Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | SPECIALIZATION IN ART EDUCATION I | ||||||||||
Course Unit Code | SPE304E | ||||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 4 | ||||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||||
Course Contents | - Cypriot artists: the work of a selection of well-known Cypriot artists, factors that influence the work of artists, study of contemporary artists (well known and younger ones). - Research skills: the structure of interview schedules, how to contact interviews and transcribe them, how to analyze interviews and visual data. - Children’s drawings: the role of children’s drawings in the art subject and in other subjects of the school curriculum (interdisciplinary approach), developmental stages, means for investigation, comprehension and interpretation, diagnostic tool, expression of emotions and experiences, means for therapy, etc. - New technologies: current issues related to the use of new technologies in art lessons/ units. On-line interactive activities, freeware software, such as Gimp, the use of video art (windows movie maker software), use of technology by the teacher and the children, developing teaching scenarios. - Studio work and engagement with art concepts, means and materials for teaching purposes: o Identity (multiple identities: personal, cultural, national, European): Produce video by using the window movie maker software to express issues related to their identities, produce drawings related to identity issues, realistic drawings (portrait, face proportions, shapes of faces, etc.), profile and en face, surrealistic drawings, examples of children’s artworks, developmental stages, variety of graphic materials (e.g. pencils, charcoal, colours, markers, paints, etc.), and examples of artists’ works. o Mosaics: Artists’ works, mosaics in the Greek culture, techniques, teaching scenarios/ learning activities with children, examples children’s mosaic artworks, on-line mosaics, production of mosaics with different mosaic. o Still life: Enhancement of observational skills, representations of still life (realistic and not), artists’ works, examples of children’s works, teaching scenarios, on-line activities (“live” still lives), pencils, pastels, paints, canvases. | ||||||||||
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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 (history of Cypriot art, culture in Cyprus) and to teaching of art (teaching approaches, learning preferences, developmental stages and individual differences, motivating learners, embedding new technologies in art lessons/units, 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. | ||||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |