Negotiating Cross-cultural Education in the Visual Arts

This paper looks at the problems posed by a Eurocentric Visual Arts education in Australia. It illustrates the cultural circumstances that created an environment sympathetic to a move away from an Euro-American cultural emphasis towards a more Asian centred programme. It describes how the Western Australian School of Visual Arts chose a conceptual model appropriate to the task of re-aligning the objectives and content of the teaching of visual art theory at the School. The debates considered essential to the development of a course of study appropriate to the evolving of a post-colonial, multi-cultural Australia are examined. The benefits and problems of the Modernist agenda in Australia are discussed alongside proposals that promote understanding of cultural difference. The intention is to produce graduates who are aware of the relevance of cross cultural negotiation in contemporary Australian art and design practice, and who have a familiarity with current theoretical models of cross cultural negotiation and exchange.     

Insights into the Integration of Traditional Filipino Arts in Art and Design Education: Voices from the Academe

This article presents the first segment of a qualitative study that explores the feasibility of integrating traditional arts in Philippine art and design education. The views of educators on traditional arts were sought to provide an impetus for the study and a springboard for discussion regarding the relevance of traditional Filipino arts in a predominantly Westernised educational system. The educators’ views and opinions on the central question, ‘Why and how should the study of traditional Filipino arts be integrated in the art and design programme?’ will be used to guide a trial integration of the learning of traditional arts in tertiary art and design classes. They will form part of the multiple perspectives that will be gathered from various sectors throughout the course of research. This phenomenological study, on the whole, seeks to uncover the potentials of traditional arts as a rich resource for learning, particularly for students of art and design.     

Art Education and the Visual Arts in Botswana

The history of art and design education in Botswana has evolved in a unique way and reflects its British colonial history and post‐independence development. It has involved constant exchange and dialogue with other countries through the employment of teachers, teacher trainers and university lecturers from a variety of European, Asian and other African countries. This dialogue has continued as locally trained art teachers pursue their degrees overseas and return with new ideas and influences. At the same time, the development of local crafts for a global market and the inter‐cultural exchange in the visual arts outside the formal education system are thriving with the help of various organisations and the museum and gallery sector. This article will look more closely at the country context, the history and development of art education and the interrelationships that have evolved over the last two decades. It will show how students engage with the challenge of integrating their African heritage and changing traditions with their development as teachers and artists. It will also consider how closer links between the formal and informal art sectors might be mutually beneficial and demonstrate the potential for art and design to play a role in the social, economic and cultural development of the country.     

The Multiple Faces of Visual Arts Education

This article identifies recent, mainly Nordic, research approaches to visual arts education. A concept map was developed as a heuristic tool in order to highlight salient traits and blind spots. Contemporary research typically has its origin either in education or in the art world, with an emphasis either on art as language or on art as text. These two dimensions were used to organise the studies and to select representative exemplars in different domains. The framework helped to chart the knowledge base of, and research approaches to, visual arts education. However, the result of blending subject matter and pedagogy tended to be a ‘mixture’ of viewpoints rather than emerging domains of subject‐specific pedagogical knowledge (Lee Shulman: an ‘amalgam’).     

浅谈美术教学中的美育

美术课是中学教育中的一门重要课程,它不仅是传授学生一些绘画知识与培养绘画能力,而且是对学生进行美育的重要手段,是对学生进行陶冶情操、启迪智慧以促进全面发展的重要手段之一.     

浅谈美术教学中的美育

美术课是中学教育中的一门重要课程，它不仅是传授学生一些绘画知识与培养绘画能力，而又是对学生进行美育的重要手段。是对学生进行陶冶情操、启迪智慧以促进全面发展的重要手段之一。     

Microcomputers in Special Education Classrooms:

No abstract available for this article.     

Voices in Education: Politics and Teacher Education

Abstract

This research examined the legal climate regarding admissions and retention in teacher preparation programs as well as the current practices of selected programs. The study utilized legal/archival research and an on‐line survey of 27 universities. Findings indicated that the legal parameters regarding admission and retention fall under the expectations established for other types of professional training. University officials have great latitude to make professional judgments. The survey found that most institutions have formal admission and retention policies, though the admission policies are more fully developed. Many universities reported having formal policies to consider student dispositions for teaching, though no single policy is used by more than one third of the universities surveyed (most employ informal means). Conclusions include that teacher preparation programs have more legal latitude than is being employed for admission and retention decisions, and it is recommended that the field establish professional norms for retention policies and assessing student dispositions for teaching.     

Learning and Teaching in Microcomputer Classrooms:

No abstract available for this article.     

讲授法在大学课堂中的困境及其突破——兼论高校创新人才培养

在创新人才的培养当中,存在着一股轻视讲授法的思潮。由于很多大学老师对讲授法的掌握并不熟练,学术界对讲授法的研究也不够深入,因而讲授法长期蒙受冤屈,被误以为天然导致灌输、死记硬背等不良局面,不利于创新人才的培养。事实上,讲授法无论是在知识积累还是创新思维的培养当中,都发挥着不容代替的作用。我们不应将讲授法彻底打倒,而应找出阻碍讲授法发挥其应有功能的主客观因素,并着力检讨和改进,使其在创新人才的培养中发挥出应有的价值。     

大学文科教学实施创新教育的新思考

人文社会科学创新是科技创新的前提和保障，因此要高度重视并挖掘和发挥好大学文科创新教育因素。在实施创新教育教学过程着重抓住四个关键问题：突出学生的主体地位，创新教学内容和课程体系，构建创新教育教学模式，建立创新教育考核评价激励机制。     

Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms

In this paper we present the way in which language issues have become a relevant factor in research which aims to study the socio-cultural aspects of mathematics education in classrooms with a high percentage of immigrant students. Our research on language issues focuses on two aspects, namely the language as a social tool within the mathematics classroom and the language as a vehicle in the construction of mathematical knowledge. We introduce our problem within this area and provide a rationale for our research methodology, not avoiding its drawbacks,but rather giving examples of the kinds of difficulties we encountered. The paper highlights the integrated nature of the social, cultural and linguistic aspects of mathematics teaching and learning, and illustrates the fact that, even if the mathematical language can be considered universal, the language of ‘doing mathematics within the classroom’ is far from being universal. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

作为“位育”的通识教育:潘光旦的本土化视角

本文从通识教育本土化的问题出发,梳理了潘光旦在20世纪上半叶关于中国大学教育的反思以及作为这种反思的结果,即在中国展开通识教育的思想。潘光旦关于通识教育的目的、功能和方法等方面的主张,服从于其“中和位育”的核心社会学理论,对今天在中国大陆展开的通识教育实践活动依然具有有益的理论意义和参考价值。     

论成人有效教学与教学艺术之耦合

自教学诞生以来,教育者就在追求有效教学,进行有效教学的探索。成人学习注重实用性和实效性,因此成人教学更应实施有效教学。本文在分析成人有效教学与成人教学艺术的基础上,着重探讨在成人教学中积极建构成人教学艺术,促进成人有效教学。     

中等美术教育中的形式美教学

美术是关于视觉美的学问和技术。视觉的真实不等于视觉美，美是抽象的，属于感觉的范畴。形式美的教学是中等美术教育的主要部分。学习、发现和运用形式美规律，为美术创作服务是形式美教学之目的。