It’s Just a Draft: On the messy, the unfinished and the speculative in writing

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Doubtfire
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Developmental Cycle ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
The Relationship

Language, and by extension writing, are used in conjunction with art to explain, decipher and decode. With the move of art education to be increasingly in line with academic practice, the written work undertaken by art students is measured and governed by expectations of being refined, finished and persuasive. Practice is often an altogether messier endeavour than the writing that accompanies, explains and justifies it would have you believe. Considering the relationship between writing and practice, It’s Just a Draft proposes the relevance of writing that falls short of academic expectations: the messy, the unfinished and the speculative. The article focuses on various aspects of written practice, namely: process, and the notion of embracing all stages of writing in a finished text; drafts, the idea of writing and rewriting/thinking and rethinking text as a continuous and developmental cycle; and style, more specifically what constitutes an academic voice. The article reflects somewhat on its own implication in relation to these ideas, being paradoxically more formulaic than the sort of writing that it discusses.

Self-sexualization in preadolescent girls: Associations with self-objectification, weight concerns, and parent’s academic expectations

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine R. Starr ◽  
Eileen L. Zurbriggen
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Weight Concerns ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Academic Goals ◽  
Parental Reports ◽  
Self Objectification ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy

We investigated the relationship of self-sexualization to self-objectification, weight concerns, self-efficacy, academic outcomes, and career aspirations among preadolescent girls. Participants were 89 six- to nine-year-old girls; parental reports were also obtained. Two thirds of girls showed signs of self-sexualization by choosing a sexualized doll over a nonsexualized doll as who they preferred to look like and/or who they currently look like. Girls who self-sexualized reported higher self-objectification and weight concerns than girls who did not self-sexualize. Self-sexualization was unrelated to social, emotional, and academic self-efficacy and to girls’ career confidence and interest. However, parents of girls who self-sexualized reported their daughters had lower academic performance and enjoyed school less compared to girls who did not self-sexualize. Additionally, parents of girls who self-sexualized had lower academic expectations for their daughters. It is possible that in preadolescence self-sexualization affects girls’ body cognitions and parental expectations without (yet) affecting self-efficacy or academic goals.

Towards a vital pedagogy: Learning from anti-ableist practice in art education

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Claire Penketh
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Art Educators ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Models Of Disability ◽  
Crip Theory ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Art education has the potential to promote inclusive education for all children and young people. However, the pervasive discourse of special education, with an emphasis on individual deficit, support and remediation, can dominate our thinking about the relationship between disability and art education. This article reports on an attempt to resist the limitations of such discourses by introducing anti-ableist, crip theory to art educators (n=48). Visual and textual storyboards enabled practitioners to present, reflect and revise projects from a committed anti-ableist position. Modified projects reflected an awareness of the benefits of multi-sensory approaches, the advantages of interdependency and a greater resonance with contemporary arts practice. Acknowledging the challenges of taking theory to practice, the article suggests that anti-ableist theory can promote a vital pedagogy in art education. It concludes that crip theory can provoke practice-based resistance to deficit-based models of disability.

Applied-Information Technology in the Relationship Research between Industry Structure and Discipline Structure of Higher Education in Fujian Province of China

2014 ◽  
Vol 1014 ◽  
pp. 547-551
Author(s):  
Li Jian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Industry Structure ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Fujian Province ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Statistical Yearbook ◽  
The Relationship

This paper is concerned with the relationship between the industry structure and discipline structure of higher education in Fujian province of China. It draws on the data about the industry structure from the Fujian Statistical Yearbook (2005-2012) and the data about the discipline structure from Fujian Education Statistical Yearbook (1949-2012). After correlation analysis and comparison analysis between the industry structure in the GDP value and the labor in Fujian Province from 2005-2012 and the discipline structure in Fujian’s universities and colleges from2005-2012, this article concludes that the industry structure decides the discipline structure of higher education in a district and the discipline structure also affects the industry structure, and for the universities and colleges in Fujian Province, they should pay more attention to the development of engineering programs, increase the enrollment of them and relatively decrease the enrollment of the art students.

scholarly journals Rethinking Materiality In Pre-Tertiary Studio Art Education In Ghana

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Kwame Opoku-Bonsu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Studio Art ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Education In Ghana ◽  
Do So

<p><em>This paper explores the conventional artist and environment connections, and argues that, environment that produce the Senior High School student do so with peculiar material affinities and competences ripe for 21<sup>st</sup> century art. The culture of obliging student to a few institutionalised media like clay, dyes and paints in the studio based art disciplines inhibit the numerous possibilities available, and confines art education to limited aptitudes and few institutionally expected expressions in pre-tertiary art education in Ghana. Using content analysis, the paper examines the Art Curricula and WAEC examination questions for Art Students at the SHS level. It recommends that, curricula and examination item reviews, as well as the incorporation of visual and material culture into artistic processes through democratization and participations of candidates’ cultural backgrounds, will usher in an art education premised on meaning making and conception, and institutionally groomed cultural ambassadors with significant material and visual diversities and competences.</em></p>

scholarly journals Theoretical accents of a new scientific paradigm in art education

2020 ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
Feng Yan
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Scientific Paradigm ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Important Measure ◽  
Moral Aspect ◽  
The Relationship

The author explains the value of the approach to the development of a new scientific paradigm in art education. In art education, the moral aspect of teacher training, which can convey to students the need to self-esteem their experiences and the ways in which they are expressed in artistic language, is the most important measure. According to the author, the appeal to philosophical foundations, cultural values, historical facts of experimental achievements, creating new stages for the development of civilization as a whole, forms a special national and cultural appeal for the unity of a multinational country. Consequently, the formation of a single digital educational platform for countries such as China and Russia requires clarifying the relationship between the nurturing and forming professional components of the learning process.

scholarly journals The Role of Exhibitions in ART Education in some Selected Senior High Schools in the Bono Ahafo Region of Ghana

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-197
Author(s):  
RHODA INGE BOAMAH ◽  
ERIC APPAU ASANTE
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Art Students ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
State Of Art

This study examines the impact of art exhibitions on the teaching, learning, and practice of Art Education in selected Senior High Schools in the Bono Region of Ghana. The study posed two major questions: What is the state of art exhibition practice in the selected schools? What are the emerging roles of art exhibitions in Art Education? The study employed both qualitative and quantitative research designs. The study used a sample size of eighty-one (81) participants from a population of 161 Visual Art students and teachers from three selected schools using the simple random and purposive sampling techniques respectively. On research question one, the study established that the present state of art exhibition practice in the Senior High Schools was constrained due to the uncooperative attitude of school leadership resulting in irregular organization of such events. In relation to research question two, it was found that exhibitions play diverse roles in art education. Among others, art exhibitions serve as lenses through which learning objectives in art education are measured; and that the use of artefacts for exhibitions results in the appreciation of cultural diversity among students; they also harness and develop exhibitors’ research skills and critical thinking. Recommendations for exhibitors, schools, and the Government made include encouraging exhibitors to explore the use of other non-conventional materials in producing art works; setting aside non-academic days such as Saturdays and Sundays for exhibitions; and encouraging art students to inculcate artists’ statement during exhibition of their artworks to enhance their writing skills and self-reflection respectively.

scholarly journals Acculturation Strategy, Integration Paradoxes and Educational Adaptation—A Case Study of Chinese Visiting Scholar’s Family in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Weidong Li ◽  
Sisi Chen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Mediated Effects ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Acculturation Strategy ◽  
The Relationship

In this case study, we developed a theoretical framework for examining the relationship between acculturation strategy and educational adaptation. By interviews and observations of one Chinese visiting scholar’s family in the United States, we found that the family utilized integration as the acculturation strategy to adapt to the US educational environment. However, we also found that the family’s perceived integration attitudes and behaviors were opposed to its actual integration attitudes and behaviors, which we called integration paradoxes. These integration paradoxes included the following four areas: a) cultural difference; b) academic and non-academic problem solving; c) academic expectations; and d) bicultural competence. The findings indicated potential moderated and/or mediated effects of the four integration paradoxes on the relationship between integration and educational adaptation.

scholarly journals The Immutability of Online Course in Art Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Jie Fan
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Teaching Mode ◽  
Absolute Truth ◽  
Network Teaching ◽  
Art Teaching ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Relationship

The signifier and signified of symbol representation in art works can generate and reflect reality. However, it can never produce the absolute truth. This paper mainly discusses the relationship between immutability with arbitrariness, sociality, and continuity in art education, both online and in outline. Overall, it is recommended that practical art teaching should be guided by artistic achievements. In addition, we clarify immutability of network teaching mode in art education, and recommend exploration of conscious, independent and self-discipline modes.

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