Art, Teaching and Learning provides future teachers of art and other art professionals a breadth and depth of history, context, theory, and practical applications for teaching art in the 21st century. This guide offers a global to regional perspectives on key concepts, terminology and practices with attention to cultural, cognitive, and theoretical diversity and pluralism.
The world needs art and artists. It needs art teachers to educate future artists and an informed public who can appreciate art. But how does one become an art teacher? More importantly, how does one become a great art teacher? Art, Teaching and Learning answers these questions and sets future teachers on a course toward becoming great.
About the Authors
Introduction
Part I. Individual, Local, and Global Perspectives on Art, Teaching and Learning
Introduction
Chapter 1. What Is Art? What Is Art for?
Chapter 2. History of Art Education
Chapter 3. Multimodal Literacies and Aesthetic Development
Part II. Materials and Processes
Introduction
Chapter 4. Two-Dimensional Arts
Chapter 5. Three-Dimensional Arts
Chapter 6. Four-Dimensional Arts
Chapter 7. New Media, Emerging Art, Applied Arts, and Architecture
Part III. Making and Deriving Meaning in Art
Introduction (Including Close Reading of Art and Color Theory)
Chapter 8. The Elements of Art
Chapter 9. The Principles of Design
Chapter 10. Content, Context, and Concept
Part IV. 21st-Century Curriculum Developments
Introduction
Chapter 11. Standards
Chapter 12. Curriculum Design
Appendices
Appendix 1. 21st-Century Research and Trends
Appendix 2. Careers in Art
Bibliography
Teresa
Cotner
Teresa Cotner is from Los Angeles, California. She is an Associate Professor of Art Education at California State University, Chico. She is the Site Director for the Northern California Arts Project, NCAP (a regional site of The California Arts Project, TCAP). She earned a BA in Art at California State University, Sonoma, an MA in Art History and Single Subject Teaching Credential in Art at California State University, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Art Education at Stanford University. She taught high school art in Los Angeles. Dr. Cotner’s teaching and research interests include arts education, place-based education, cross-disciplinary education, multicultural education, classroom discourse, teacher education and qualitative research. She received the California Art Education Association 2014 “Award of Merit” her work advanced the cause of art education in California. She has published numerous articles, book reviews, and chapters. Her most recent article is “Intrepid Teacher Abroad: Advancing Teacher Knowledge and Professional Achievement through A Short-Term, International, Early Field Experience Teaching Place-Based Art in Japan” (2019).
Masami
Toku
Masami Toku is from the island of Amami Oshima, Japan. She is a Japanese scholar and professor of Art Education at California State University, Chico. She is the director of the USSEA (United States Society for Education through Art) Child Art Exchange program and also the general director of the international touring exhibition projects Girls’ Power! Shojo Manga! (2005 till now) and World of Shojo Manga: Mirrors of Girls’ Desires (2013–2017). She earned a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MA in Art Education/Minor Museum Study and Ed.D./Ph.D. in Art Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Toku’s research interests are cross-cultural study of children’s artistic and aesthetic development in their pictorial worlds and how visual popular culture influences children’s visual literacy. Dr. Toku received the 2008 USSEA International Ziegfeld Award, which is given to the outstanding international scholar in art education in the United States. She also received CSUChico’s Outstanding Teacher’s Award (2010–2011). She works internationally as an educator, publisher, researcher, and speaker. She has published numerous articles, book reviews, book chapters, and books in English and in Japanese. Her recent publications are, Visual Culture and Literacy: Art Appreciation from Multicultural Perspectives (2011 and 2013), International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture (2015) and an upcoming collaborative research book, Manga!: Visual Pop-culture in ARTS Education (2020).
