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

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Planning and Organization of Art Education
Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed)
Experiences planned should be multisensory and should include observation,
exploration, experimentation and creation. Teacher should also consider the time
table schedule and planning time.
Teacher can look for expertise available in the community such as parents, artists,
professionals and can invite them to make the lesson communicative,
knowledgeable and interesting .
Planning of art experience includes:
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Having an idea of what to do?
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Using materials and tools as stimulus.
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Organizing space and time.
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Creating supportive environment.
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Vision for a display area.
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Record keeping for evaluation both during and after completion of work.
Suggestions for some activities:
Let us take the example of a Dance activity. The teachers would need knowledge
of the dance-form, related music and literature, costume, make-up and stage-
craft. For all the above elements the itineraries have be taken up one by one
through organized and proper planning. E.g
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the topic has to be selected
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a little research work on the content has to be done from text books, library
books, discussion with experts, parents and community people
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a format of the theme and content has to be decided tentatively (this changes
and improves as ideas and creativity improves due to the space given by the
facilitator)
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the scenes have to be planned
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Music has to be created fresh, if pre-composed or pre-recorded selection
has to be done wisely. If live music is a criteria then it has to be created and
planned with the musicians
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Costumes, jewellery types have to be planned. (in school if jewellery or
costume is made by children in a workshop it is extremely useful and the
experience becomes enjoyable, memorable and creative)
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The space has to be observed and with the help of children the best utilization
can be done

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