Post #1: reflect on the work you and your group did in class today. Write about the things that you took away from the discussion that you understand as important to contemporary approaches to art education. Write enough that we get a good idea of what contemporary approaches seem to be concerned with, what you see as valuable in these concerns, and any questions or insights you have right now that come up for you as you think about today's work.
In class this past Thursday our group shared the ideas and approaches to teaching that we had gathered from our articles read on blackboard. My author was Pamela Geiger Stephens and the main point of her article was that community based learning and public art expands student’s imaginations and helps them turn curiosity into knowledge. Our group organized ideas of who impacts students learning.. Is it the students themselves? The teachers? The community? ext... We attempted to place our ideas into five different categories. One problem we faced was that our poster got a little complicated and unorganized, with arrows going all over the place the overall look was chaotic! We decided that next time in class we would organize our poster better therefor making it easier to read. I think our main problem was that so many ideas fit into multiple categories and maybe we needed a different approach. We thought of making a circle of categories and all ideas would be placed inside the circle because they are all intertwined and all impact the other in some way. Our group worked well together in solving the problem we had but one thing I wish we had done a little different was read out what we were writing. I think we put too much concern into the organization and getting the ideas on paper that we didn’t talk out our ideas enough. I only know about one other group members article, but that was partially because of the time restrictions. I believe next time in class we will have more time to share our ideas and go into discussion about them.
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