The Teaching of Art Related to the Home: Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economicsFallgatter, Florence
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The Teaching of Art Related to the Home: Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics
Fallgatter, Florence
Art -- Study and teaching; Home economics -- Study and teaching
Training which provides for many applications of the art principles as
they are developed gives the girl an ability to use these principles in
solving the problems which arise at other times in home-making units.
It is preferable therefore to arrange the vocational program so that
the art instruction parallels or precedes those units in homemaking in
which there is particular need for art. However, if the program can
not include the teaching of art as a consecutive unit paralleling or
preceding certain units in homemaking, it will be far better for the
home-economics teacher to include art training as it is needed in
the homemaking work than to omit it or attempt to proceed without the
basic fundamental information necessary for the successful solution of
many problems in home economics. In such a plan, time and opportunity
should be definitely provided later in the homemaking program to
summarize and unify the art training that has been given at various
times in order that it may function in the lives of the pupils to a
larger extent than that of solving only the immediate problems for
which it was introduced. Such a summarization will make possible the
application of the essential principles of art to a wide variety of
situations and will mean not only a more thorough understanding of
these principles but a more permanent ability to use them in achieving
beauty and satisfaction in environment.
There are then three possible plans for including art instruction in
the vocational program in homemaking, namely:
1. By presenting the course in art related to the home as a separate
semester or year course that parallels the homemaking course. When
it is a semester course, it is well to offer art the first half of
the year in order that it may be of greatest value to the first
units in clothing.
2. By giving the course in art related to the home as a separate unit
in the homemaking course. Such an art unit should precede that
homemaking unit in which there is greatest need as well as opportunity
for many applications of the principles of art which are being
developed. This will usually be the unit in clothing or home
furnishing.
3. By giving short series of art lessons as needs arise in the homemaking
course. Certain dangers have been pointed out in this plan. If used,
it should include a definite time for unifying and summarizing the
art work at the end of the course.
OBJECTIVES FOR THE TEACHING OF ART
In the vocational program in which the teaching is specifically designed
to train for homemaking, it is obvious that the major objective in the
related art units should be to train for the consumption of art objects
rather than for their production. Bobbitt[5] elaborates on this objective
as follows:
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