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Course Unit TitleSPECIALIZATION IN ART EDUCATION II
Course Unit CodeSPE305E
Course Unit Details
Number of ECTS credits allocated4
Learning Outcomes of the course unitBy the end of the course, the students should be able to:
  1. Name modern and contemporary art movements (history of art), compare art movements and outline similarities and differences, identify important aesthetic elements in artworks and develop visual literacy skills.
  2. Identify, explain and demonstrate further the role of art viewing activities in planning art lessons/units, organize and propose learning activities that promote the active participation of the learners.
  3. Recognize art concepts, in theory (through artists’ artworks and children’s artworks) and experiment with them in practice.
  4. Experiment with a variety of materials and apply different techniques in order to express visually ideas by producing mainly three-dimensional representations.
  5. Discuss children’s artworks and relate them to learning preferences, ways of motivating learners, individual characteristics and general patterns of children’s representational awareness.
  6. Investigate current trends in visual arts education and especially connections between visual arts and contemporary society. Study contemporary social issues and point out how these are expressed through visual arts. Discuss contextual approaches in visual arts education.
  7. Organize and propose learning activities/ art lessons/ art units that relate to contemporary social issues, criticize and revise their proposals and discuss their effectiveness.
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
PrerequisitesNONECo-requisitesNONE
Recommended optional program componentsNONE
Course ContentsArt appreciation: modern and post-modern art movements from the history of art, comparison and discussion, artworks as a means of expression ideas, messages, values, social issues, etc.   
Contemporary social reality and visual arts: development of research skills for understanding social contemporary issues in artworks and for understand cultures of different civilizations, attitudes and values towards western art, teaching approaches for organizing art lessons/ units, planning, organizing and evaluating art lessons/ units
Studio work and engagement with art concepts, means and materials for teaching purposes:
o  Clay:
Clay as an artistic/expressive mean, three-dimensional artworks, relief artworks, tools for clay, processes for exploring clay, technical issues, everyday objects made with clays, artifacts with clay from different cultures, masks in different cultures, learning activities with children, artists’ artworks with clay, examples of children’s artworks with clay.
o  Scrap material:
The use of scrap material (man-made and natural) for artistic purposes, producing relief and three-dimensional representations with scrap materials, artists’ artworks with scrap materials, learning opportunities for children, collage, environmental issues and visual arts.
o  Printing
Engraving and printing, different techniques, variety and alternative materials for printing, positive-negative space, artists’ artworks, children’s artworks, learning opportunities.

Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks
  • Epstein A. & Trimi, Ε. (2005). Visual arts and young children. Supporting the young artists. [In Greek] Athens: Typothito, George Dardaros.
  • Gombrich. (1995). History of art. [In Greek). Educational Institution of National Bank.
References
  • Pavlou, V. (2009). Understanding Young Children’s Three-Dimensional Creative Potential in Art Making, International Journal of Art and Design Education, 28(2), 139-150.
  • Pavlou, V. and Christodoulou, N. (2008). Understanding factors that affect young people’s views toward citizenship and acceptance of diversity. Paper presented at the first International conference on Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal organized by the International Childhood and Youth Research Network (ICYRNet), Nicosia, European University Cyprus, 28-29 of May, 2008.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods The choice of the methodology adopted for the delivery of this course is based on the PCKg model (Pedagogical Content Knowing) for student-teacher preparation, which emphasizes the need to provide future teachers simultaneously knowledge in four areas: a) pedagogical knowledge, b) subject matter (content) knowledge, c) knowledge of the learners, and d) knowledge of the learning environment.
The module operates at two levels:  
-  The theoretical level that explores current trends in art education that relate  to  the theory of art (modern and post-modern art movements) and to teaching of art (contextual teaching approaches, learning preferences, etc.), and
-  The studio level that deals with the in-depth familiarization through practice with different artistic/visual concepts and different techniques and ways to produce artworks.
During both levels students are shown examples of art lessons/units with children in the Cypriot primary schools with emphasis on learners’ outcomes and learning preferences. The examples, as well as other lecture notes, are available to the e-learning platform.

Assessment methods and criteria
Presentation in class5%
Assignment 120%
Assignment 225%
Portfolio50%
Language of instructionGreek
Work placement(s)NO

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