Arts in Education

Art education for Education students

the arts teach us much about every
historical period through its literature, visual
arts, music, dance, and drama

to be truly well educated one must not only

learn to appreciate the arts, but must have
rich opportunities to actively participate in
creative work
The arts are languages that most people
speak, cutting through individual
differences in culture, educational
background, and ability.

They can bring every subject to life and

turn abstractions into concrete reality.
Some studies show that strong art
education programs have demonstrated
increased student performance in other
academic areas, due to art activities'
exercising their brains' right hemispheres
and delateralizing their thinking
 Arts education

Art education is the area of learning that

is based upon the visual, tangible arts—
drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in
jewellery, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc.
and design applied to more practical fields
such as commercial graphics and home
furnishings. Latest trends also include
photography, video, film, design,
computer art, etc.
Historically art was taught in Europe via
the atelier method system where artists'
took on apprentices who learned their
trade

apprenticeship in which the student learns

from a professional artist while assisting
the artist with their work
 Approaches to art education

core discipline of Western art education is the

practice of drawing, a model which has existed
since the Renaissance

This is an empirical activity which involves

seeing, interpreting and discovering appropriate
marks to reproduce an observed phenomena.

other art activities involve imaginative

interpretation
Models:
1.A sixfold model divided into "Creative-
Productive, Cultural-Historical and Critical-
Responsive” components in Canada

2. Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE)

came to favor in the United States during the
1980s and 1990s, and it focused on specific
skills including techniques, art criticism and art
history.
3. shifted away from DBAE to visual culture
and diversity model

4. Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) is a

theory that began in the 1970s in the United
States. TAB suggests that students should be
the artists and so guided on their own
individual artistic interests through technique
lessons and critiques, while being exposed to
art history as it relates to their own work.
5. In the UK the art curriculum is prescribed by
the government's National Curriculum except in
public or fee paying schools.
Visualize your expectations and
experiences during the first week of
classes SY 2010-2011 at Cavite State
University-Imus Campus, by sketching
or painting.
SOURCE:
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/dickins
on_why_arts.htm

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