Curriculum, Culture, and Art Education

Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Kerry Freedman & Fernando Hernandez-Hernandez

Subjects: Curriculum
Series: SUNY series, Innovations in Curriculum
Paperback : 9780791437742, 225 pages, April 1998
Hardcover : 9780791437735, 225 pages, April 1998

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Cultural Histories of a School Subject
Kerry Freedman and Fernando Hernandez

PART I. STATE REGULATION: INTEREST AND INFLUENCE ACROSS SOCIAL BOUNDARIES

1. Artistic, Cultural, and Political Structures Determining the Educational Direction of the First Japanese Schoolbook on Art in 1871
Yasuhiko Isozaki

2. Austalian Visual Arts Education: Long-Standing Tensions between Sociocultural Realities and Governmental Policy
Doug Boughton

3. Teaching Drawing in Nineteenth-Century Canada—Why?
F. Graeme Chalmers

4. Framing the Empty Space: Two Examples of the History of Art Education in the Spanish Political Context
Fernando Hernandez

PART II. CULTURAL IDEALS: THE EFFECTS OF VISIONS AND VALUES

5. The Importance of Modern Art and Art Education in the Creation of a National Culture: New York Roots
Kerry Freedman

6. From Art Making to Visual Communication: Swedish Art Education in the Twentieth Century
Staffan Lovgren and Sten-Gosta Karlsson

7. Brazilian Connections between Fine Art and Art Teaching Since the 1920s
Lucimar Bello Pereira Frange

8. Art Education and Social, Political, and Economic Changes in Morocco
Jordi Pinto and Khalid El Bekay

PART III. PROFESSIONALIZATION: SCIENCE, POLICY, AND PRACTICE IN THE FORMATION OF THE FIELD

9. From Imperialism to Internationalism: Policy Making in British Art Education, 1853-1944, with Special Reference to the Work of Herbert Read
David Thistlewood

10. The Child Study Movement and Its Effects on Hungarian Art Education
Andrea Karpati and Emil Gaul

11. Rationales for Art Education in Chilean Schools
Luis Errazuriz

Conclusion: A Sociological Framework for International Art Education

References

About the Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

An international compilation of critical historical case studies of art education that illuminates how cultural knowledge is transmitted through curriculum.

Description

Consisting of international case studies of art education, by scholars in different countries, this book analyzes the translation of cultural knowledge through curriculum policy and practice. Each chapter focuses on historical and cultural influences on educational ideas that have crossed national borders and been transformed in the process. The range of influence is wide and includes popular culture, national politics, and professional goals. The studies illustrate the many ways in which culture and curriculum are intertwined and tell us why we theorize, write policy, and develop curricula as we do.

This book makes clear the importance of both self-consciousness and mutual understanding in a global, professional community. Through analysis of cultural and cross-cultural relationships, the authors reveal vital, but often hidden, national and international interests in education. Students experience curricula through school subjects, and this book illustrates the importance of understanding the deep, socio-cultural character of that experience.

Kerry Freedman is Associate Professor of Art Education and Curriculum Studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She is coauthor of Transforming Computer Technology and Postmodern Art Education: An Approach to Curriculum. Fernando Hernandez is Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of Barcelona. He is the coauthor of Knowing the Subject is Not Enough When Teaching; What Does Art Education Mean?; Curriculum Organization through Thematic Projects; Encounters with Art from Anthropology, and Psychology and Pedagogy.

Reviews

"Curriculum theory and practice are central to the field of art education. Historical and critical inquiry are much needed, especially now, as we enter the next century. This book deals with unique glimpses of diverse international cultures through their aesthetics, education, politics, and spiritual systems. The international focus of this book is particularly important to the field of art education, and art educators in the U.S. and abroad will find it interesting and useful." — Elizabeth Delacruz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"This timely collection will serve as a benchmark edition around which art education can be referenced in several countries/regions. While the field of art education is an emerging discipline in its own right, it has a strong history as a hybrid educational pursuit closely linked to political and socio-cultural development in many countries." — Graeme Sullivan, The University of New South Wales, Australia

"The authors have provided me with new knowledge. The book brings a new and broader perspective to existing research on the history of art education as it fosters awareness of developments across the globe." — Renee Sandell, Maryland Institute, College of Art