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Michelle Barsukov; Lauren Gatta; Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux; Jason Liang; Erica V. Lin; Kathryn Schmechel; Ximena Benavides – About Campus, 2024
The art of looking is a museum and art gallery teaching tool at the core of the Visual Thinking Strategies, a Harvard School of Education pedagogy initiated as an educational experiment for schools across the United States almost two decades ago. Today, a large number of schools implement this teaching method to increase student engagement in a…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Museums, Arts Centers, Art
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Palmer, Michael S.; Matthews, Tatiana – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
Visual literacy was a stated learning objective for the fall 2009 iteration of a first-year seminar course. To help students develop visual literacy skills, they received formal instruction throughout the semester and completed a series of carefully designed learning activities. The effects of these interventions were measured using a one-group…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Visual Literacy, Skill Analysis, Learning Activities
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Perkins, D. N. – Art Education, 1981
The perceptual encounter with works of art, after all, is the core of aesthetic experience. How well such encounters succeed for people has to be a central concern of art education. (Author)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Educational Objectives, Teaching Methods
Demery, Marie – 1984
Likert-type rating scales were designed and used to help college students perceive, understand, and value the beauty and content of a piece of art. The subjects for the project were 100 college students enrolled in two art appreciation courses at Texas College. Their classification ranged from freshman to senior, with majors mainly in business,…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Educational Research, Higher Education
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Rush, Jean C. – Studies in Art Education, 1979
This experiment compared six methods of teaching concepts of painting style. A practice-plus-verbal feedback teaching strategy (active condition) was compared to a strategy using modeled verbal response (passive condition). Each strategy was combined with three amounts of information: none, artist's name, and name plus style rule. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Demery, Marie – 1984
Through the use of a visual literacy process of instruction as an initial stage in perceiving and creating, beginning college art students can acquire knowledge and skills for completing successful drawings. This process includes the following steps: selecting a simple and familiar subject; studying the entire form of the subject; looking for big…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Creativity
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Holm, Don – School Arts, 1990
Outlines four exercises for high school students to demonstrate how people perceive color differently because of changing light conditions, varying viewpoints, and the viewer's preconceived notions of color. Maintains that an artist can use color perception to control a viewer's mood. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression
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Arenas, Amelia – Art Education, 1990
Provides six lesson outlines to help teachers motivate high school students to discuss basic questions about the meaning and function of art, aesthetic responses cultural context, and artistic skill. Illustrates artwork from the Museum of Modern Art by Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Meret Oppenheim. (KM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism
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Ende-Saxe, Shirley – School Arts, 1990
Outlines difficulties of introducing art critiques in the elementary classroom. Recounts how problems were overcome by providing focus and allowing students to decide which classmates should critique their work. Provides a structure for critiquing art that builds verbal and analytical skills as students proceed from kindergarten to grade six. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education, Art Expression
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Turnquist, Antoinette E. – School Arts, 1990
Provides a sculpture analysis lesson on aesthetic scanning designed to avoid the monotony of step-by-step discussion of sensory, formal, technical, and expressive properties of works of art. Offers four questions on sculpture analysis. Concludes that variety in aesthetic scanning is essential to keep both students and teachers motivated. (KM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education
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Zimmerman, Enid – Art Education, 1984
A review of reports, a survey, and national assessments of art education shows that visual art students are not learning art knowledge and skills because art teachers do not teach art appreciation, art history, or design and drawing skills. Priorities concerning art education content and teaching methods must be changed. (RM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art History
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Berry, Nancy W. – Art Education, 1995
Presents four paintings and summarizes a discipline based art education approach to studying them. Each painting is followed by a brief text consisting of information about the subject and artist. The text also includes writing assignments, research questions, and related activities. The paintings include portraits by Goya and Joan Miro. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1977
The curriculum guide is designed to help high school art teachers develop a course of instruction to enhance student understanding and knowledge of 20th century art and architecture. A major objective of the course is to develop student ability to recognize, compare, and analyze style, form, and expressive content as a means of achieving greater…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Architectural Education, Architecture, Art
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1977
The guide is designed to help high school art teachers develop an introductory art survey course which focuses on the basic elements and theoretical principles of art products from prehistory through the present day. A major objective of the course is to help students analyze the relationships between art and society and between the artist and…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation