Art in Education : Identity and Practice

by Atkinson, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9781402010842
• ISBN10: 1402010842
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book draws upon important developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences, particularly semiotics, hermeneutics, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis, which focus on the centrality of language, discourse and power in order to understand social processes. It applies such study to the professional field of art in education and in doing so develops new insights into how art practice is conceived in this field and how children, students and teachers acquire their particular identities. The distinctive and unique approach of the book is that it opens up art education to the broader field of social enquiry into practice, subjectivity and identity thereby situating art education within a shifting ideological and political space. New perspectives are opened for teachers, teacher educators and student teachers as well as researchers and other professionals involved in art education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
About the Author	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
Memory Seed	1	(4)
Theories of Learning	5	(1)
Learning Theory in Art Education	6	(2)
Representation and Signification	8	(1)
Identity and Difference	9	(1)
The Idea of Experience	10	(2)
Outline of the Book	12	(3)
PART ONE: INTERPRETATION AND PRACTICE	15	(78)
Semiotics and Hermeneutics	17	(30)
Introduction	17	(1)
Semiotics	18	(10)
The Saussurian legacy	19	(2)
The Peircian legacy	21	(5)
Metonymy and metaphor in drawing practices	26	(2)
Hermeneutics and the Problem of Interpretation	28	(4)
Phenomenology and hermeneutics	29	(1)
Hermeneutic circle	30	(2)
Hermeneutic Strategies	32	(10)
Hermeneutics of reproduction	33	(2)
Hermeneutics of dialogue and tradition	35	(1)
Phenomenological hermeneutics: narrative and textuality	36	(2)
Hermeneutics of emancipation	38	(2)
Gadamer, Habermas and Ricoeur: a summary of implications for art in Education	40	(2)
Post-Structural Hermeneutics	42	(5)
Surveillance, regulation and power	42	(2)
Dissemination, deconstruction and differance	44	(1)
Summary	45	(2)
Semiotics, Hermeneutics and Observational Drawings	47	(10)
The Semiotics of Children's Drawing Practices	57	(22)
Language Games, Drawing Games	62	(4)
Drawings from Australia	66	(1)
Children Drawing Objects	67	(9)
Mystery	76	(1)
Summary	77	(2)
Experience and the Hermeneutics and Semiotics of Visuality	79	(14)
Perspective and Visual Representation	84	(2)
Visualities of Difference	86	(7)
PART TWO: IDENTITY AND PRACTICE	93	(66)
Constructions of Identity	95	(18)
The Truman Show	95	(1)
Changing the Subject	96	(2)
Althusser	98	(1)
Foucault	98	(1)
Normalisation	99	(1)
Discourse	100	(2)
Discourses of Normalisation and Identification in Art Education	102	(2)
Power-Knowledge	104	(5)
Video Sequence	109	(4)
Identity and Psychoanalysis	113	(24)
Lacan: The Imaginary, The Symbolic and the Real	114	(23)
The imaginary	114	(2)
The symbolic	116	(1)
The Other is always lacking	117	(1)
The Other and marginalized identifications	118	(1)
The subject of discourse and the subject of desire: a rapprochement	119	(2)
The Ambassadors	121	(1)
Assessment and the pedagogised other	121	(3)
Pedagogised identities: inclusion and exclusion	124	(1)
Identity and objet petit a	125	(1)
Point de capiton	126	(3)
Fetishism, assessment and identity	129	(2)
Identity and the Real	131	(3)
Summary	134	(3)
The Field of Art in Education	137	(22)
Recent Pedagogies For Art Education in England	138	(2)
The National Curriculum for Art in England	140	(5)
Bourdieu's Notions of Field and Habitus	145	(2)
Change in the Field	147	(1)
Chreods and Epigenetic Landscapes	148	(3)
Teacher and Learner Identities in the Field of Art Education	151	(1)
Narrative 1	151	(2)
Narrative 2	153	(2)
Narrative 3	155	(1)
Narrative 4	156	(3)
PART THREE: DIFFERENCE AND PRACTICE	159	(38)
Experience, Difference and Practice	163	(22)
Forms of Life	163	(1)
Two Narratives	164	(3)
Practice and Change	167	(2)
Experience and Experiencing	169	(3)
Difference	172	(1)
Students' Work	173	(12)
Experience and Practice: Theorising New Identifications	185	(12)
Consequences of the Critique of Experience for Art in Education	188	(6)
End Piece	194	(3)
References	197	(6)
Subject Index	203	(2)
Name Index	205