scholarly journals Relevance of Informal Arts Education on Formal Visual Arts Education in Southeast Nigeria

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ifeanyi Ibenegbu
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Art Schools

Abstract The existence of informal arts education centres has raised a lot of controversy in arts education and practice in Nigeria. Often people do not regard the products of these informal arts centres as artists. They regard them as artisans even though most of them are being trained by formal artists and are being imbibed by their artistic traditions. It is, therefore, pertinent to investigate these informal arts centres and assess their existence and their influence on formal arts centres. This study was, therefore, designed to explore the assessment of informal arts education and its influence on formal art education in southeast Nigeria. The research questions were on the: educational relevance of informal arts education on formal art education, the influence of arts education on formal art education and on whether informal and formal art education can co-exist. The questionnaire was used to elicit vital information from the respondents. The findings revealed that the existence of informal arts education is relevant to formal art education, informal arts education influences formal art education and informal arts education can co-exist with formal art education. The paper recommended that the Ministries of Education should encourage and ensure that the formal art schools and informal arts centres co-exist.

scholarly journals AN EVALUATION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF VISUAL CULTURE IN VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (61) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Individual

The dynamics of life styles changing with an unprecedented momentum in the current Visual Culture Age; It affects many fields such as communication, aesthetics, visual arts, art history, art education. Visual culture in lifestyles that develop as a result of a process in which the individual is consciously or unconsciously involved; It represents an interdisciplinary field and refers to the connection of culture with visual elements. Having an aesthetic experience in the dynamics of life styles produced in today's world, developing a solution-oriented identity with a visionary perspective, presents a model of a qualified individual as a part of visual culture. Through visual arts education, which will provide a rationalist response to the requirements of the current era, activities that will increase the individual's life experiences and provide optimum benefit can be organized. Education has a great role in the integration of the individual into society and adaptation to life, and in this case, prioritizing a visual culture-based approach in art education gains value. Keywords: Visual arts education, culture, visual culture, visual culture education

scholarly journals Visual Arts Education for Young Children In Aotearoa New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Terreni
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Early Childhood Curriculum ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Visual art education plays a significant role in fostering </span><span>young children’s learning, thinking, and communicating. </span><span>In New Zealand, approaches to early childhood visual </span><span>art education have developed in response to international educational theories and trends, which, over the years, have often resulted in changes to pedagogy and practice in this domain. Currently, the national early childhood curriculum Te </span><span>Whāriki includes references to visual art education in many </span><span>of its learning strands. Whilst the curriculum has a strong sociocultural orientation to learning and teaching, approaches to early childhood visual art education are diverse. A brief historical overview of early childhood visual arts education in </span><span>New Zealand is presented and, to conclude, three examples of </span><span>current, innovative art projects are discussed. </span></p></div></div></div></div>

scholarly journals The Educating Role of Visual Arts

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Palhares - University of Minho
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Active Player ◽  
Wide Range

This article discusses contemporary visual arts education current changes. Visual Arts Education is frequently underestimated by most European Curriculum which often gave and still gives priority to other knowledge areas. Nevertheless, culture industries like museums and a wide range of culture and social organizations are doing the opposite, leading visual art education to an increasingly dissemination, even if it is always less than we all expect. This article also focus on a current shift and which seems to be a kind of paradox: visual art education services from alternative culture institutions are becoming integrated on school activities. By recognizing Visual Art Education Value, culture institutions are trying to develop different approaches in order to engage visual arts with communities. By informing and promoting creative thinking, they are trying to reach community involvement and, consequently, breaking down barriers when necessary. In a more and more globalized world, it is urgent to rethink culture, ethnical, social, economical and political diversities and here is where visual arts education can become a more active player. Art always allowed man to create different worlds in our world as Nelson Goodman affirmed. By creating new worlds, art offers possibilities on new world perspectives and therefore it also might make possible a great miracle, which is the possibility of changing into a better world! Isn´t that what next Documenta 14 is doing? Documenta 14, Kassel, considered the world's largest and most prestigious exhibition of contemporary art, will be held in Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany, under the following theme: Learning from Athens. Both - visual art education and contemporary art - seem to share this wish and determination in changing to a better world by implicating local, national and international community. And Art always seemed to be a great `educator´ throughout mankind history.

scholarly journals The cognitive aspect of interactive learning and teaching in visual arts education

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-152
Author(s):  
Zlata Tomljenović
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Cognitive Aspect ◽  
Visual Arts Education ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Cognitive Activities

The task of contemporary visual arts education is to enable quality interaction among all subjects of the teaching process, through which the students are encouraged to think, imagine, and develop higherorder cognitive activities. The objective of this empirical research study was to verify the differences in the results of students in the control and experimental groups (n=285) regarding their knowledge and understanding of visual arts content. Analysis of the results shows that the students in EG showed significantly better results compared to the students in CG, which means that the interactive model of learning and teaching positively influenced the students’ understanding of visual arts content.

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