SO2G5-15 Culture and the arts in education and society
Image Credit: Imagineer
What are the roles of art-making in education and society? This module invites you to explore the ways in which art-making and culture are important in human societies. We begin by looking at these issues through the lenses of our own experience, and the innovative ways in which art-making is deployed in educational settings. The module will draw upon your tutor’s experience as an arts educator, former director of a national arts-based education programme and arts education researcher. You will engage with a range of educative and social art-making practices, reflect on their experiences and consider these in the light of a broad range of sociological and education literatures.
Along the way we will consider the pluralism of art-making and its role in both critiquing and enhancing political ideologies. We will conclude by considering the potential moral purpose(s) of art-making, as well as consolidating our learning through a series of student lead group presentations.
Sessions will involve experiential activities, lectures and discussions. You will form a small study group, with several others to review and discuss your own responses to each other’s blogs on sessions and experiences. Whilst weekly sessions constitute the core content, students may engage with and draw also on other arts and cultural experiences. These might be campus/locality-based/online, personally defined visits. You will be invited to take a personal stance in relation to the value of arts and culture in education.
Before term you may wish to see Imagineer’s Bridge which is in Coventry Broadgate 27th and 28th September and will also be live streamed https://www.imagine-bridge.co.uk.
Key Information
Optional module
15 CATS
Assessments:
- Formative: 1000 word draft (500 word rationale for personally defined focus; 500 word blog)
- Summative: 3,000 word written assignment (3 x 500 word blogs framed by 1,500 words of critique)
Module Convenor: Jo Trowsdale