Class Didactics of Visual Arts II

Combining the theory with practice deals with the pedagogy of the teaching of the arts, having as main reference the world of images of the forms and their resources. It calls for the most current knowledge in the field of visual arts, as well as methodologies and teaching strategies, in order to put them at the service of students ' learning. It develops competencies and aptitudes for critical reflection on the teaching of Arts in contemporaneity and for the practice of pedagogical innovation processes.Área de preenchimento obrigatório.

The work of art in the classroom:

Intelligence and aesthetic experience
Stages of aesthetic development in its appreciation
Integration of the work of art in the programming of activities; strategies. Artistic education and the educational projects of museums and other institutions

Arts and multidisciplinarity

Importance of the integration with other areas and common projects

Examples from the practice

Plastic expression and creativity
Creativity in visual arts
Components and stages of creative thinking Methods and techniques for its development Assessing creativity

Teaching in postmodernity
Contemporary debates, perspectives and challenges ¿ connections to contemporary art; inclusion, multiculturalism
Teaching theories: visual culture and the meanings of images in culture. New media for artistic creation (drawing, photography, cinema and information technologies)

Research in visual arts

We use active and diversified teaching/learning methodologies: Distribution of texts selected by groups; group discussion and subsequent debate open to the whole class.

Invitation to students from previous years to present their work to the class, followed by a debate

Investigation of a topic by the students and presentation to the class followed by a debate.

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