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.

A Teacher's Introduction to Postmodernism

A Teacher's Introduction to Postmodernism
Author: Ray Linn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

In this overview of intellectual and artistic trends from the seventeenth century to the present, Linn unpacks the logic, assumptions, and philosophical implications wrapped up in what has become the founding statement of modern rationalism: Descartes's "I think, therefore I am." --from publisher description.

Art Education 11-18

Art Education 11-18
Author: Richard Hickman
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 082647201X

The second edition of the fascinating collection of essays on teaching art in secondary schools, boasting a new chapter on visual culture as well as extensive material on the changes that have occurred in this area since 2000. What kind of art would we like school and college students to produce? What kind of art do we want them to engage with? What is the process of this engagement? How should we organize the processes? By asking fundamental questions such as these, Richard Hickman and his team of contributors illustrate the new possibilities for art education in the twenty-first century and draw out the implications for classroom practice - making Art Education 11-18 the definitive guide to the subject in the postmodern era.