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
The vocational programs in homemaking are designed for girls over 14
years of age in the full-time day schools, many of whom do not complete
high school or do not have opportunity for more than a high-school
education; for those young girls, 14 to 18 years of age, who having
dropped out of full-time school can attend the part-time schools;
and for women who are in position to attend adult homemaking classes.
The provision of time in the programs for related subjects as well as
for home-economics subjects covered in these three types of schools
has made it possible to develop the principles of art and science
as more than abstract theories. In this way these principles become
fundamental to the most successful solving of many of the problems in
home economics. The fact that these principles may be applied repeatedly
in many different home-life situations means in turn a very much better
understanding and subsequent use of them.
Through the comparatively few years in which these vocational programs
have been in operation, teachers in all States have attempted with some
success to give an art training that is both practical and vital to
young girls and women. They have, however, been confronted with many
baffling problems. Some of these have been considered by committees
on related subjects and an urgent request was made by one of these
committees that a more detailed discussion of these problems be
published. It is the purpose of the bulletin to point out some of
the most significant problems in connection with art courses that are
related to the work in homemaking and to present the pooled thinking
of various groups upon them to the end that girls and women may know
how to make their homes attractive even with limited incomes and how
to choose and wear clothing effectively and becomingly. Some of the
questions to be answered in an attempt to solve these problems are:
1. What should be the place of art in the homemaking program?
2. What are pupils' greatest art needs?
3. What classroom training will help meet these needs?
4. What are the best methods to use in teaching art?
5. To what extent will laboratory problems function
in meeting pupils' needs?
6. What results should be expected from art training
in the homemaking program?
7. How can these results be measured?
In vocational programs the courses or units in art related to the home
are taught by both art teachers and home-economics teachers. In the
larger schools they are frequently assigned to the regular art teacher,
provided she has had sufficient contact and experience in homemaking
to give her the necessary background for making the fundamental
applications. In this case she follows very closely the work in the
homemaking classes and makes use of every opportunity for correlation
of her art work with the home.
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