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Art education

1. in the Philippines
Art Education

2. Think
“Art Education” - refers to the teaching
and learning of the visual arts, i.e.,
drawing,, painting, sculpture, etc. This is
to distinguish it from education in other
artistic fields, such as music, dance, and
theater.

3. Three Periods
01
02
03
The Experimental Period
(1915 - 1935)
The New Movement
(1935 - 1950)
The Newer Movement
(1950 - present)
Santiago (2013)
During this time, Art Education was
primarily drawing (it was literally
“Drawing” in the curriculum), where
the students learned via imitation,
and the instructional methods
were “dull and authoritarian”. Early
attempts were made to correlate
drawing with other subjects, such
as English, industrial works, and
language.

4. Three Periods
01
02
03
The Experimental Period
(1915 - 1935)
The New Movement
(1935 - 1950)
The Newer Movement
(1950 - present)
Santiago (2013)
Vicente Dizon is credited by
Santiago with starting the New
Movement in Art Education,
characterized by a growing
understanding of the desired
philosophy for teaching art not
only in the elementary grades, but
also in high school and college, and
an increasing practicality in the
teaching of art.

5. Three Periods
01
02
03
The Experimental Period
(1915 - 1935)
The New Movement
(1935 - 1950)
The Newer Movement
(1950 - present)
Santiago (2013)
It was in 1950 that “Drawing”
became “Art Education” and when
Pablo Victoria, an art professor at
the Philippine Normal College,
pioneered integrating art with
other subjects in the curriculum.
His 1959 book, Art in the
Elementary School, clarifies and
elaborates on the role of both
teachers and learners in art
education.

6. Benefits of
Art
Education
Working in the arts helps
learners develop creative
problem-solving skills.
1.
2. Teaching through the arts
can present difficult concepts
visually, making them more
easy to understand.
3. Art instruction helps
children with the development
of motor skills, language,
social, decision-making, risk-
taking, and inventiveness.

7. Benefits of
Art
Education
4. Visual arts teach learners
about color, layout, perspective,
and balance: all techniques that
are necessary in presentations
(visual, digital) of academic
work.
5. Integrating art with other
disciplines reaches students
who might not otherwise be
engaged in classwork.

8. Benefits of
Art
Education
6. Arts experiences boost critical
thinking, teaching students to
take the time to be more careful
and thorough in how they
observe the world.
7. The arts provide challenges
for learners at all levels.
8. Art education connects
students with their own
culture as well as with the
wider world.

9. Problems
in Artistic
Values

10. Teacher Issues
It should come as no
surprise that teaching as a
whole is not the career of
choice for a majority of
Filipinos, with many of its
practitioners a victime of the
“mag-teacher ka na lang!”
mentality in the culture.
Art educators in the country
face a number of self-
esteem issues, expressed
through statements like “I’m
not talented enough to be a
real artist” or “There’s no
money in the arts, so I teach
in order to make a living.”

11. Teacher Issues
When it comes to art
educators is the lack of good
training. Teachers by training
are specialists, but upon
being deployed in the field -
often due to economic
reasons - they are often
called upon to teach subjects
outside their specialization,
leading to half-baed “hilaw”
teaching. Anecdotal evidence
abounds teachers who had to
teach art despite of having
zero training and even zero
exposure to art activities
since childhood.

12. Art as a
Subject
Art in the curriculum is still
often viewed as a “subject”
rather than an avenue for
self-expression. This results
in a teaching of that is overly
academic, focusing on facts
about art rather than on the
practice and creation of art.
Static view of art that is only
considered “legitimate” if it
is comparable to the work of
the “masters”, i.e., museum-
standard - something that
simply that simply cannot be
achieved by children in the
early grades.

13. Student
Discipline
Many students struggle with
motivation issues due to an
unnecessarily vicious cycle of
criticism from family, peers,
and ill-equipped teachers,
thereby limiting their
willingness to invest the
hours needed to master skills
needed to create art.
Lack of student respect
toward art materials.
Wastefulness, neglecting to
store materials properly, and
the lack of a general sense of
order and cleanliness both
while and after working are all
sources of great frustration
for art educators.

14. Art as a Luxury
“Pang mayaman lang ‘yan” -
nice to have, but nonessential
to the average working Filipino.
Art is considered the privilege
of the elite - those who do not
have to actually work for a living
and can therefore devote the
time, energy, and money
needed to participate in artistic
endeavors.
Consequently, art is among
the lowest subjects in terms
of priority when it comes to
issues like budget, time,
resource allocation, etc.

15. Problems
related to
physical
requirements

16. Limited
Materials
There is a lack of recognition
of the alternative art
materials that are available in
the immediate environment.
This serves to only propagate
the perception that unless it
is created with the so-called
“mainstream” art materials
Example:
acrylic/oil paints, charcoals,
pastels, etc.), then it is not
really art.

17. Workspaces
Many schools have no
dedicated space for art classes,
let alone extracurricular artistic
pursuits. Students must make
do with regular classrooms ill-
suited for the purpose. As a
result, some forms of artistic
expression simply cannot be
explored,
particularly those that
require more than one class
meeting (e.g., painting on
canvas, sculpture carving,
etc.) as they raise issues
concerning cleanup, storage,
maintaining the integrity of
unfinished student work.

18. Management
Issues
There is a severe lack of
awareness as to how to
manage and organize an art
class in order to maximize
learning and ensure students’
safety. This is especially
important during art activities
that involve sharp objects, like
carving and sculpture.
There is a need for such
management skills to be
intentionally taught, as many
students will be
experiencing handling and
storing potentially
dangerous tools for the very
first time in their lives.

19. EXERCISE
Imagine having a student with
great artistic talent but does not
have the support of his or her
family since they believe that his
or her artistic pursuits are a
waste of time and money. How
would you convince them
otherwise?

20. Thank you