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A Vital Lesson for Art Educators |
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Contributed by golbanoo
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Since all of art educators lesson plans should be based on age and psychological abilities of students, I thought this is good information for planning a suitable lesson plan.
The Psychological change from elementary to secondary school
Students in the elementary school paint and draw without inhibition. By the time they arrive at fourth, fifth, and, especially, six grade, we find that he is becoming increasingly aware of his own product. Uninhinited expression disappears and by seventh grade he has developed a critical awareness. This critical awareness is not limited to art products, for the youngster is now concious of himself and his own limitation within the society of his peers.
It is at this age, that a youngster begins to realize the unhappy position in which he finds himself. He is now an aware thinking individual but is not yet in a position to take any particular action to change his stage of being.
These youngsters are hostile toward their parents, disillusioned with school, and at times discouraged with themselves.
It is not surprizing, therefore, to find that they are also critical of their own art products.
Now that the child has lost his uninhibited approach to drawing and painting, he has become very conscious of his actions.
This is indeed a critical period in his development. He has not developed a conscious objective approach to his actions, yet he is at the same time insecure with his childish approach to art. This is one reason why so many individuals stop their creative work when they are through with the required courses of art in the junior high school.
It is only for those students who have developed a profound interest in the subject, or have found in it a mechanism by which they can satisfy some of their needs, that art can take on greater meaning.
The sixth grade student usually covers up his drawings when an adult comes by.
The seventh grade is quite reluctant to show anything or have any sort of outside evaluation made of his product.
One of the important tasks of art education during the secondary school, and particulary during the junior high school, is to provide means by which the student will continue in his use of art and will sustain his confidence in his own means of expression.Only registered users can write comments.
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