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
Probably there is no better definition of a problem than the
condition which is spoken of by Doctor Kilpatrick as a "balked
activity." This idea is general enough to include all sorts and
phases of problems, practical and speculative, simple and difficult,
natural and artificial, final and preliminary, empirical and
scientific, and those of skill and information. It covers the
conditions which exist when one does not know what to do either
in whole or in part, and when one knows what to do but not how to
do it, and when one knows what to do and how to do it but for lack
of skill can not do it.
In teaching by the problem-solving method Professor Lancelot[22] makes
use of three types of problems.
Through the first type, known as the _inductive problem_, the pupil
is to determine certain causes or effects in the given situation. In
determining these causes and effects, various details of information
are needed but these do not remain as isolated and unrelated items. Out
of the several facts is evolved a general law, a truth, or a principle.
For example, in developing pupil ability to understand and use the
underlying principle of emphasis, the teacher may make use of such
questions as:
Have you ever tried to watch a three-ring circus? Pupils are
given an opportunity to relate their experiences.
Have you ever seen a store window that reminded you of a circus?
In which of the store windows on Center Street do you think the
merchant has displayed his merchandise to the greatest advantage?
Why?
From a discussion of such questions as these the teacher can lead the
pupil to realize the desirability of avoiding confusion in combining
and arranging articles used together and to understand at least one way
of producing the desired effect.
The next type is the _judgment or reasoning problem_, which offers
two or more possible solutions. In certain subjects as mathematics
in which there is but one correct answer, the reasoning problem is
used. In other subjects in which, in the light of existing conditions,
there is a best answer, the judgment problem is used. This best answer
or final choice is determined upon the basis of the law or principle
established through the inductive problems. Few subjects are more
concerned with the making of choices than art. For this reason,
judgment problems play an important part in an art training which is
to function in the daily lives of pupils. As soon as a principle has
been tentatively established, it is desirable to give the pupils an
opportunity to recognize the use of the principle in several similar
situations and to use it as a basis for making selections. For example,
following the establishment of the principle of emphasis, the teacher
may ask the pupils:
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