Art Education in a Postmodern World

Art Education in a Postmodern World
Author: Tom Hardy
Publisher: Readings in Art and Design Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781841503028

This volume presents a series of papers concerned with the interrelations between the postmodern and the present state of art and design education. Spanning a range of thematic concerns, the book reflects upon existing practice and articulates revolutionary prospects potentially viable through a shift in educative thinking. Many of the essays pinpoint the stagnancy of teaching methods today and discuss the reductive parameters enforced by the current curriculum. The radical tone that echoes through the entire series of papers is unmistakable. Throughout the book, postmodern theory informs the polemical debate concerning new directions in educative practice. Contributors shed new light on a postmodern view of art in education with emphasis upon difference, plurality and independence of mind. Ultimately, the paper provides a detailed insight into the various concepts that shape and drive the contemporary art world and expands the debate regarding the impression of postmodern thinking in art education.

Teaching Art in a Postmodern World

Teaching Art in a Postmodern World
Author: Lee Emery
Publisher: Common Ground
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1863355014

Collection of essays by Australian and English art educators discussing the transition from modernist to postmodernist art education. Teachers reflect on changes in their own teaching, and discuss how they introduce students to contemporary art and plan a curriculum. Includes photos and references. Simultaneously published in PDF and paperback formats. Editor is Associate Professor in arts education at the University of Melbourne and is an honorary life member of the Australian Institute for Art Education.

Postmodern Art Education

Postmodern Art Education
Author: Arthur Efland
Publisher: National Art Education Association (NAEA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780937652893

"This book contains detailed examinations of multiculturalism, modernism, and cultural theory, with numerous illustrations for the postmodern art curricula, and contains a series of K-12 classroom portrayals illustrating curriculum activities. The text deals with the postmodern art curriculum for all levels-pre-school through university ... also provides characteristics of a postmodern curriculum and suggests implications for practice including sample lessons at elementary and secondary levels"--Http://www.naea-reston.org/publications-list.html.

Against the Flow

Against the Flow
Author: Peter Abbs
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2003
Genre: Arts
ISBN: 9780415297929

This book calls for education to become an end in itself, as opposed to the means to an end, and for a place to be found in contemporary education for the spiritual, the aesthetic and the ethical.

Art Education

Art Education
Author: James W. Hutchens
Publisher: National Art Education Association (NAEA)
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"This book examines the effect of postmodern discourse on the content and practice of art in the K-12 schools and university preservice education programs for art teachers ... an education that references and places emphasis upon the economic, political, social, and cultural factors inscribed upon the artworld"--Http://www.naea-reston.org/publications-list.html.

Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity

Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity
Author: Iain D. Thomson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2011-04-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139498975

Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity offers a radical new interpretation of Heidegger's later philosophy, developing his argument that art can help lead humanity beyond the nihilistic ontotheology of the modern age. Providing pathbreaking readings of Heidegger's 'The Origin of the Work of Art' and his notoriously difficult Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), this book explains precisely what postmodernity meant for Heidegger, the greatest philosophical critic of modernity, and what it could still mean for us today. Exploring these issues, Iain D. Thomson examines several postmodern works of art, including music, literature, painting and even comic books, from a post-Heideggerian perspective. Clearly written and accessible, this book will help readers gain a deeper understanding of Heidegger and his relation to postmodern theory, popular culture and art.

Ethics and the Foundations of Education

Ethics and the Foundations of Education
Author: Patrick Slattery
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Moral education
ISBN: 9780321054012

Teaching Convictions: Critical Ethical Issues and Education explores ethical issues in schools and society from the vantage-point of critical theory, democratic community, aesthetics, ecology, hermeneutics, and constructive postmodernism. This text discusses social constructions of reality and the contribution of postmodern theories to justice, compassion, and ecological sustainability in the challenging and difficult context of today's global society. The authors present life experiences and personal convictions in a narrative, autobiographical style without positioning themselves as passive observers of education or ethics nor as dispassionate investigators of ethical systems. Rather, they actively promote vision and aesthetic sensibilities as they examine their understanding of schools and society using examples from their life experiences. By referring to the arts, ecology, identity politics, theology, race and gender theories in their story of critical ethical issues and education, the authors weave a narrative of their teaching convictions in relation to moral issues.

Contemporary Issues in Art Education

Contemporary Issues in Art Education
Author: Yvonne Gaudelius
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Contemporary Issues in Art Education by Yvonne Gaudelius and Peg Speirs is a collection of essays that are framed around social issues, art, and teaching. Using an issues-based approach, the authors provide a valuable resource for teaching issues-based content, especially as these issues are explored through contemporary art and visual culture in the classroom. The authors present ideas for educators at all levels who want to incorporate an issues-based approach to teaching. This book combines theoretical perspectives with tangible and practical strategies for generating content and pedagogical approaches. The book, while primarily written for pre-service elementary teachers, will prove useful to general classroom teachers and art educators at all levels, whether they are teaching in the K-12 or the college classroom. The authors in this book are highly respected within the field of art education. They provide thoughtful approaches to a realm of complex ideas encompassing artistic, social, political, and educational issues. Readers will develop and understanding of a variety of ways to teach about such issues in the classroom, how to draw upon the contemporary artworld, and a sense of the critical frameworks within which we need to explore such issues.

Critical Studies in Art and Design Education

Critical Studies in Art and Design Education
Author: Richard Hickman
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781841502052

This book reviews past practice and theory in critical studies and discusses various trends; some papers keenly advocate a re-conceptualisation of the whole subject area, while others describe aspects of current and past practice which exemplify the "symbiotic" relationship between practical studio work and critical engagement with visual form. Rod Taylor, who has done much to promote and develop critical studies in the UK, provides us with examples of classroom practice and gives us his more recent thoughts on fundamental issues "universal themes" in art and gives examples of how both primary and secondary schools might develop their teaching of art through attending to themes such as "identity," "myth," and "environments" to help "re-animate the practical curriculum." Although some of the discussion in this book centres on or arises from the English National curriculum, the issues are more global, and relevant to anyone involved in developing or delivering art curricula in schools. An American perspective is given in papers by George Geahigan and Paul Duncum. Geahigan outlines an approach to teaching about visual form which begins with students' personal responses and is developed through structured instruction. In Duncum s vision of visual culture art education sites such as theme parks and shopping malls are the focus of students' critical attention in schools; Nick Stanley gives a lucid account of just such an enterprise, giving practical examples of ways to engage students with this particular form of visual pleasure. This publication serves to highlight some of the more pressing issues of concern to art and design teachers in two aspects. Firstly it seeks to contextualise the development of critical studies, discussing its place in the general curriculum possibly as a discrete subject and secondly it examines different approaches to its teaching."

Considering Deweyan Cultural Naturalism as a Philosophy of Art(s) Education

Considering Deweyan Cultural Naturalism as a Philosophy of Art(s) Education
Author: Lauri Väkevä
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2023-09-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031388178

This book makes a case for cultural naturalism as a basis for a philosophy of art education. It argues for a holistic approach that avoids hard boundaries between artistic disciplines in the educational context, applying cultural naturalism to challenges that are topical for the whole art(s) education field, including challenges related to ecology, social justice, and technological transformation of culture. The book is written in the form of a conditional argument that considers the consequences of cultural naturalism for today’s philosophical problem-solving in art(s) education. It contains a systematic and historical analysis of cultural naturalism that support the philosophical reflection of educators and other scholars operative in this field. The result is a late modern reading of Deweyan cultural naturalism that highlights the continuance of key philosophical ideas from the modern to present discourses. The key topics discussed are of particular interest to present-day art(s) educators: ecological sustainability, social justice, and technological transformation of culture. In addition, this book provides an example of pragmatist argumentation, suggesting an alternative to analytical and post-philosophical approaches.