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Dbae And Iiae: Playing Finite And Infinite Games, Stan Horner
Dbae And Iiae: Playing Finite And Infinite Games, Stan Horner
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
This essay is an excerpt from the third volume in the iiae/Analogosseries by the author, now in preparation. DBAE refers to Discipline Based Art Education while iiae refers to interactive interdisciplinary art education. In this essay I posit that there are two co-dependent ‘game’ plans informing the orientation of contemporary art education as represented by these two curricular orientations, and that one is sustained inside the other. As set forth by Carse, each one gives rise to a very different set of activation rules for players; this forms the basis for an attempt to tease out a concept of the …
Teaching Critical Practice For Future Technologies, Leslie Sharpe
Teaching Critical Practice For Future Technologies, Leslie Sharpe
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
What are the issues when faculty wishes to teach art students critical or alternative practices with newer technologies not yet widely available to the public? Can one teach alternative practices that consider social or personal contexts when the technologies are not yet publicly available? What other issues are involved when teaching art students to do fine art with such technologies, and when not training artists to do commercial work for the communications industry or mainstream media? What does it mean for the art students who wants to use these technologies for fine art to have ideas for their use, but …
Commentary: Art Education And New Technology: Are You Ready?, Susan Witwicki
Commentary: Art Education And New Technology: Are You Ready?, Susan Witwicki
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
As an Art education major, I was somewhat daunted by a recent job offer requiring me to teach in the Career and Technology Studies department. As a recovering technophobe and lover of scissors and paste, I was cautious of this ‘Brave New World’ of computers. I perceived post-millennial teens to be cyber savvy know-it-alls, largely due to the way in which they were portrayed in the media. As well, if the ads were true, teens weren’t the only ones riding the new technological wave; Cisco Systems 1999 television campaign presented a global Utopia of citizens united through surfing the net. …