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Cultural Knowledge: The Unrecognized Responsibility Of Art Education, Helen J. Muth
Cultural Knowledge: The Unrecognized Responsibility Of Art Education, Helen J. Muth
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Art educators are a subgroup within the larger culture whose role it is to communicate information and skills in the visual arts for guiding individuals to find greater personal satisfaction in the visual arts, to gain knowledge of the visual arts as areas of specialized interest, and to become aware of the contribution the visual arts make to their cultural heritage. This paper proposes that the kinds of information that future art teachers gain while training in their specialized area fails to prepare them adequately for their role. A parallelism discovered in the work of cultural geographer, Yi-Fu Tuan (1974) …
Art As A Social Study: Theory Into Practice, Graeme Chalmers
Art As A Social Study: Theory Into Practice, Graeme Chalmers
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
The concept of dialogue is one that is rarely applied in art education. The attitude prevails that teachers of art know what is best, that students are ignorant of "real" art, that student aesthetic experiences are trivial or worthless, and so they, the teachers, settle for a curriculum and teaching approach that reaches less than 5% of the students. The remaining 95% plus are regimented in activities less meaningful than Trivia Pursuit or are ignored altogether. Dialogue is not one sided. For knowledge to take place, the learner must have access to meaning and meaning cannot be handed down like …
Playing In Public Or Creatively Expressing The Aesthetic Dimension In Social Life, Duke Madenfort
Playing In Public Or Creatively Expressing The Aesthetic Dimension In Social Life, Duke Madenfort
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
This philosophical study is in part a critical examination of Richard Sennett's sociological account of what it means to be out in public in the company of strangers and expressing oneself aesthetically in a playful, self-distanced encounter with them. His urging for a rediscovery of the classic mid-eighteenth century connection between actors on the stage and persons on the street in order to make social life aesthetic once again is seen as having significant implications for art educators concerned with putting into practice the aesthetic and social function of art and art education. The arguments developed in the paper take …