Old Art Basics: Why the content is NOT basic.
III. Concepts of Creativity and Self Expression
Ideas, cited in curriculum guides, that art production promotes creativity, self expression, and other noble aspirations would be most valuable and basic to education if they took into account the in-depth content developed about these topics, not only by the arts but also in related fields such as psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and other scholarly disciplines. This, in our opinion, is seldom the case in the art curriculum. The mere statement of expectation or possibility of a basic outcome is not the same as a sound educational structure for promoting that learning. New Art Basics teacher/researchers strive to develop teaching strategies, that are soundly structured for accountable educational outcomes. Discursive intelligence is not as basic to the educational value of art instruction, in our opinion, as performance intelligence.
New Art Basics content is based on thinking skills and indepth knowledge that, we believe, is basic both to art production and makes art experiences basic to gaining a sound general education for life.
I. Elements and Principles
II. Media Handling Skills
III. Creativity and Self Expression
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