Art Education Teaching Philosophy

Amy Johnson

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.

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

Art Education provides for different options

How does Art Education provide options?

Art is open to interpretation; it has no “right” or “wrong”

Amy Johnson 2005

Students aged 9-12

Art accepts insight can be knowledge

Amy Johnson 2008

Students aged 9-11

Art connects the verbal with the non-verbal

Amy Johnson 2009 Students aged 7-16

Art Education combines learning with emotion

Amy Johnson 2009

Students aged 8-16

Art Education helps develop personal identity

Students aged 8-12

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Art connects the self with the world at large.

Amy Johnson 2008 Students aged 9-13

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

. . .And, of course we have fun!