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Georgia State University

Theses/Dissertations

2010

Art education

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Changing The Traditional High School Photography Curriculum: Integrating Traditional And Digital Technologies, Julie A. Cooper Nov 2010

Changing The Traditional High School Photography Curriculum: Integrating Traditional And Digital Technologies, Julie A. Cooper

Art and Design Theses

This thesis presents a photography curriculum for a beginning high school level photography class. It is designed as a teaching guide to structure a photography class that incorporates both film photography and digital photographic technology. One of the biggest challenges for teachers of photography is how to structure a curriculum with a limited number of enlargers and space in the darkroom, while incorporating digital technology with limited computer access for students. The curriculum presented here includes three major parts: a traditional photographic film component, a digital photography component, and a concepts component where students will experiment with different photographic techniques …


Art For The Home-Schooled Student: A Document Analysis Of Art Curricula Commonly Used By Georgia Home-Schoolers, Audrey L. Albright Aug 2010

Art For The Home-Schooled Student: A Document Analysis Of Art Curricula Commonly Used By Georgia Home-Schoolers, Audrey L. Albright

Art and Design Theses

The purpose of this study was both to determine the most popular art curricula used by home-schooled students in Georgia and also to access whether or not these curricula align with State and National Standards for art education as well as current trends in the field. This research was approached from a document analysis standpoint and individual curriculum documents were examined and evaluated. Seven curricula/teaching resources were identified as the most popular in the state of Georgia and these were evaluated individually to identify themes, which were then compared to themes present in the National and State Standards for art …


An Auto-Ethnographic Study Of A Novice Itinerant Art Teacher, Kimberly A. Muhlheim Jul 2010

An Auto-Ethnographic Study Of A Novice Itinerant Art Teacher, Kimberly A. Muhlheim

Art and Design Theses

This study is an auto-ethnographic examination of reflections of a novice itinerant art teacher. The teacher taught at four schools within her first two years of teaching. Reflections of her first two years are recorded, then analyzed, and suggestions for other novice itinerant teachers are provided


My Experiences Of Integrating A Cross-Cultural Curriculum With Latino Students In An Art Education Classroom, Stephanie Davis Weiner Apr 2010

My Experiences Of Integrating A Cross-Cultural Curriculum With Latino Students In An Art Education Classroom, Stephanie Davis Weiner

Art and Design Theses

An approach to teaching art using a cross-cultural curriculum to create enthusiasm amongst Latino students and myself was the basis for my research. I collected my data using auto-ethnographical recordings and documenting my results in a pre-evaluation in December 2009, and an implementation of the study in January and February of 2010, with third grade students in a public school in Metro Atlanta. After the pre-evaluation I decided to use a more cross-cultural and tactile approach. I first implemented a lesson based on the Maori of New Zealand. I furthered my research by implementing a second lesson based on Chinese …