Dissertation Abstract
Form And
Action In Art Education:
A Reflection Upon Theory And Practice In The Teaching Of Art
by
Atkinson, Dennis
Degree: PH.D.
Year: 1987
Pages: 00303
Institution: UNIVERSITY
OF SOUTHAMPTON (UNITED KINGDOM);
5036
Source: DAI, 49, no. 10A, (1987): 2901
Abstract: Available from UMI in association with
The British Library.
This
thesis is the consequence of a teacher exploring his practice and then
struggling to formulate a practitioner-based discourse which attempts to unfold
the complexity of teaching. Its culmination s to offer a theoretical
perspective which expounds the local place-time-dependent nature of flows of
action which in my case relate to young people and teacher engaged in art
activities.
The first part of the work is
concerned with my initial disaffection with some current theory in Art
Education, which I found wanting when I related it to what I knew from my
experience of teaching art. The 'mechanism' and universalism of such theory did
not respond to my task of working with and reflecting upon idiosyncracy in
young people's art action. My disaffection was articulated on being introduced
to a new, systemic metaphors and ideas in the writings of Waddington, Barthes,
Hawkins, Collingwood, Brookes, Wittgenstein and others. I found such metaphors
resonating with my experiences of teaching and they provided me with a form
with which I began to formulate a discourse hinting at the complexity of my
teaching. Concurrently I was able to notice the limitations of a mechanistic paradigm,
adopted by much Art Education theory, for describing and explaining action.
The second part is concerned with
using these systemic metaphors at a deeper level of enquiry, exploring some
flows of teaching in the high variety aggregate of a classroom.
In the third part of the triad of C.
S. Peirce forms the philosophical basis for my own triadic structure,
manifested in the form of the thesis. Taking on board my previous disaffection
with some general Art Education theory, I offer an action theory. (Abstract
shortened by UMI.)
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: EDUCATION, ART
Accession
No: AAGDX83483
Provider: OCLC
Database: Dissertations