The Teaching of Art Related to the Home: Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics — John Shaqi
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
If the school windows and real curtains are not available for this
problem, some window and curtain models may be borrowed from drapery
departments of local stores for class use. If it is not practicable to
use curtains or to borrow store models, the teacher might prepare in
advance of the class meeting miniature windows for this problem. These
may be made of heavy construction paper, cardboard, or beaver board,
and should be of a size and scale that will permit accuracy in the
conclusions drawn from their use. _The use of miniatures should be
confined to emergency situations, when the real things are not
obtainable._
With some classes it may be necessary to use additional illustrative
materials in which there are no other factors than those of space
division. The teacher may prepare rectangles of neutral paper,
representing any given space to be divided, in which the division is
made by a contrasting line in each of the following ways:
One divided exactly in half.
One with the dividing line between one-half and two-thirds of
the length from one end.
One with the dividing line at a point three-quarters of the length.
One with the dividing line between three-quarters of the entire
length and the end.
Conclusions drawn from a comparison of the above illustrative materials
may in turn be applied to other problems in which color, texture, or
design may have made it difficult in the beginning for the pupils to
focus their attention upon space division.
It is obvious that if choosing candles for certain definite candlesticks
is the introductory problem, candles of varying heights, but of the
same color, will need to be provided if the class is to come to some
definite conclusions. If this problem is used in the judgment series,
as in the lesson above, it will serve as another application of the
principles of space division.
One possible assignment has been given in the lesson. Other possibilities
present themselves as follows:
1. "Where could you find an illustration in which you think there
is particularly pleasing space division? Will you bring such an
illustration to class?" Such an assignment affords additional
training in selection and directs the observation of the pupils
to their environment outside the school.
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