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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
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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.