Conceptualising Art Education as Environmental Activism in Preservice Teacher Education

This article explores how art and design education can contribute to the imperative of climate change and help societies adapt to living more sustainably. Drawing on methods from arts‐based research and qualitative case study, it reports on an investigation into what can be learned from creating environmental art installations with preservice teachers (those training to be K‐12 teachers), as part of an environmental art education programme in a leading Canadian university. Findings support that preservice teachers experienced behavioural and attitudinal shifts towards sustainability after engaging in the processes of creating environmental art; involvement in the programme also provided opportunities for building community, engaging multiple domains of learning, modelling sustainable art‐making practices and prompting environmental activism. The results of this study inform a developing pedagogy for environmental art education in higher education settings.     

艺术专业教学成果作品化的思考

在以工科为主的院校里,艺术学科该如何发展,如何在学校里独树一帜,突出自己专业的特色亮点,如何发挥艺术学科在学校里的作用?艺术教学成果化,可以充分展现艺术学科的亮点,用艺术形式把工科专业设计成打破传统观念的作品,打造不一样的校园文化,激发全校师生对艺术、对美的追求,引起学校的重视,或许是一个很好展示途径.     

Art at the Mall: A Look at the Aesthetics of Popular Mall Art Culture

Currently there is a scarcity of information in the art education literature about purchasing art. This article examines how art acquires economic and social value, as well as how consumers make decisions when purchasing a piece of art. Where does an art student, or the general public learn about buying art? How much, if any, of this process is happening in the art class? There is an assumption art educators make, that raising some invisible standards of taste leads to greater awareness of art consumption. In this article, the author visits four mall stores to study the aesthetics of art purchase to discuss a number of implications for art teaching. Elitist views of the contemporary art world regarding popular culture and the purchase of art frame the debate. As art educators we ask art students to look at the world as critical consumers; this article then, offers practical approaches for classroom discussions surrounding the purchase of art.     

The Art of Language Teaching as Interdisciplinary Paradigm

One can extrapolate from the art of language instruction to discover methods applicable across the disciplines in higher education. The paradigm presented by language instruction is applicable throughout the arts and sciences. If cultivated—and there are institutional pressures working against it—such an art can impact the languages and codes of the individual disciplines so as to advance the research mission of scholars in those fields; it can also favor the interrelationships between the disciplines. How the student learns another language (L2) is comparable to the process of learning a scientific discipline.     

我国传统书法在现代艺术设计中的运用

书法艺术是一种抽象艺术,在现代艺术设计中发挥着重要的作用,如何科学衔接传统与创新之间的关系,是书法文化发展亟待解决的重要课题。本文就书法艺术在现代艺术设计中的表现形式,传统书法与现代艺术设计的关系进行探讨。     

Open Minds and a Sense of Adventure: How Teachers of Art & Design Approach Technology

How does the use of technology in Art and Design differ from its use in other subjects? What uses do art teachers make that might seem noteworthy to their colleagues in other subject areas? And are there respects in which ICT affects art teaching uniquely? The following report is drawn from two national, qualitative studies, carried out over four years and involving over two hundred skilled computer users in the UK teaching force [1]. The studies explored good practice in use of ICT in twelve separate curriculum subjects. Research addressed the following questions: How does ICT help teachers convey the central concepts of their subjects? What can be learned with the aid of ICT that might not be learned as readily in any other way? The study found that each curriculum subject uses ICT distinctively, has singular hardware requirements and is treated differently in terms of resourcing and access.     

Art and Creativity in the Global Economies of Education

Creativity: what might this mean for art and art educators in the creative economies of globalisation? The task of this discussion is to look at the state of creativity and its role in education, in particular art education, and to seek some understanding of the register of creativity, how it is shaped, and how legitimated in the globalised world dominated by input‐output, means‐end, economically driven thinking, expectations and demands. With the help of Heidegger some crucial questions are raised, such as: How can art maintain its creative ontological and epistemological potential in the creative economies of globalisation? Is it possible for art and the creative arts to act as a process of ‘revealing’ and ‘becoming’ and ‘throwing light’ on the world while working within the market economies of innovation and entrepreneurship where creativity has become a generalised discourse? What matters in this discussion is to find a way to argue for the sustainability of art education as a creative mode of enquiry through which self and the world may be better understood, identity might be realised as difference and being‐in‐time might be possible.     

Art and Design Education in the Ecology of Care

In the light of challenges arising from contemporary issues such as inclusivity, sustainability and justice, the connections between art, design and caring appears to be pertinent. What role can artists and designers play in the ecology of care? How can we lead art and design students to connect and lend their creative skills to care needs? Drawing on the ethics of care and a relational view on health this article highlights the various teaching approaches and initiatives introduced at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, to support and guide students to realise various art and design for health and wellbeing projects that provide opportunities for students to part take in ecology of care using their creative skills. Although creative explorations at the intersection of art, design and caring is still at an early stage, outcomes from this ongoing effort have been encouraging in response to the shifting social needs to create a more inclusive and flourishing society in Singapore.     

论艺术教育的意义与价值

社会上存在很多对艺术教育的迷思,比如,艺术与教育的关系是什么?艺术是否可教?艺术完全是灵感的产物吗?艺术是否值得被教?艺术教育的作用是什么?符号理论可以表明艺术教育的可行性及价值。我们不应该将艺术仅仅视为达成某一具体目的的手段,而应该将其既看作目的,又视为手段。艺术完全是灵感的产物这一假设是没有根据的,学生的感觉回应和情感反应可以被教育,艺术教育是可能的,也是有价值的。     

关于提高高校美术教学质量的几点思考

由于传统美术教学的惯性,以及学生学习美术的动机不够纯正等问题,目前我们国家高校美术教学的质量不容乐观。如何提高高校美术教学的质量,培养专业过硬的美术从业者,是我们亟待考虑的重要问题。本文试从五个方面的分析入手,为高校美术的教学提供自己的一些粗略想法。     

Artistic Constitutions of the Civil Domain: On Art,Education and Democracy

How can we understand the relationship between art, education and democracy in the contemporary Western political condition? The recent presidential elections in the USA showed that the classical model of liberal representative democracy is shaking on its foundations. The question is how can artists and education respond to this political condition? In this article it is argued that art has a special quality to address political, and especially democratic, issues. It can strengthen education in its lessons in democracy and citizenship. Art has a special quality to walk on an alternative path of democracy, namely that of the civil domain. In the civil sphere artistic qualities and skills of designing and of imagination can play a crucial role.     

Drawing in Perspective: Scottish Art and Design Teachers Discuss Drawing

What are the main purposes of drawing in the secondary art and design curriculum? What are Scottish art teachers' views on the role and function of drawing? How is drawing taught in Scottish schools? These three broad questions formed the basis of the research reported in this article. The small‐scale study, carried out between June 2002 and June 2004 will, the authors hope, be of interest to art educators seeking to explore the teaching of drawing as a key component of art and design education. In this article, we report on the background to the study, the place of drawing in Scottish art education, the methodology used, discuss some of the respondents' comments and conclude with some reflections and thoughts for future study.     

Capturing Art to Improve Text Quality

Writing learnable instructional text is an art. How can we capture the art and transform it into a science? This paper describes a twinned passages method for capturing text art and demonstrates the method in experiments with 10 United States Army instructional texts. Twinned passages come in pairs: an original and a revised version, with equivalent content. The art has been applied to the revised version to improve its quality. The first step is to verify that the revised version is really better than the original on some meaningful measure; here retention tests were administered after a 24-hr delay. Results showed the revised versions were not forgotten over 24 hrs. For the originals, however, 24% of what had been remembered on an immediate test was forgotten over the 24-hr delay. The next step is to test various hypotheses for the causes of the improvement. Tested here were retrieval, storage, signaling, and readability hypotheses. Tests of other hypotheses are proposed. Several populations of twinned texts are identified that can be used for further research.     

高师美术教育专业学生学习心理的调查报告

随着“师范热”的兴起,各地各高校争办师范专业。作为高师美术教育专业的学生,从入学前到毕业后的美术学习心理是什么样的,本专业学科应当怎样开展教学?我们有选择地以几所有代表性的高等师范院校美术教育专业学生为主,进行了问卷调查,并结合自身的学习和工作经历,根据回收的问卷进行进一步的分析,得出一些结论和建议。     

法国高中分科定向及会考制度发展解析

200多年来,法国高中分科定向制度及毕业会考制度为了适应新的教育环境不断调整发展。今天,为了实现各科目之间的平衡、提高学业成功率、给学生更多的自由空间,法国教育部启动了新高中改革进程。高中阶段要不要分科,考试制度如何改革,针对这些问题本文集中解析了法国高中分科制度的发展,以期对我国教育改革和发展提供借鉴。     

NGO Art Education

How is art education being put to use today? To explore this provocation, I read between the lines of teaching for civic literacy through visual arts education in the United States as mandated by the Partnership for 21^st Century Skills. I consider an art education of social practice's utility within this mandate. In order to accomplish this, I describe artist Rick Lowe's Trans.lation: Vickery Meadow social sculpture project and then analyse this through a service aesthetics’ lens and neoliberal motives. In the process of overlaying social practice within the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a model for visual arts and citizenship education toward globally competent graduates, I articulate the possible limitations of such micro‐utopian ventures for art education that amount to NGO‐esque art, making the case that these efforts, while facilitating a feeling of civic engagement, only further intensify the depoliticisation of art education acting as a form of Rancière's better police in reasserting the neoliberal status quo. I sound a cautionary note about such a pragmatic turn risking the exacerbation of our collective interpassivity through aligning art education too closely to our apparent use value for late capitalism.     

(Re)visioning the Self Through Art

How can art function as a medium through which to re(view) the self and others? This article explores this central question through an interdisciplinary classroom experiment that brought theories of identity development in a multiculturalism classroom together with principles of portraiture present in an introductory drawing class. Interview analysis with a dozen participants suggests that such disciplinary interactions can create space for the exploration of stereotypes and “flash judgments” as well as lead to intense awareness of risk-taking and vulnerability so necessary to multicultural education.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. (Brecht, 1964, p. 425)     

师范美术欣赏教学之我见

本文论述了美术欣赏中怎样认识美术作品的特点，讨论了美术欣赏教学中应该注意的问题，并结合课堂教学实际研究总结了适当的解决方法及提出合理建议。     

Art as Activism #stateoftheart: The Art Teachers Association of Ireland's campaign towards reform of the Leaving Certificate Art Curriculum

The Art Teachers Association of Ireland's (ATAI), #stateoftheart campaign worked to persuade Irish policymakers to develop a new curriculum for Leaving Certificate art, reforming the long‐outdated 1972 curriculum. Students across the country designed over 3,000 postcards for the Minister for Education and an online petition was signed by 2,500 people. Students and teachers took to the corridors of schools and the streets of their towns to highlight the power of the arts and call for reform. Recently it was announced that a Senior Cycle development group under the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment would be created to address full reform of Leaving Certificate Art. This article will examine the context and rationale for the #stateoftheart campaign drawing on the images and voices of students and teachers.     

艺术的大众契约性——兼论权威与艺术的关系

艺术本质上是相对多数人的一种契约，大多数人认可它是艺术就是艺术，得到越多的人认可的艺术就是越好的艺术。然而。怎样才知道大多数人的观点是什么呢？这就需要集中，集中必然产生权威，真正的权威本来就是大众契约的结果。是代表大众的观点、意志行事的。这样一来，从表面上和形式上看，艺术就转化成权威的认定。