Introduction to Art Education introduces students to the basic ideas and issues, areas of inquiry, and experiences in art education. Students establish a foundation of art education exploring through dialogue and reflection on personal education histories both traditional and contemporary theories of learning in art education. Students gain insight on perspectives on art content and pedagogy through interviewing practicing art teachers, exploring prevailing social, cultural, ethical, and political dimensions of art education, and discussing issues and ideas in art education: e.g. gender, sexuality, and race. Students experience museum and community-based art education spaces and places of art learning, complete observations and reflections, develop a beginning personal philosophy of art education, and begin documenting their development in arts education.
Creativity and Dialogue about Education as a practice of freedom
In the following video, PSU students in the Introduction to Art Education Fall 2022 class collaboratively respond to bell hooks's text on engaged pedagogy through dialogue and artmaking. hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. Routledge, pp. 13-22