual images.
(readings on reverse)
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Required Readi
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Robert Mckim Experiences in Visual Thinking. Monterey, Calif..:
Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1980;
Reserve Reading
Course readings will be selected from the following works, on
two-hour reserve inthe library.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Vj_sual Thinking.
Atkin, C.K. The Effects of Television Advertising On Children.
Final report submitted to The Office Of Child Development.
Washington, D.C.: Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1975.
Eisner, Elliot. "Reading And The Creation Of Meaning." In M. Douglass,
Ed., Claremont Reading Conference, 49th Yearbook.
Gordon, Rosemary. "A Very Private World". In The Function and Nature
Of Imagery. N.Y. i Academic Press, 1972.
Iser, Wolfgang. TheAct Of Reading.
Jung, Carl. Man And His Symbols.
Kepes, Gyorgy. Module, Proportion, Rhythm, Symmetry.
Langer, Suzanne. Problems of Art.
McKim, Robert. Experiences In Visual Thinking.
Mendelowitz, Daniel. Drawing.
Nadaner, Dan. "Art And Cultural Understanding'. Art Education
July, 1981.
Nadaner, Dan. "Representing Perceptions On Film" (professor's
xerox copy).
Nadaner, Dan. "From 'They' To 'We': Understanding Others Through Art"
(professor's xerox copy).
Nisbit, Robert. Sociology As An Art Form.
Pavey , Don. Art-Based Games.
Pressley, M. "Imagery And Children's Learning: Putting The Picture
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In Developmental Perspective." Review Of EducatiOnal Research,
1977,47, 585-622.
Shepard, Roger. "The Mental Image." American Psychologist. 1978a, 33, 125-137.
Steinberg, Saul. The Inspector.
Wilson, Brent. "An Iconoclastic View of The Imagery Sources In The?
Drawings of Young People". Art Education. 1977, 30, pp. S-li.
