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
Tests which are thought provoking and the solving of school problems
are both valuable measures, but they are not sufficient in themselves
for testing art. They fail to reveal whether or not the girl is making
voluntary and satisfactory art applications or appreciating beauty
to any greater extent in her everyday life. Whitford[25] refers to
outcomes as follows:
Two significant and fundamental outcomes of art education are
revealed by an analysis of the relation of this subject to the
social and occupational life of the pupil. These are, first,
ability to recognize and appreciate art quality and to apply
this ability to the needs of everyday life; and, secondly, ability
to produce art quality even though in a relatively elementary form.
When art has been effectively taught there are many tangible evidences
of its functioning in the personal and home life of the girl. What are
some of these tangible evidences that indicate successful art training?
The outstanding ones may be found in the girl's appearance at school
and in the choice and arrangement of furnishings in her room and home.
=Evidences of the Successful Functioning of Art in the Classroom=
Improved personal appearance of pupils may manifest itself in their
selection of ensembles from garments already possessed or from newly
selected garments from the standpoint of--
1. Color combinations.
2. Texture combinations.
3. Appropriateness of clothing for school.
4. Appropriateness of style of garments to the girl.
5. Appropriateness of accessories.
The story of freckled-faced Mary well illustrates how art did function
in one girl's life. She was an unmistakably plain high-school girl.
Her hair was red, her face freckled, and her nose decidedly retrousse.
Her clothes of gaudy colors never fitted and always seemed to emphasize
her personal deficiencies. But one day a new teacher came to the
school, whose business it was to teach home economics, and into her
hands Mary, mercifully, came. A few months later the State supervisor
of home economics, a close observer, visited the school, and her
attention was soon drawn to Mary, not as the worst-looking girl in
the school but as one of the best-looking girls in the school. Soft,
becoming colors, good lines, and a suitable style of garments had
brought out the best tints in her red hair, softened the freckles, and
transformed a plain girl into an attractive one. All of this had been
accomplished as an indirect objective of the teacher in her related
art instruction in home economics. Mary had unconsciously learned that
beauty is, after all, a relative term in regard to individual objects
and that it is the setting that gives grace and charm.
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