ARE 6641: Contemporary Issues in Art Education
Independent Research Project
Narrative Study: An investigation of social and cultural perceptions shaped by contemporary influences, personal experiences, and development of self-awareness.
Research Paper | |
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Perceptions Artist Statement | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Personal Artwork
Narrative study on my own personal perceptions in Art Education based on research done for my annotated bibliography.
Lesson Plan Ideas which Reflect Contemporary Culture, Social, Economic, and Global issues
* These lesson ideas are examples of active engagement in contemporary issues. Through class discussions, some of my peers have inspired me to alter or expand on my original ideas to bring further meaning and awareness to the students' engagement in the class content. My goal is to eventually turn these ides into curriculum units for a more in-depth understanding of the material presented to the students.
Week 1:
Big Ideas and Concepts: Sustainability and Community Involvement
Week 2:
Big Ideas and Concepts: Exploration of personal identity - students will examine how personal attributes, ethnicity, social status, fears, etc. are intensified, resolved, or inspired through masking their appearance and will engage in discussions about ever-changing perceptions. This lesson will be a collaborative effort between the art teacher and the classroom teacher. (3rd or 4th grade)
Week 3:
Big Ideas and Concepts: Super Bowl Madness: An investigation of Visual Culture - This unit will promote awareness to societal norms and will engage students in conversations about advertising through television commercials surrounding the Super Bowl on February 3, 2013. Further it will investigate visual culture in the form of television advertisements and will introduce students to key understanding of how contemporary visual culture influences the behaviors and buying habits of people. (4th-8th grade)
Week 1:
Big Ideas and Concepts: Sustainability and Community Involvement
- The members of the school will participate in a community clean up project.
- Students will collect the trash around town, which is littering the streets and common areas of the town.
- Students will return to campus with their found items and will collectively observe and sift through their findings.
- Students will use their imaginations to come up with ways to recycle the items that they found.
- Students will re-purpose their found items through design practices and will create a sculpture for the community center.
- Students will create a sculpture garden for their re-purposed recycled goods sculptures.
- Students will participate in discussions about sustainability and how actively taking part in a community will benefit not only the identity of the community, but the identity of themselves through the effect of social impact.
Week 2:
Big Ideas and Concepts: Exploration of personal identity - students will examine how personal attributes, ethnicity, social status, fears, etc. are intensified, resolved, or inspired through masking their appearance and will engage in discussions about ever-changing perceptions. This lesson will be a collaborative effort between the art teacher and the classroom teacher. (3rd or 4th grade)
- Students will design masks that represent their personal heritage and personal interests.
- Students will wear these masks for one weeks time throughout their day at school.
- Throughout the week students will engage in discussions about identity, discrimination, fears and insecurities.
- Students will meet with the teacher for individual and focus group discussions about their experiences of masking their appearance and how it has changed who they are as a person.
- Students will be encouraged to record written and visual journal entries about their experiences and will discuss their thoughts, feelings, and experiences with their peers and their teachers.
- For one day students will swap masks with one of their classmates taking on the individual's heritage, interests, ideas, and characteristic identity.
- They will then write an essay on how their day went "walking in someone else's shoes." Students will be required to interview the individual who they are trading masks with.
- At the end of the week students will come together with their peers and discuss how this experience of masking their appearance has changed their perceptions on not only their own person, their views of the world, and their thoughts of their peers.
- As a class the students will develop a mural depicting their experiences and how the activity created a unity in the class through the celebration of identity, heritage, and classroom understanding and support.
Week 3:
Big Ideas and Concepts: Super Bowl Madness: An investigation of Visual Culture - This unit will promote awareness to societal norms and will engage students in conversations about advertising through television commercials surrounding the Super Bowl on February 3, 2013. Further it will investigate visual culture in the form of television advertisements and will introduce students to key understanding of how contemporary visual culture influences the behaviors and buying habits of people. (4th-8th grade)
- Students will investigate how companies use commercials to appeal to consumers.
- Students will explore contemporary commercials and break down key components and design elements.
- Students will write descriptive essays summarizing the storyline of the media clip.
- Students will then use their imaginations to construct an alternative ending to the commercial.
- Student will create a visual aid by illustrating a storyboard for their alternative ending.
- Students will learn to denote elements within a commercial and then connote the meaning behind the symbolic use of words, objects, and popular culture through their own interpretations.
- Students will actively engage in conversations, expressive and creative writing, and the creation of visual illustrations.
Week 4:
View Art, Spirituality, and the Way below
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Reading Reviews
Lesson 1: Engaging Post-modern and Critical Theory | |
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Lesson 3: Visual Culture | |
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Lesson 5: New Digital Media | |
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Lesson 7: Making Art Education Count | |
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Critical Intervention / Personal Voice Action Plan
Art, Spirituality, and "The Way"
Incorporating art throughout campus to inspire spiritual growth in a Catholic School environment.
Incorporating art throughout campus to inspire spiritual growth in a Catholic School environment.
Action Plan | |
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