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Deliberate Use Of Creative Problem Solving In Art Making, Rebecca Dame-Seidler
Deliberate Use Of Creative Problem Solving In Art Making, Rebecca Dame-Seidler
Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects
This project explores the productivity of the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) tools in the visual art making process. The project offered the opportunity for high school student volunteer’s to participate in an after school program called Creative Art Group Experience (CAGE). Volunteers learned and made use of CPS tools to guide their art making. The project researched the effectiveness of using CPS tools in art making documenting volunteer progress and feedback. As an art educator, I had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of using CPS tools with the art-making process. The results of CAGE will benefit how CPS tools …
Artist/Teacher: Toward A More Creative Curriculum, Matthew L. Auch Moedy
Artist/Teacher: Toward A More Creative Curriculum, Matthew L. Auch Moedy
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This thesis investigates the formation of my teaching identity. It seeks language for why I orient my teaching toward artistic thinking in my preparation and content. Features of artistic thinking discussed include students have personal interests, teachers need to expose and build on what students bring to class, artistic thinking is not linear and creativity invites the unexpected, play and creativity require both time and space and are best accomplished through situated freedom, process ought not be separated from product, making process visible and valuing process will make a positive difference in a student’s future. Vignettes from my teaching experiences …
The Terror Of Creativity: Art Education After Postmodernism, Jan Jagodzinski
The Terror Of Creativity: Art Education After Postmodernism, Jan Jagodzinski
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
This essay addresses two problematics. The first concerns the question of creativity, which has become a key signifier for art and its education in the 21st century. I try to situate this interest in creativity within the broader context of neoliberalism and capitalist designer capitalism. The second problematic addresses the term ‘after postmodernism,’ which has left us in a state of relativity by rejecting universality. My interest is to show how these two problematics are at play in the well-known documentary film, Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim. An attempt is made to expose the structure of this film …