Do we impose on Nature or reconcile with Nature?Tanya de Paor 2010

COURSE CONTENT

The Course: Graduate Diploma in Primary Education.

Visual Art Modules• The Revised Primary Schools

Curriculum for Visual Arts Education

• Strands and Strand Units

EXPERIENCES KNOWLEDGE

The students

Confidence

Creativity Awareness

Understanding

PRACTICE Pedagogy

EXCHANGE OF IDEASPEER CRITIQUE

Concepts in art, design and media

The project: A personal interpretation of the outline theme – Art and the Environment

What were we asking of the students?

To look at their environment?

To use Media and Processes to investigate and question their own perceptions of the theme

To bring to bear their own personal interpretations of the theme

Student pencil drawing exploring organic forms inspired by Gaudi

Exploring positive and negative spaces and organic spaces inspired by the architecture of Gaudi

Student work looking at geometric grid cut-outs inspired by Carlos Scarpa

CHALLENGESCHANGES

Embedding concepts of sustainable Education into Undergraduate and Postgraduate course outlines

TANYA DE PAOR