Secondary school art education : the artist’s viewpoint

• Main Author: Ewing, Gillian
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2010
• Subjects: Art - Study and teaching (Secondary) - British Columbia; Artists - British Columbia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25386

Artists are seldom consulted in the making of school art programs yet many are vitally concerned with the need for a visually literate public. This study summarizes the history of art education, examines recent issues documented by art educators, looks at opinions of artists of this century on the teaching of art, and presents interviews with six British Columbian artists to elicit their thoughts on what is necessary in a secondary school art curriculum. The interviews are essentially informal in nature and only those remarks dealing with secondary school education, or related concepts, are included. The final chapter contains an infusion of the artists' ideas under headings suggested by issues raised by art educators. An evaluation of the data collected from the interviews leads to recommendations for consideration for secondary school programs and the conviction that artists should be encouraged to participate in matters relating to art education. === Education, Faculty of === Graduate