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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freedman, Kerry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Study and teaching.

Art.

Art--Philosophy.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

xiv, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press ; Reston, VA : National Art Education Association, [2003]

Summary:

Global culture is rapidly shifting from text-based communication to image saturation. Visual culture is everywhere: on television, in museums, in magazines, in movie theaters, on billboards, on the internet, and in shopping malls. As a result, learning about the complexities of visual culture is becoming ever more critical to human development. This is the first book to focus on teaching visual culture. The author provides the theoretical basis on which to develop a curriculum that lays the groundwork for postmodern art education (K-12 and higher education). Drawing on social, cognitive, and curricular theory foundations, Freedman offers a conceptual framework for teaching the visual arts from a cultural standpoint.

Contents:

1. The Professional Field: Theorizing Visual Culture in Education 1

Visual Culture, Education, and Identity 2

Theorizing the Professional Field 5

Remnants of Social Theory that Shape Social Practice: Lessons from the History of Art Education 9

Breaking Boundaries and Teaching Concepts 13

2. Finding Meaning in Aesthetics: The Interdependence of Form, Feeling, and Knowing 23

The Multiple Levels of Aesthetic Experience 24

Foundations of Modern Aesthetics 25

Modernist Aesthetics in Curriculum 27

Meaning and Visual Culture: Making Connections Through Associated Knowledge 31

Aesthetics and the Construction of Meaning: Pragmatist and Neopragmatist Views 38

3. The Social Life of Art: The Importance of Connecting the Past with the Present 43

The Old and the New Art Histories 43

Contexts and Quality 49

Back and Forth: Juxtapositions of Time/Space 55

4. Art and Cognition: Knowing Visual Culture 63

Approaching Visual Culture: The Relationship of Form, Feeling, and Knowing to Learning 64

Psychobiological Conceptions of Artistic Development 70

Sociological Perspectives of Artistic Development 74

Social Ways of Knowing Art: Constructivism, Socially Shared Cognition, and Distributed Cognition 79

Situated Knowledge: Developing Conceptions and Misconceptions about Art 83

5. Interpreting Visual Culture: Constructing Concepts for Curriculum 86

Interpretation, Contexts, and Extending Meanings 87

Postmodern Concepts and Visual Culture 94

Cultural and Personal Interpretations 99

6. Curriculum as Process: Visual Culture and Democratic Education 106

Postmodern Curriculum 108

Representing Visual Culture in Curriculum Structures 111

Curriculum Connections, Cognitive Connections 118

7. Art.edu: Technological Images, Artifacts, and Communities 128

Technology as a Part of Visual Culture 128

Student Uses of Art and Technology 134

Producing on Screen 138

Watching Art: Students as Audience 139

Television: The National Curriculum 142

8. Contributing to Visual Culture: Student Artistic Production and Assessment 147

Assessment: From Liking to Understanding 148

Critique and Community 153

Group Cognition and Assessment in the Arts 158

Student Group Assessment 164.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0807743720

0807743712

OCLC:

52070481