Exploring the Links Between Visual Arts and Environmental Education: Experiences of Teachers Participating in an In‐Service Training Programme

An in‐service teachers' training programme was designed aiming to encourage art teachers to learn through theoretical and artistic experiential activities in a specific environmental setting (Lemithou environmental education centre, Cyprus). The programme was based on the use of the environment as an educational resource, and sought to develop participants' environmental perception through artistic activities. Teachers (N=12) from public nursery, elementary and secondary schools, with particular interests and backgrounds in visual arts were invited to participate. The present study is particularly concerned with participants' artistic work inspired by the environment in three different settings of the area: (1) natural (e.g. forest) (2) the rural‐building (e.g. the village) and (3) culture and tradition (e.g. myths and people). Qualitative methods based on observation; diary reports and photographic material were applied on a case study basis. Results revealed teachers': (1) abilities in integrating environmental aspects in their artistic work, (2) positive attitude and interest for environmental art, (3) abilities in enhancing their personal power of artistic expression based on their experiences and the world around them. The findings highlight the significance of artistic experiential activities (hands‐on activities) and critical enquiry in developing teachers' environmental perception.     

抽象出形式美本质的艺术——平面构成

平面构成是一种理性的艺术活动，它合弃了事物的现实形态，把组成图形的基本单位归纳为点、线、面等抽象的形象，并在它的骨骼和构图章法中提炼出事物的形式美本质。探讨用多变的外部视觉形式来寻求形式美所追求的永恒性，可以使艺术工作者掌握美的形式规律，提高其创造“抽象形态美”的能力和设计创造能力。     

艺术管理专业本地化定位的思考——以集美大学为例

专业建设的定位是学校发展规划和总体定位的具体体现,是指导制定专业建设规划及评价日常工作的首要依据和标准.艺术学学科发展和专业结构现代化改革需要集美大学艺术学院在闽率先开设视觉艺术、视觉文化范畴的、以"发展产业"为内涵的艺术管理专业方向,跟踪、探讨这一专业,并将其定位于"海西"经济文化社会等地缘关系中,符合培养目标本地化...     

Self‐Initiated Art Work and School Art

This article deals with the forms and contents of self‐initiated art works: the kind of learning that takes place in the production of self‐initiated art works as well as the relationships with school art. We interviewed 52 Dutch students (aged between 10 and 14) from different schools of primary and secondary education, and their art teachers. The students showed examples of their home art as well as their school art. Based on interviews and the works presented, four main categories of self‐initiated art works can be distinguished: applied art, popular culture, personal experience and traditional art. Learning outside school is partly incidental and informal (learning by doing, copying), but involves intentional learning as well. Students are aware of the differences in style, materials and themes between their spontaneous, self‐initiated art work and the work they are required to make in school. Moving the domain of self‐initiated art into schools may jeopardise it, but art teachers should neither ignore nor dismiss it. They should be aware of children's self‐initiated visual culture and relate to it in their lessons.     

英语专业学生英语语言能力发展研究设想

创造性思维是人类心理活动的高级过程,是以感知、记忆、思考、联想、理解等能力为基础,以综合性、探索性和求新性特征的高级心理活动,是一种具有开创意义的、开拓人类认识新领域、开创人类认识新成果的思维活动,属于思维中的特异性思维范畴。创造性思维能力是衡量个体智力发展水平的重要指标,亦是个体从事生产和学习活动必不可少的重要因素。在倡导创造是民族灵魂、动力之源的今天,创造性思维的地位及作用显得尤为重要。基于此,本文就如何开展对创造性思维能力发展的研究给出一个宏观的思路,并着重关注影响因子。     

公共设施设计课程的教学探讨

在以往公共设施设计的艺术教育中,存在一些教学与实践脱节的问题,问题的根本在于课程安排偏重于理论知识的介绍。对学生的实践环节安排比较薄弱,因而致使学生实践动手能力较弱。要解决这一问题要从根本上落实对学生设计能力及动手能力的培养。提高学生的创作能力、动手动脑的能力、团队合作的意识及设计语言国际化的培养。     

Graphic abilities in relation to mathematical and scientific ability in adolescents

Background:?The study investigated a small range of cognitive abilities, related to visual-spatial intelligence, in adolescents. This specific range of cognitive abilities was termed ‘graphic abilities’ and defined as a range of abilities to visualise and think in three dimensions, originating in the domain of visual-spatial intelligence, and related to visual perception and the ability to represent space. The educational importance of graphic abilities has received minimal attention from the educational community and, consequently, plays a limited role in educational practice.

Purpose:?In order to understand the particular educational importance of this range of cognitive abilities, we investigated how graphic abilities are connected with the performance and the subject preference of adolescents in several academic areas. Our hypotheses were, first, that there is a high degree of correlation between developed graphic abilities and high performance in mathematics and science, and second, that there is a high degree of correlation between developed graphic abilities and personal subject preference in these two areas.

Sample:?The sample consisted of 60 14-year-old students (30 girls and 30 boys) attending a public secondary school in a small town in northern Greece. The entire sample had followed the same mathematics courses, which did not involve any geometry or spatial representation tasks.

Design and methods:?We identified and defined a specific range of three graphic abilities, related to visual-spatial intelligence, and we investigated these abilities in the sample through several visual-spatial tasks designed for the study and measured the sample's performance in these tasks. The degree of adolescents' graphic performance (that is, the performance in these visual-spatial tasks) was correlated with their performance in mathematics and science and with their subject preference (mathematics, science and language).

Results:?Our findings confirmed both hypotheses. A high degree of correlation was found between developed graphic abilities and high performance in mathematics, and a lower but still significant degree of correlation was found between developed graphic abilities and high performance in science. The findings support the second hypothesis as well, suggesting that children with developed graphic abilities reported that their favourite subject was mathematics and second favourite subject was science.

Conclusions:?The research suggested that there is a particular relation between the level of graphic abilities performance and children's performance and in preference for mathematics and science. That is, children with developed visual perception, visual thought and representational skills are actually better with numbers and physical concepts. This particular relation might be relevant to the overall cognitive development of children, especially with respect to the increasingly developing communication technologies, and it would seem to deserve more attention and extended research from the educational community. The authorial position is that education would gain from a better understanding of: the nature of graphic abilities, how we can develop this range of abilities and how the development of visual thought and graphic expression contributes to several curriculum subjects.     

浅谈新闻摄影构图的艺术性

摄影是源于美学的艺术,是美和艺术在瞬间的凝炼。新闻摄影脱胎于艺术摄影并与之有着＂母系的血缘关系＂;获得主题鲜明、色彩饱满、视觉冲击力强的作品,使得新闻摄影聚焦区域跃出画面,涉及到设计作品的构图、安排各类别的视觉元素、光圈、景深以及曝光的精密控制等多方面因素。综合以上因素探讨新闻摄影构图的艺术性。     

Creative and aesthetic responses to picturebooks and fine art

It has long been accepted that one can respond to fine art in a variety of different ways. However, it is only in the last decade or so that picturebooks have been attracting the kind of recognition that they have long deserved as art forms to be considered and responded to both creatively and aesthetically. There is a growing body of research focusing on how we can respond creatively to the illustrations in picturebooks in addition to the picturebooks themselves as art objects. There is also a growing number of author illustrators who use famous works of art as an integral part of the storyline in their picuturebooks. This article describes how one such book, Katie's picture show, was initially used as the stimulus for some reader response work which quickly led onto more in-depth, detailed responses to fine art – Fernando Botero's art in particular. It then goes on to share the oral, written and illustrative responses of some 10 year old children, showing the creative and aesthetic links between picturebooks and fine art.     

Mapping as a tool for understanding the proceedings of an art class

This article presents a visual documentation tool for the observation of art classes. The documentation of an art class, like the documentation of any active class, is a complex task that requires focusing on clearly designated components. Quick structured sketching, as proposed here, is able to reflect varied simultaneous activities of teachers and students within specific learning environments, and enables triangulation with the customary means of documentation. The observations took place in 21 primary school and junior high art classes and the findings enabled the characterization of three different approaches implemented by the teachers.     

探析徽州砖雕的意象结构之美

徽州砖雕有着悠久的历史,是安徽重要的非物质文化遗产,以砖雕所表现的独特的审美价值和视觉美感研究其意象结构之美,分析出它的讲究诗情画意的意蕴之美、神采飞扬的气韵之美、自然朴素的儒雅之美、寓教于美的教化之美以及世俗享乐的情趣之美。同时从这五个方面发现,徽州砖雕是一种富有精神与情感传达的艺术创造。从而揭示其背后深厚的审美内涵和精神文化价值以及对中国传统建筑雕饰艺术的审美文化所产生的重要影响。     

论舞蹈的视觉冲击力

舞蹈作为一门表现性的视听艺术,深受世界不同肤色人群的喜爱。但是,怎样的舞蹈作品具有艺术价值？怎样的作品能让观众产生共鸣、深受欢迎？文章认为视觉冲击力是我们实现视觉效果、表现舞蹈意蕴强有力的手段之一。一个优秀的舞蹈作品能否对观众造成一定的视觉冲击力是一个作品成功与否的关键所在。     

Stimulating Prewriting Skills with the Help of Pictorial Images

Increasingly, children who start school have already acquired basic reading and writing skills provided by their parents or preschool teachers. However, even if we choose to accept the fact that by teaching preschool children how to read and write parents wish to help them integrate successfully into the school environment and methods of work, we still need to emphasize that certain activities are not in balance with the needs, abilities, and potentials of a preschool child. At the same time some other possibilities are not being used enough (e.g., visual art). The present research introduces this aspect and presents training prewriting skills based on visual art activities given that visual art represents one of the primary media that every child spontaneously uses in his or her preschool years.     

图形设计中解构与同构方法的应用

图形设计是艺术设计的重要组成部分，在全球政治、经济一体化的呼声日益高涨的今天，图形符号将成为全世界人们更加广泛应用的传达媒介之一。我们应在广泛发挥联想的基础上，利用解构和同构不同的思维方式，充分认识图形设计，发挥图形设计的优越性，使作品的视觉冲击力变得更强，传达出的信息和观念能更通畅，能被更广泛的观众所接受和理解。     

Somewhere in between Touch and Vision: In Search of a Meaningful Art Education for Blind Individuals

This article offers a theoretical framework of a meaningful art education for blind people. Existing literature focuses on the interaction between the artwork and the blind person. This text describes this aesthetic encounter which is complex due to tactile sensations, individual differences of the non‐sighted viewer and specific features of the art work. The article demonstrates further the importance of thorough reflection on these issues. The paradoxical character of blindness and visual art raises some difficult theoretical problems. Several authors plead for an art education for the blind that emphasises tactile experiences, instead of visual information. The article considers the consequences of such reasoning and stresses the importance of visual information in an art educational setting for blind people. Finally the article considers the roles of the art educator and the museum guide, as moderators in this dichotomy between the tactile elements of an artwork and its visual features.     

Aesthetics,Popular Visual Culture,and Designer Capitalism

While rejecting modernist philosophical aesthetics, the author argues for the use in art education of a current, ordinary‐language definition of aesthetics as visual appearance and effect, and its widespread use in many diverse cultural sites is demonstrated. Employing such a site‐specific use of aesthetics enables art education to more clearly address the realities of everyday life under designer capitalism, a socio‐economy based on the drive to create evermore desire. Aesthetic manipulation is viewed as a primary means to facilitate the smooth operation of this system. The recent craze for Bratz dolls is used to illustrate the centrality of aesthetics to designer capitalism. Finally, the author offers suggestions as to how art education can view consumer products like Bratz as pedagogic opportunities.     

面向网络零售业的电子商务人才技能分析——基于浙中城市群的调研

对浙中地区网络零售企业的调查表明,需求排前三位的岗位分别为客服、项目策划运作和美工。依照基本技能、拓展技能和发展技能三大类岗住技能,分别设置与之对应的理论与实践教学体系,以此增强电子商务专业学生的适岗能力,提升专业服务地方产业发展的能力。