Overview
Offers a major rethinking of the practical ways visual arts instruction is taught in classrooms
Implicates the material, experiential, and embodied aspects of art learning as vital avenues of curricular exploration
Presents an embodied approach to visual arts curriculum
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About this book
This book critically examines four areas common to visual arts curricula: the elements of art and principles of design, the canons of human proportions, linear perspective, and RYB color theory. For each, the author presents a compelling case detailing how current art teaching fails students, explores the history of how it came to be part of the discourse, and then proffers cognitivist and holistic alternatives. This book provides a framework for teachers and teacher-candidates to shape how they advocate for intellectual rigor and embodied learning and, importantly, how they can subvert an existing curriculum to better meet the educational needs of their students.
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About the author
Timothy Babulski is an artist, art teacher, and independent scholar of arts education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: What Art Teaches Us
Book Subtitle: Reexamining the Pillars of Visual Arts Curricula
Authors: Timothy Babulski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27768-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27767-3Published: 21 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27770-3Published: 21 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27768-0Published: 09 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 200
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Curriculum Studies, Higher Education