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    EDUC.
    488-1+
    MODELS OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN EDUCATION
    Summer Session, 1983 ?
    Instructor: Dr. Dan Nadaner
    Wednesday and Friday, 8:30 - 12:20
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    LOCATION: on campus
    This course addresses the contemporary arts of painting, video, film,
    and photography, and their place in education. This course should be of
    interest to teachers and art students who are interested in exploring new
    frontiers in art education. The course will examine the values that underlie
    the contemporary arts, and the potential relationships between these
    artistic valuesand education. The course will review leading ideas in the
    field of contemporary arts education, emphasizing theories of social and
    cultural value. The course will involve students in an educational project
    related to an art form of their choice.
    Outline Of Topics
    1) Introduction: What is art education?
    A critique of conventional practice in school art.
    A survey of potential educational values in the contemporary
    arts.
    2) New models of the arts in education.
    A.
    Art as cultural symbol: insights from anthropology.
    B.
    Art as social inquiry: insights from film criticism.
    C.
    Art as self-aware understanding: insights from philosophy.
    3) Case studies of educational value in the contemporary
    -
    visual arts.
    What is bein
    g
    done with. the contemporary arts in exemplary school programs;
    and what could be done.
    4) Educational implications.
    Discussion and written work on potential developments of the contemporary
    arts in school programs.
    Student-designed educational projects.
    Readings (on reserve in the Library)
    Laura Chapman. Instant Art, Instant Culture: The Unwritten Art PrOgram of
    The Schools.
    Edmund Feldman. Becoming HUman Through Art.
    Hans Giffhorn. 'Ideologies of Art Education' Studies In Art Education.
    Vincent Lanier. The Arts
    We
    See.
    Susan Sontag. OnPhotography.

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