Writing Prompts for April 13th

Read Deasy & Stevenson: Third Space: When Learning Matters, Chapter 2, page
121-130 in reader.

• Fill out the worksheet given to you in class.
• Respond on your blogs with a reflection in paragraph form that is the summary of your ideas you wrote about on this worksheet. Due by April 13th.
  

Writing Prompts for April 6th

Read Releasing the Imagination, Introduction, Narrative in the Making, by Greene in your reader.

Write about the ideas in this article in terms of how it fits into our understanding goals for the class and into your own personal art education philosophy.

Come to class on Monday April 6th prepared to talk about this with each other and our guest.

Writing Prompts for March 30th

NO BLOGGING HOMEWORK THIS WEEK!

Work on your research writing project due next week.

Good Luck!

Writing Prompts for March 23rd

Read the article by John Dewy, Art as Experience, Chapter 1, The Live Creature.

Find a quote the resonates with you and write about it below - just a reflection.

Bring the quote to class with you on Monday March 23rd to share.

If you feel inclined - post an update on how your research is going.

Writing Prompts for March 9th

Read/Review the Oaks and Lipton article: Chapter 3, Contemporary Learning Theories: Problem Solving and Understanding.

• Find a quote to share in class from this article
  

Please write each of the headings below on your post followed by your response:

1. Clarify: What are the key points advanced in this reading?
2. Analysis: How does this reading resonate with your personal experiences, beliefs and knowledge? Does it affirm or challenge? Explain.
3. Puzzles: Did this reading confuse you in any way or raise new questions for you?
4. Extensions: Note how this reading challenged, extended or deepened your thinking.
   
5. Reflection: How do the ideas in this reading relate to the Eisner Aims of Art Education? Studio Habits thinking framework? You as a learner?
   
6. Follow Up References: Note any core ideas (or quotes) that you’d like to draw on from the reading in articulating your own art education philosophy.

NOTE: Please make sure to send a thoughtful, reflective comment to a fellow classmate this week!!

Writing Prompts for March 2nd

During this response time the presenter will listen to each round. At the end of the final "I wonder..." round the presenter will have time to respond to audience remarks.

HOMEWORK Due March 2, 2009

This will be a light week so you can catch up with other reading and postings. There are 2 things we want you to do:

1. Write a short refection about the Art Fair presentations - what did you learn from this experience both as a listener/viewer and as a researcher/presenter?

1. Read the introduction to Bell Hooks book Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, page 226 in you reader. This is a short inspiring article. Use the following protocol to respond:

• Find a quote in the reading that resonates with you and write it in your blog.
• Tell why you picked this quote - relay any personal experience that resonated through this quote - why it stood out in the texts for you. Why do you feel it is an important statement in regard to the ideas and aims of art education that Eisner, Oaks and Lipton articles addressed? What is the relationship between these authors thinking around education?
• Bring your quote to class with you on Monday - we will use this to begin our conversation about the reading.
  

Writing Prompts for February 23rd

This week we want you to focus on your Art Fair installations and research. To that end please tell us how it is going:

• Make a new post on your blog - it can be brief, stating any information about your research this week - How is it going? What new questions came up for you? What knots have you hit and how have you unraveled them? What surprised you?

• Make a comment to a fellow classmate you have not talked to before.

Writing Prompts due February 16th

Use the following protocol to respond to the Oakes and Lipton reading Teaching to Change the World. Please read Chapter 1, Schooling: Wrestling with Traditions; Chapter 2, Traditional Learning Theories: Transmission, Training and IQ; Chapter 3, Contemporary Learning Theories: Problem Solving and Understanding.

Please write each of the headings below on your post followed by your response:

1. Clarify: What are the key points advanced in this reading?
2. Analysis: How does this reading resonate with your personal experiences, beliefs and knowledge? Does it affirm or challenge? Explain.
3. Puzzles: Did this reading confuse you in any way or raise new questions for you?
4. Extensions: Note how this reading challenged, extended or deepened your thinking.
   
5. Reflection: How do the ideas in this reading relate to the Eisner Aims of Art Education? Studio Habits thinking framework? You as a learner?
   
6. Follow Up References: Note any core ideas (or quotes) that you’d like to draw on from the reading in articulating your own art education philosophy.

NOTE: Please make sure to send a thoughtful, reflective comment to a fellow classmate this week!!

Writing Prompts due February 9th

Use the following protocol to respond to the Einser reading: The Arts and the Creation of the Mind, Chapter 1, The Role of the Arts in Transforming Consciousness, Chapter 2, Visions and Version of Art Education, Chapter 8, What Education can Learn from the Arts, Pg 21 - 46 in our reader.

1. Clarify: What are the key points advanced in this reading?
2. Analysis: How does this reading resonate with your personal experiences, beliefs and knowledge? Does it affirm or challenge? Explain.
3. Puzzles: Did this reading confuse you in any way or raise new questions?
4. Extensions: Note how this reading challenged, extended or deepen your thinking.
   
5. Reflection: How do the ideas in this reading relate to the Studio Habits thinking framework we have examined? You as a learner?
   
6. Follow Up References: Note any core ideas (or quotes) that you’d like to draw on from the reading in articulating your own art education philosophy.

NOTE: Please make sure to send a thoughtful, reflective comment to a fellow classmate this week!!

Writing Prompts due February 2nd

Think about the following questions to lead your written reflections on the homework assigned this week:

Readings

Hetland, L. and Winner, E. Art for Our Sake: School arts classes matter more than ever – but not for the reasons you think.

• What does this article have to say about what art making has to do with learning? What stood out for you? Reflect on this reading.

Tharp, T. The Creative Habit

• Reflect on what Twyla Tharp has to say about the process of art making. What stands out about the way she approaches her practice? Reflect on this reading.

Studio Habits Thinking

Using the Studio Habits sheet we gave you in class or go to the following weblink Eight Studio Habits of Mind to write a reflection on your personal art making process. Apply the Studio Habits of the Mind to your art process. Be specific - give examples. Be prepared to share this next week in class.

Think about the following questions as you think and write about the Studio Habits:

• What implications do these have for teaching the whole child?
• In what areas of your own practice do you use any of these?
• What else is art for beyond making art?
• What is important, and possibly essential, in the process for human development, learning, culture, etc.?

Respond to a fellow classmates reflection
At the right side menu of this page under the heading "Ideas in Art Education Journals, Spring 2009" you will see a list of links to each others blogging journals. Please go into each other blogs and see what others are saying - then pick at least one person to respond to by adding a comment at the bottom of their post. Be thoughtful about your response.

Anyone of you who have not yet posted to your blog make sure to set it up and get going with this this week so others can send you comments!

Writing Prompts due January 26th

Writing Prompts:

1.) You have been asked to read 2 article, What is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake and How Do We Educate the Whole Child? by Nel Noddings. Make a blog entry that is a reflection of what you read - What resonated with you in these articles? What do you question? Include any other thoughts you have.

2) Make another post reflecting on yourself as a learner. Include your response to the Learning Styles Survey you took. What surprised you? What did you already know about yourself as a learner? After having taken the survey, what do you think about yourself as a learner?

Welcome to the History and Ideas in Art Education, Spring 2009
The Center for Art and Public Life, California College of Art
Instructors Louise Music and Trena Noval

This blog will be the central area for the blogging journals you will keep for this class during the spring semester. Each week you will be asked to write reflections, your ideas or post research that will be assigned. You will also use this blog to upload images, video or other media that might pertain to that weeks assignment. Each of your blogs will be linked from this site. You will be able to clink into your fellow classmates blogs from the list in the right hand menu to view, comment and share your ideas and new understandings that will begin to take shape over this semester.