Approaches in Art Education (ADE 605)

AIMS AND PURPOSE of

ART EDUCATION
 Aims of Art Education

The aims and objectives of art education are:

To produce individuals who are imaginative, creative,
knowledgeable & sensitive towards aesthetics values (Ministry of
Education)

Agent of cultural heritage (Effland and Chapman)

To produce artist and art appreciator (Lansing)

That knowing about life (aesthetics & experience), artistic content &
procedures, appreciation of art history, aesthetic elements in relation
to aesthetic experience and artistic values and self-confidence in
creating/interpreting art (through the humanistic theory)
Explore cultural meaning in object design (Mc Fee)

Study of cognitive, linguistic, media and critics (Feldman)

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 Aims of Art Education

Art education within secondary schools can have a variety of aims

and objectives.
 
They need to be clearly and simply defined, so that they serve as a
statement of intent for the work of an art and provide the logic for the
detailed syllabus structure they should support.

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 Aims of Art Education

There are 4 general categories of aims:

 
Aesthetic aims
Helping children to understand and use the language of aesthetics –
and to comprehend the nature and function of art forms within the
context of their own.
 
Perceptual aims
Providing children with the particular perceptual skills needed to
comprehend and respond to art and design forms and to the visual
environment.

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 Technical aims
Teaching the necessary skills involved in the use and manipulation
of materials.
 
Personal and social aims
Improving the quality of children’s learning and personal perception
– their abilities to think, perceive, make decisions and work through
problems

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The Specific Aims are:

To enable pupils to become visually literate
 
To develop particular creative and technical skills so that ideas can
be realized and artifacts produced
 
To develop pupils’ aesthetic sensibilities and enable them to make
informed judgments about art
 
To develop pupils’ design capability
 
To develop pupils’ capacity for imaginative and original thought and
experimentation

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 Purpose of Art Education

In a democratic society, the power to determine the quality of life is

shared by all the people, not just one person or a self-appointed few.
 
The need for enlightened citizens leads to three primary
responsibilities of general public education and, by implication, of art
education.
 
General education provides for personal fulfillment, nurtures social
consciousness, and transmits the cultural heritage to each
generation.
 
In practice, school programs should be planned in relation to the
child, the subjects that comprise the cultural heritage, and society.

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 Purpose of Art Education

Three major purposes of art education stem from the personal,

historical and social responsibilities of general education.
 
Personal Fulfillment through Art
Learning to perceive expressive forms is just as important as
learning to create them.
 
The two modes of art experience are dynamically interrelated; both
are essentially creative processes.
 
The educational task is to develop children's independence in
creating art and in fully perceiving the world.

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Appreciation of the Artistic Heritage

The artistic heritage - organized knowledge about art as well as
specific works that have been created by artists of the past and
present.
 
When children's lives and artistic efforts are related to the artistic
heritage, the entire experience is personalized, and children are
helped to value the work of others.
 
Awareness of Art in Society
Children should understand that the visual forms they create help
them express their own identities as well as their membership in
groups.
 
Visual forms also mark important events in their lives.

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