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Stout, Candace Jesse – Art Education, 1990
Shows how learning, in an art appreciation class, can be more meaningful and lasting by emphasizing expressive outcomes that develop during class and reflect students' life experiences. Explains how teachers can take advantage of students' spontaneously generated questions. Provides four examples from an undergraduate class that can be applied at…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education
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Smith, Ralph A. – Arts Education Policy Review, 1995
Argues that, far from being a dangerous and destructive break with the past, various factions of postmodernism actually parallel modernist beliefs. Both movements share groups whose creative revisionists approach seeks a constructive accommodation. Similar parallel destructive approaches also exist. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Criticism, Art History, Critical Theory
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Erickson, Mary – Studies in Art Education, 1995
Provides evidence that sixth-grade students are capable of considerable art historical understanding. Suggests that second-grade students are able to incorporate knowledge of individual artists, and some limited historical perspective, in their consideration of artworks. Includes assessment instrument and statistical tables. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Activities, Art Criticism, Art Education
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Cunliffe, Leslie – Journal of Art and Design Education, 1990
Presents an art education model based on Elliot Eisner's three-domain model, emphasizing students' concept ownership and skill development. Criticizes late-modernism influenced practices, arguing creativity can be achieved only through tradition. Diagrams relationships between what art students learn in college and how they later teach. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art History, Art Teachers
Burchenal, Margaret; And Others – 1995
This teacher resource packet provides information, techniques, and a series of lesson units designed to introduce students to ancient Nubia through works of art found in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. The packet consists of three curriculum units based upon aspects of ancient Nubian life or culture. These units…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Art, Art Activities, Art Criticism
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Barrett, Terry – Art Education, 1994
Contends that teaching interpretation within art criticism is probably the most difficult aspect of teaching criticism. Provides suggestions and 17 principles to guide art teachers in engaging their students interpretive dialog about works of art and to provide criteria for assessing their interpretations. (CFR)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education
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Turnquist, Antoinette E. – School Arts, 1990
Provides a sculpture analysis lesson on aesthetic scanning designed to avoid the monotony of step-by-step discussion of sensory, formal, technical, and expressive properties of works of art. Offers four questions on sculpture analysis. Concludes that variety in aesthetic scanning is essential to keep both students and teachers motivated. (KM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education
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Zimmerman, Enid – Visual Arts Research, 1990
Suggests that a social action position is needed to effect desirable changes in theory and practice of art education. Compares five goals of multicultural education with three feminist approaches to art teaching. Discusses how art teaching should incorporate theories about feminist aesthetics, social change, and women's art history. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Consciousness Raising, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Osaki, Amy Boyce – Art Education, 1996
Presents an instructional resource consisting of 4 18th-century Japanese prints combined with discussion questions and related activities for grades 6-12. The prints illustrate various aspects of a society in transition. Includes background material on 18th-century Japan and the prints. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education
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Erickson, Mary – Art Education, 1995
Postulates a broad, interdisciplinary art education curriculum. The curriculum is built around nine increasingly cognitively challenging understandings expressed as instructional objectives. These objectives incorporate a series of questions examining art's functional, cultural, historic, and social contexts. Includes a discussion of the project's…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Education, Art History
Zurmuehlen, Marilyn – 1990
This document gives anecdotal stories of child art making along with philosophical interpretations for art teaching application. Art making is seen as experimental. It progresses from action to intentional mark making, naming, symbolic representation, and finally to "presence", an aesthetic creation experience that combines seeing and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History
Thompson, Christine Marme, Ed. – 1995
This anthology focuses on the earliest art expressions, experiences and encounters of young children in the educational setting. The 21 chapters include: (1) "The Visual Arts and Early Childhood Learning: Changing Contexts and Concepts" (Christine Marme Thompson); (2) "The Narrative Quality of Young Children's Art" (Marilyn Zurmuehlen; Larry…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education
1996
This resource represents a virtual library of still and moving images, documents, maps, sound clips and text which make up United States history from the Pre Columbian era to the early 1990s. The interdisciplinary range of materials included is compatible with standard textbooks in middle and high school social science, social studies, history,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Art, Art History, Elementary Secondary Education
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. – 1996
This curriculum handbook uses a discipline based art education (DBAE) approach, and includes lessons appropriate for use with students in grades 3-12. Five units address themes of universally experienced emotions: love, anguish, awe, triumph, and joy. Art exemplars are draw from among the international cultures represented in the High Museum of…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
Frederick County Public Schools, MD. – 1981
Arranged into 26 sections, this curriculum guide provides high school teachers with a competency based approach to teaching art education. Following a statement of appreciation, the philosophy and goals for art education in Maryland are presented. An excerpt from Edmund Feldman's "Varieties of Visual Experience" discusses aesthetic expression.…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education
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