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Rethinking Relevance In Art Education: Paradigm Shifts And Policy Problematics In The Wake Of The Information Age, James Haywood Rolling
Rethinking Relevance In Art Education: Paradigm Shifts And Policy Problematics In The Wake Of The Information Age, James Haywood Rolling
Teaching and Leadership - All Scholarship
This article addresses the advocacy of organizations like the National Art Education Association that seek greater legislative support, funding and time allocations to be devoted to arts instruction and the development of arts practices in the arena of public education. The author argues the timeliness of a reconceived paradigm for understanding and advocating the relevancy of arts practices in the wake of the Information Age. This article seeks to rethink the semiotics defining art in an era of shifting paradigms and as contextualized in contemporary educational policy.
Who Is At The City Gates? A Surreptitious Approach To Curriculum-Making In Art Education, James Haywood Rolling
Who Is At The City Gates? A Surreptitious Approach To Curriculum-Making In Art Education, James Haywood Rolling
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The author relates the story of an exercise in curriculum-making that took place at The School at Columbia University as 4th graders responded to the erection of The Gates in New York’s Central Park in the winter of 2005, a unique installation of conceptual art by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The development of these responses over several weeks surreptitiously afforded each participant in this curriculum experience the opportunity to conceptualize certain methods and meanings most salient to them. This article opens a creative space for reconsidering some notions on what constitutes exemplary content, curricula, and criteria for assessment in art …