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
Show the people through their children that one may dress better
on fifty dollars, understanding art principles, than on five
hundred dollars not understanding symmetry, design, color, harmony,
and proportion. With this knowledge you furnish a lovelier home
on five hundred dollars than on five thousand without it. Get your
art away from the studio into life. Teach your children the gospel
of beauty and good taste in their letter writing, their picture
hangings, their clothes, everything they do.
Since the vocational program also provides class instruction for women
who have entered upon the pursuit of home making, as well as for girls
of school age, there has been some opportunity to extend art training
to these women through adult classes. An attempt has been made in
classes in art related to the home, home furnishing, and in clothing
classes to give a training which will help them to better appreciate
the influence upon family life of attractive and comfortable homes, of
careful selection and arrangement of home furnishings, and of
intelligent purchasing and selection of clothing.
For the girls who have dropped out of school and have entered upon
employment, part-time classes have been organized under the vocational
program. To these the girls may come for a definite period each week to
secure such instruction as will further extend their general education,
better prepare them for their present work, and also improve their
home life. To the extent that the employed girl improves her personal
appearance, makes her living quarters more attractive, and enjoys the
finer things of life she is more valuable to her employer and is an
asset to society. Much has been accomplished in this direction but
there is a large opportunity in most of the States for more definite
attention to such needs of the employed girl.
Section II
PURPOSE OF THE BULLETIN
The aim of related art education is to develop appreciation and
character through attempting to surround one's self with things that
are honest and consistent as well as beautiful.--Goldstein.
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