Class # 12 - Art Education Philosophy/ California State Content Standards

Reading Review
Review reading Third Space: When Learning Matters, by Deasy & Stevenson through the lens of developing your own Art Education Philosophy and review the reading worksheet from homework.

Preparing and Thinking About Your Philosophy Statement

Complete the following activity and come to class prepared to talk about your findings:

Part 1
Take a few minutes to reflect these questions and make a few written notes.
1. What are three important ingredients that you believe are essential to quality art education and why? Or If you were teaching art today, what would you hope your students would remember 15 years later.
2. What do you believe is the primary purpose of education?
3. What strong experiences and/or readings in your memory have influenced your thinking?

Part 2
Review your journals (including reflections from readings, notes from discussions, speakers, class activities and presentations; handouts, papers, etc.)
1. Highlight , circle and/or notate authors, presenters, theories, practices, ideas that
- strongly affirmed, sparked, excited and extended your thinking;
- you feel challenged by, wonder about or have questions
- you strongly disagree with
- shifted or changed your thinking
2. Identify three scholars/authors and their quotes or ideas that support your own values, ideas and beliefs.

Part 3
Take a few minutes to reflect on: How does art education fulfill the larger purpose of education according to your own ideas and interpretations?


Homework - Due April 20th

1. Finish activity from class above (#2 and 3 if you were in class this week, all of the above if you were absent) Be prepared to talk about what came up for your through this exercise

2. California State Content Standards for Visual and Performing Arts

What are the standards important? Why do we need them?

• Read about the Guiding Principals for the VPA Standards. If you were not in class to get the handout go to the California State Content Standards page.
  

• Once there you will have to download a PDF - click on the link Curriculum Frameworks.

• Download document and read the section that is called Guiding Principals

• Come to the next class with an understanding of why Standards are important and why we need them.

• Also please pay close attention to the five VPA strands: Artistic Perception, Creative Expression, Historical and Cultural Context, Aesthetic Valuing and Connections, Relationships, and Applications.

Now look at the content standards and across the strands to see how they play our within the Standards:

• Visual and Performing Arts, Dance
• Visual and Performing Arts, Music
• Visual and Performing Arts, Theatre
• Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts

We will be using a few of these standards in class on Monday to do a curriculum development activity.

3. Catch up on any blogging you need to complete.

As always - if you have any questions email us!

Class # 11 - Releasing the Imagination/ Eduardo Pineda/ Art Education Philosophy

Guest Speaker
Guest speaker - artist, museum educator and community activist Eduardo Pineda responds to our learning goals and talk with us about the Maxine Greene reading - Releasing the Imagination

Class goals:
• What is the relationship between art and learning?
• What is art education?
• What is art education for and why does it matter?

For more on Eduardo Pineda - go to his website Storytelling Walls
Here are some links to the sites and organizations that Eduardo talked about in class:

• Open Door Contemporary Art Projects - site run by curator Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Ph.D. developed to write about and represent the "crossroads in the African and Black diasporas."
• Renewing a First Voice - an article written by Pineda about the Ohlone murals in Berkeley for the Open Door Contemporary Art Projects.
• Toubabou Spectacle - Eduardo Pineda writes about his recent experience working on a Mural in Mali, for Open Door Contemporary Art Projects.
• Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco - I've Know Rivers was a project that Eduardo helps to create while at MoAD.
  
• Youth Development Network - works collaboratively with other organizations and agencies to provide services for youth.

Introduction to Final Project
Chose one of the following assignments to complete your final project for class - your own personal arts education philosophy:

1.) Write a 3-5-page, double-spaced paper with 12 point font, describing your own philosophy of art education. Questions to address include:

• What is the overall purpose of education as you see it?
• How can or does art education fulfill this purpose?
• How scholars and theorists influenced your thinking?
  
• How have your own experiences influenced your thinking?
  
• What strategies and/or approaches to education and art education are exciting and of most interest to you—why?

2.) Create a work of art (in any media or form) that reflects your art education philosophy to present to the class along with a one-page typed, single spaced (12 point font) statement of your art education philosophy and scholarly influences.

All ideas should be expressed in your own words and supported by the theories and ideas of scholars and practitioners. You are also encouraged to reference your own experiences, if appropriate, to support your ideas.

• The artwork and/or paper is to be turned on the last day of class April 27th – NO EXCEPTIONS!

• As well - all online blogging journals completed with all assignments by April 27th - NO EXCEPTIONS!

Homework
Read respond to the following reading on the blog:

• Deasy & Stevenson: Third Space: When Learning Matters, Chapter 2, page 121-130 in reader.
• Please respond in TWO WAYS - Fill our the worksheet we gave you in class and BRING THAT WORKSHEET COMPLETED TO NEXT CLASS, and RESPOND TO WRITING PROMPT ON BLOGGING JOURNAL SITE.