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Allison Aziz – Art Education, 2024
A visual arts education promoted through a lens of visual culture fosters the idea that students can influence social change through their artmaking practices (K. Freedman, 2003a). Instructing through this lens is by far harder than teaching simple artmaking techniques. But Alison Aziz, similar to Kerry Freedman, became an art educator because…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Appreciation, Visual Literacy, Experience
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Meng-Jung Yang; Kevin Hsieh – Art Education, 2024
This article discusses how the authors utilized Disney animations, including "Moana" (Musker, 2016), "Zootopia" (Howard et al., 2016), "Coco" (Unkrich & Molina, 2017), "Encanto" (Howard et al., 2021), and "Raya and the Last Dragon" (Hall et al., 2021), to discuss LGBTQIA2S+ representations and…
Descriptors: Films, LGBTQ People, Preservice Teachers, Art Teachers
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Martyniuk, Stephanie Veronica – Art Education, 2018
In this article, the author discusses how video games can be studied in the Media Arts/Arts classroom in terms of their educational potential through three steps of visual literacy to effectively deconstruct a video game for critical thinking. She first looks at how games demonstrate visual representation; second, how games teach visual…
Descriptors: Video Games, Art Education, Visual Literacy, Critical Thinking
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Goodwin, Donna; Demetrius, Andrew; Uhrmacher, P. Bruce – Art Education, 2019
Years before the term "visual literacy" came to light in 1969 (Felten, 2008; Reis, 2013), British designer and art educator, Kurt Rowland, wrote, illustrated, and meticulously designed a series of art education textbooks called "Looking and Seeing." The intent was to teach visual awareness in a way that increased the capacity…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Art Education, Academic Standards, National Standards
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Ungemah, Lori D.; Stokas, Ariana Gonzalez – Art Education, 2018
Offering art education and art experiences to marginalized student populations provides a break from the academic familiar and creates space for radical possibility both in the art classroom and across academic contexts. This article shows the value of artists-in-residence within community colleges, which tend to serve low income, racial minority,…
Descriptors: Artists, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Art Education
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Derby, John – Art Education, 2014
This article adds to the small collection of art education studies on video games (Parks, 2008; Patton, 2013; Sweeny, 2010) by critically examining the association between violent video games, the U.S. military, and mental disability--from a critical disability studies perspective. Derby overviews the controversies surrounding violent video games…
Descriptors: Video Games, Violence, Art Education, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Franco, Mary; Unrath, Kathleen – Art Education, 2014
This article demonstrates how Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) art discussions and subsequent, inspired artmaking can help reach the goals of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects (CCSS-ELA). The authors describe how this was achieved in a remedial…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Thinking Skills, Visual Arts, Classroom Techniques
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Carpenter, B. Stephen, II; Cifuentes, Lauren – Art Education, 2011
As new media emerge in the common culture, the authors recommend that art educators adopt those media to facilitate deep understanding of visual culture and literacy. They report here on applications of an online image gallery that helps users develop ways to interpret what they see and compose. Over the past few years the authors have…
Descriptors: Art Education, Visual Literacy, Visual Aids, Internet
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Barnes, Natalie Selden – Art Education, 2009
Art is visual literacy, some would say more basic than writing and speaking, because it is not hampered by the barrier of language. The process of creating a visual narrative and understanding visual literacy is multi-faceted. Because similar cognitive strategies are used in the practice of both visual and written literacy, incorporation of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Evaluation, Art Education, Artists
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Feinstein, Hermine – Art Education, 1983
Metaphoric interpretation of art serves different purposes in art education and psychotherapy. These differences are discussed in the context of categories of art criticism adapted from E. B. Feldman's work. Practical guidelines are presented to help art teachers use metaphoric interpretation and maintain the boundary between education and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Therapy, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
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Hamblen, Karen – Art Education, 1985
Described is a college-level art activity that teaches aesthetic literacy to entry-level art education majors. Students are asked to bring to class and to discuss two objects--one, an art object, and the other a nonart object. The article also presents thematic categories for the generation of aesthetic concepts. (RM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Values, Art Activities, Art Education
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Richardson, Ann S. – Art Education, 1982
Discusses the relationship of visual art and language as modes of communication. Words are cumulative in effect, while visual images communicate more directly. Art education provides students with a means of interpreting and evaluating visual images. (AM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education, Verbal Communication
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Chung, Sheng Kuan – Art Education, 2007
Media programs like hip-hop music videos are powerful aesthetic agents that inspire teenagers. Thus, they have tremendous influence on young people's identity formation, lifestyle choices, and knowledge construction which are manifested in the ways teens dress, express themselves, behave, and interact with each other. However, because of the…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Stereotypes, Social Behavior, Visual Literacy
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Anderson, Tom – Art Education, 1986
Guidelines for talking about art with elementary students are presented. A critical factor in developing children's art talk experiences is an organized, well rounded, and well developed plan that recognizes the differences between talk about student art and more general talk about professional art. (RM)
Descriptors: Art, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Discussion
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Anderson, Tom – Art Education, 1981
The author urges art educators to contribute to holistic education by emphasizing the unique and alternative modes of thinking and acting which are intrinsic to visual arts. He presents two exercises to help students develop a perceptual rather than conceptual or linguistic mode. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Processes, Learning Activities, Nonverbal Learning
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