School of Education
The Arts: an Interdisciplinary Experience
AE
Thesis:
The premise of this thesis is to consider the role of the arts educator as a curatorial facilitator who sequences an aesthetic experience around the work of art.
Through an aesthetic approach to the arts a podcast can be used to curate a curriculum that engages learners by opening their perception to a work of art through inquiry, research and experimentation.
Washington
and Lafayette at Mount Vernon,
Thomas Pritchard Rossiter and Louis Remy Mignot, 1959
Body Language and Facial Expression
Explore ways in which body gestures, hand gestures, facial gestures can assist in verbal story telling. Explore gestures that occur in everyday tasks. Explore gestures that exaggerate add some to a personal story.
Explore ways in which language can be used to “break out of the box” of its conventional way of transmitting meaning.
What was going on around the time of Washington and Lafayette in 1784? Answer: black holes, Immanuel Kant, Bethovan, Jaquard Loom "punch-card" technology, Columb's theory of electric action.
What was going on around the time of Rossiter and Mignot?
The Teacher as Cultural Curator: Building Multiple Literacies through Collaborations in the Arts
Presented to the Hunter College faculty on February 6, 2007
The Arts