2. Art Education Teaching Philosophy Amy Johnson

3. What is the purpose of Art Education? Art Education helps students develop a sense of personal identity through the development of their senses. This development provides students with the opportunity to build connections between their knowledge base, their personal identities, their communities, and the world at large.

4. General Education encourages linear thinking It stresses the connections of top/bottom, left/right, right/wrong, cause/effect, and beginning/end All images: Amy Johnson 2002-2008

5. Art Education provides for different options

6. How does Art Education provide options?

7. Art is open to interpretation; it has no “right” or “wrong” Amy Johnson 2005 Students aged 9-12

8. Art accepts insight can be knowledge Amy Johnson 2008 Students aged 9-11

9. Art connects the verbal with the non-verbal Amy Johnson 2009 Students aged 7-16

10. Art Education combines learning with emotion Amy Johnson 2009 Students aged 8-16

11. Art Education helps develop personal identity Students aged 8-12 Amy Johnson 2005

12. Art connects the self with the world at large. Amy Johnson 2008 Students aged 9-13

13. What do I want for my students? I want my students to understand how their knowledge of the linear world fits into their understanding of their identities. I think that understanding of the world, and the world as it relates to self, is the strongest benefit of Art Education. Amy Johnson 2008

14. . . .And, of course we have fun!

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