Understanding Arts and Arts Education (Theory) Block : Art Education

4.1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading the lesson you will be able to:
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Plan an art activity in your class.
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Describe the purpose & importance of organisation.
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Various ways of organisation and facilitation
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List the required material for art experience
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Organise material & space for art experience in appropriate manner.
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Facilitate children for art experience.
4.2 PLANNING OF ART EXPERIENCE FOR
ELEMENTARY CLASS
For planning any art experience, teacher should be aware of the following;
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a child’s mental capacity which has visual imagery , unrealistic imagination,
joy and excitement
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understanding and trying to facilitate individual learning needs
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practical experience of the process of any art form
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availability of basic elements like comfortable space, clean and pollution
free environment musical instruments for music and dance, pen ,paper,
colours for visual arts.

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Planning and Organization of Art Education
Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed)
4.2.1 WHAT IS ART EXPERIENCE?
“The arts provide multiple avenues for students to express themselves. As an
instrument for receiving and transmitting messages of joy, language has its
limitations, and so it has to be supplemented by the arts of figuration, music
and dance” says Nandlal Bose.
A comprehensive system of education should ideally address the various
components of ones being such as the physical, the mental or intellectual, the
emotional and the spiritual. Most art activities are essentially multidimensional
addressing one or more of the above components and engage the individual
simultaneously in the ‘thinking’ as well as ‘doing’ mode. Drawing, dancing,
singing, clay modeling, storytelling, acting, or playing a musical instrument
involve a multitude of physical, mental, and intellectual tasks and challenges
and stimulate different areas of the brain simultaneously. And above all these
activities offer one the opportunity to connect with the creative side in each of
us, where one is free to feel, express, share and to create beauty with no fear of
being judged as right or wrong- in other words, connect with the child in each of
us. And hence the experience of Arts-in-Education is extremely fruitful if
implemented in the right manner.
Art experience is a process, whose fundamental element is no longer the material
and mechanical ‘work of art’ but rather the stages of ‘experience’. An experience
personally affects your life. Art experience provides this multidimensional
learning. In art experience, every step involves making a decision, what color to
use? How to make a line? What size to make something? What to perform?
With every choice, art becomes more and more a personal experience shared by
many.
Through art experience, the child creates visual manifestation of abstract ideas.
Ares of art experience would include: