Undergraduate Course: Art as Process: Ways of Learning, Making, Working Together (ARTX10055)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course uses notable historical and contemporary case studies from art schools as the basis for a series of workshops and seminars. During the course you will work with peers to collectively investigate what you learn in art school and how you learn it. You will be asked to critically reflect on your own experiences in art school in relation to the educational turn in art practice and the contemporary visual culture theories that have supported it. The course will culminate in you proposing your own new art education models. |
| Course description |
This is a workshop-based course, each session will consist of 1 hour of a practice-led workshop followed by 1 hour of critical reflection and discussion related to the activity and assigned weekly readings.
The course readings will encourage you to analyse and question the forms of learning that art schools accommodate and encourage. Helping you to understand and research your own education within the theoretical context of the educational turn that has occurred within artistic practice. The readings will be drawn from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to provide you with a holistic understanding and contextualisation of the visual culture of art schools. You do not need to have an artistic practice or previous experience of learning in an art school context to be a part of this course.
The workshops and readings will be based on notable approaches to learning from both historical and contemporary art schools and modes of self-organising, from Black Mountain College to School of the Dammed. This will involve engaging in group activities that reenact and/or sample processes of learning, making, and working together. You will work with peers in groups to perform activities related to the approaches, ideologies, and teachings espoused and embodied by the case studies presented on the course. The course is intended to give you an experiential understanding of what and how art schools produce art education and contribute to visual culture discourses. These sessions are also intended to demonstrate how practice-led research into these subjects can be conducted, providing you with the experience and critical tools necessary to tackle your course assignments and develop future independent research proposals.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Undertake a high level of independent scholarly research that concerns problems and issues regarding the visual culture of art education.
- Critically analyse a range of textual and non-textual discourses concerning art school, art education, and theories of learning.
- Articulate research into the visual culture of art education in ways that are imaginative, rigorous and creative.
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Reading List
Madoff, S.H. (2009) Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century), London: MIT Press
Beck, J. & Cornford, M. (2014) The Art School and The Culture Shed. London: The Centre for Useless Splendour
Reardon, J. & Mollin, D. (2009) Ch-ch-ch-changes: Artists Talk About Teaching. London: Ridinghouse
Thorne, S. (2017) School: A Recent History of Self-Organised Art Education, Berlin: Sternberg Press
Bergman, A., Salinas, A. and Boric, I. (2016) Forms of Education: Couldn't Get A Sense of It, Berlin: INCA Press
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Demonstrating a critical, detailed knowledge and understanding of learning theories, educational practices and key examples from the forefront of the field of art education and their relationship to contemporary art practice).
Acquiring critical techniques and approaches that will help the student execute a defined project of research, development and investigation. From which the student will gain knowledge and understanding that makes a significant contribution to the development of the student's Visual Culture and studio-based work).
The ability to critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in art education & learning theories to contemporary art practice).
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| Keywords | Art schools,Visual Culture,Collaboration |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Jake Watts
Tel:
Email: jake.watts@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Nanami Chen
Tel:
Email: ychen7@ed.ac.uk |
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