Information for the student – Visual Arts and Education: A Constructionist Approach

Upon successful completion of the program, the student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

• The narratives, disciplinary discourse, policies and institutional practises that make up the history of arts teaching and education.


• The areas in which arts teaching and education meet contemporary approaches to innovation and creativity.


• The contributions and alternatives deriving from the combined efforts of arts, education and community to address emerging social issues.


• The contributions that information technologies can make to arts education and teaching.


• The strategies by which educational developments can be analysed and transformed using a critical understanding of narratives, works and artistic discourse.


• The means by which to conduct research and intervention projects in arts teaching and education in different social and cultural contexts.

Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:

• Contextualise and analyse tendencies and approaches in visual arts teaching and education from social and historical perspectives.
  
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the manner in which the preoccupations of the literature are reflected in various representations of visual arts teaching and education.
  
• Distinguish between contrasting methodological approaches to the preparation of research work on cultural practices in visual arts teaching and education.
  
• Design and conduct social and institutional intervention projects in this field.
  
• Manage arts-related training and educational projects in different institutional and community contexts;
  
• Design arts-related training and educational materials in virtual and analogical frameworks;
  
• Demonstrate ability in research methods studying the discourse of proposals made in visual arts teaching and education.