Uses the case of a 6th grade classrm in a small US town to systematically consider how pre-adolescent middle-school children develop a knowledge & understanding of the conventions of art & how they use this knowledge to create artful representations.
Rather than seeing art as a curricular extra, or a fun break from the curriculum, art in the Using Art Critically series is used, like language, as a tool and toy for learning, rethinking, and outgrowing oneself. The authors' intent is to position art as a seamless, joyful, and integral part of the educative process that creates space for exploring important social issues, events, and injustices. In so doing working with art from a critical perspective becomes an opportunity to understand curriculum as one way to explore opportunities for change. This book includes strategies that can be used in elementary and secondary school, and university settings.
Rather than seeing art as a curricular extra, or a fun break from the curriculum, art in the Using Art Critically series is used, like language, as a tool and toy for learning, rethinking, and outgrowing oneself. The authors' intent is to position art as a seamless, joyful, and integral part of the educative process that creates space for exploring important social issues, events, and injustices. In so doing working with art from a critical perspective becomes an opportunity to understand curriculum as one way to explore opportunities for change. This book, which is the 2nd in the Using Art Critically Series, includes strategies that can be used in elementary and secondary school and university settings.
Among the foremost textile designers of the 20th century, Anni Albers was a central figure of the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus in prewar Germany. Accompanying a centennial retrospective of her work, this volume contains full-color reproductions of Albers's most important weavings, drapery materials and wall coverings, as well as scores of her highly influential commercial textile designs. Anni Albers had an enormous effect on the design of yard materials worldwide."--Amazon.
Uses the case of a 6th grade classrm in a small US town to systematically consider how pre-adolescent middle-school children develop a knowledge & understanding of the conventions of art & how they use this knowledge to create artful representations.
These stories are narrated almost completely in the present tense. Most of these readers present a few modal verbs &– especially must and can &– and include exercises on adjectives, prepositions and interrogative words. The illustrations are a tool for building and testing vocabulary.
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