EDU403 Final Term Notes

Topic 043 Evaluation of Performing Arts

George Gadamer in Truth and Method in 1989

Q1. How Aesthetic Influence in a performance is determined?

1. Presence: He knows all about how it really was
2. Sharing: His mind and its own functioning becomes a

shared activity with performance.

3. Self-forgetfulness: The condition where a spectator is

carried out by the performance. It is important if we

consider puppetry as a tool to educate children.

4. Contemporaneity: Which means that a single thing that

presents itself to us achieves in its presentation full

presentness, however remote its origin may be

5. Absolute Presence: Which is a result of Self-

forgetfullness and Contemporaneity?

Topic 044 Evaluation Theory 1

Paul Thom (p.205) which he termed as playful attention is performing is a process; an audience's attention can play between the performer's present actions and recollected past actions or anticipated future ones.

James Young’s book Art and Knowledge (2001) casts light on performing art as affective illustrative representation through strategies that provide right perspectives to a suitably qualified audience.

1. Cognitive Value: This principle states that works of art with a high degree of aesthetic value can contribute importantly to the knowledge of an audience.
2. Interpretability principle: Artworks have cognitive (and aesthetic) value qua representations but can only have this value if audiences can interpret them. Consequently, the interpretability principle follows from the fact that artworks have value qua representations
3. Subject Matter Principle: suggests that art does not need to be necessarily morally ‘right’ but it should turn attention towards important subject matter. This means that the mere knowledge of important subject matter can put things on track. Art should provide the right perspective on important subject matter. He demands rationality over and above morality.
4. Originality Principle: holds that art must simplify puzzling issues through original perspective on things, this originality is essential for establishing an aesthetic value of an art work.

Topic 047 Teaching Art

21st century (Age of Science and Technology, Media, Globalization, Information Technology, Brain and Mind Sciences.

Disciplines dealing with the understanding of whole world:

1. Macro: History, Philosophy, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Mysticism,
2. Micro: Quantum Physics, Nano-technology, Genetics

Disciplines dealing with the understanding of individual and Society: Anthropology, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neurobiology, Evolutionary Sciences, Neuroaesthetics, Computational Sciences, Social and Cultural Studies

Few strategies to consider in teaching art to children:

1. Modeling Artists’ Thinking & Process: Trenchers should

encourage each student to think like an artist by modeling their

own artistic process as well as exposing them to works of art

and a variety of ideas and approaches.

2. Reflective Practice: is an integral component of every teacher

residency and can take the form of group discussions of

student artwork, individual sketchbook reflections, and checklists of goals generated by students.

3. Open-ended and extended investigations: Teachers should

begin with developing an Essential Question, a question that is

designed to address a big idea within the chosen curriculum

area.

4. Material and idea explorations: In order to build technique and

foster student innovation, teachers should include sessions that

are solely dedicated to investigating the properties and

possibilities of materials and ideas.

5. Collaborative and interdisciplinary projects: The structure

teaching should be designed to foster collaboration with

educators from other disciplines, and to create group projects.

These collaborative approaches create natural opportunities for

interdisciplinary learning

6. Balancing process and product: is important for teachers,

parents, and students value the importance of exploring,

thinking, and participating in the artistic process.

Topic 048

New Teaching Method

The main objective is to develop a student in terms of artistic genius

and skill. Following aspects are important:

7. Understand the Artist
8. Understand the Product
9. Understand the Viewer
10. Relation between Artist and Product
11. Relation between the product and viewer
12. Relation between the artist and viewer

In new teaching method some given goals should be prefer: