BLE-ED 501 Experiencing Multicultural Art

Course Description

This course is designed to give educators information and techniques that will increase their students' understanding, knowledge, and appreciation of many cultures and countries around the world. Teachers will learn how to integrate this information with many other academic areas; thus giving additional motivation and enhancing tools to the informed teacher. Using a variety of hands-on experiences, teachers will learn historic, geographic, and religious influences that contribute to the creation of the art forms of these cultures.

Topics and Objectives

Multicultural Education in Schools

· Define multicultural education.

· Examine diversity in the context of national and local classrooms.

· Analyze the concept and value of multicultural education in today's schools.

Multicultural Art Education

· Define multicultural art education.

· Examine the many benefits of multicultural art education.

· Analyze the relationship between the National Visual Arts standards and a multicultural approach to art education.

· Demonstrate a hands-on multicultural art lesson demonstration.

Construct Multicultural Art Lessons

· Identify criteria for meaningful and constructive art lessons, including the elements and principles of design.

· Compare and contrast multicultural art activities and art lessons.

· Examine the components of a well-constructed multicultural art lesson.

· Create effective culminating activities for multicultural art lessons.

· Apply a hands-on multicultural art lesson.

Experience Multicultural Art Lessons

· Create multicultural art lessons for various parts of the world and for various cultures of the world.

· Compare and contrast the background, significance, meaning, visual elements, and principles of design present in the arts and crafts of various cultures.

· Apply culminating activities for successful multicultural art lessons.

Integrate and Evaluate Multicultural Art Lessons

· Identify methods of integrating and evaluating multicultural art lessons.

· Create multicultural art lessons.

· Teach a multicultural art lesson.

· Identify a multicultural art unit of study.

· Create plans for a multicultural art unit of study.

Identify and Create a Multicultural Art Unit of Study

· Identify the components of a successful and meaningful multicultural unit of study.