Teaching visual culture : curriculum, aesthetics, and the social life of art / Kerry Freedman

Author:: Freedman, Kerry J.
Published:: New York ; London : Teachers College Press ; Reston, VA : National Art Education Association, [2003]
Copyright Date:: ©2003
Physical Description:: xiv, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

The professional field: theorizing visual culture in education -- Finding meaning in aesthetics: the interdependence of form, feeling, and knowing -- The social life of art: the importance of connecting the past with the present -- Art and cognition: knowing visual culture -- Interpreting visual culture: constructing concepts for curriculum -- Curriculum as process: visual culture and democratic education -- Art.edu: technological images, artifacts, and communities -- Contributing to visual culture: student artistic production and assessment.

Summary:

"Drawing on social, cognitive, and curricular theory foundations, Freedman offers a conceptual framework for teaching the visual arts from a cultural standpoint. Chapters discuss: visual culture in a democracy; aesthetics in curriculum; philosophical and historical considerations; recent changes in the field of art history; connections between art, student development, and cognition; interpretation of art inside and outside of school; the role of fine arts in curriculum; technology and teaching; television as the national curriculum; student artistic production and assessment, and much more"--Http://www.naea-reston.org/publications-list.html.

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ISBN:

0807743720 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780807743720 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0807743712 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780807743713 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Note:

University Archives copy: Laid in are handwritten notes on art education books, including Teaching visual culture; syllabus for an art education class taught by Kevin Tavin, summer 2004; and Concepts of postmodern visual culture, ©2002 Kerry Freedman.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

University Archives copy: Gift of Jerome Hausman.

Associated Materials:

University Archives copy: Forms part of the Jerome Hausman papers, collection no. 09987.

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