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Vanderlip Taylor, Kristin; Buchman, Kerry – Art Education, 2022
Teaching visual literacy provides students with tools for questioning and understanding the world while creating meaning through visual art. Wanting to know how students make meaning together while making art, this article centers the convergence of collaboration and visual literacy in early childhood artistic practice. Approximately 200 students…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Visual Literacy, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Franco, Mary J.; Unrath, Kathleen – Art Education, 2015
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate how purposeful and substantive visual art experiences might support the literacy learning of elementary-aged boys. The overarching research question that guided this exploration was: What happens when Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) art discussions and related artmaking are infused into a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Males, Visual Arts, Literacy Education
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Greene, Maxine – Art Education, 1977
Considers the modes of education that will enable people to choose themselves as open to works of art and the responsibility of art teachers to enhance qualitative awareness, to release imagination, to free people to see, shape, and transform. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Products
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Russell, Crawford L. – Art Education, 1985
Techniques that teachers can use to help art students to make an educated guess or to estimate an approximate solution while solving a visual problem that has no single correct answer are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Products, Elementary Secondary Education, Problem Solving
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Devlin-Gascard, Lorettann – Art Education, 1996
Utilizes a 17th-century Italian sculpture and an African fetish figure to illustrate essential qualities and characteristics of figurative sculpture. Points out the extreme differences and the many similarities between the two and offers explanations. Includes a process for leading students through "reading" the sculptures. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, African Culture, Art Appreciation, Art Education
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Smith-Shank, Deborah L. – Art Education, 1996
Recreates a lively, informal discussion about art between three high school students and an art education professor. The students discuss their backgrounds, experiences creating art, and art preferences. Includes added commentary by the professor. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Values, Art Appreciation, Art Education
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Berry, Nancy W. – Art Education, 1995
Presents four paintings and summarizes a discipline based art education approach to studying them. Each painting is followed by a brief text consisting of information about the subject and artist. The text also includes writing assignments, research questions, and related activities. The paintings include portraits by Goya and Joan Miro. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism