An updated edition of the first book to focus on teaching the visual arts from a cultural standpoint.
Teaching Visual Culture provides the theoretical and practical basis for developing a curriculum that lays the groundwork for art education at all levels (K– 2 and higher education) and across school subjects.
Drawing on material, social, cognitive, aesthetic, and curricular theories, Freedman offers a framework for teaching the visual arts from a cultural standpoint. Chapters discuss visual culture in a democracy
aesthetics in curriculum
philosophical and historical considerations
recent changes in the field of art history
connections between art, student development, and cognition
art inside and outside of school
the role of fine arts in curriculum
visual technologies
television as the national curriculum
student artistic production and assessment
and much more.
Additional content for the Second Edition includes applications of new materialism, ways to document and assess tacit knowledge in students, and uses of AI image generation.
Book Features:
7 full-color images new to the second edition. Both documents and challenges past and current practices of art education for teacher educators, K– 2 teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, school administrators, and community educators. Provides a foundation for art education with ways to update curriculum, an exploration of why newer technologies are making visual literacy essential for all learners, and new ideas about the impact of aesthetics on learning. Covers contemporary issues essential to addressing the increased impact of visual culture across school subjects, including new brain research, visual culture and the environment, the relationship between the diversity of visual culture and identities, and the visual culture of politics.
By:
Kerry Freedman Imprint: Teachers' College Press Country of Publication: United States Edition: 2nd New edition Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 340g ISBN:9780807787120 ISBN 10: 0807787124 Pages: 240 Publication Date:14 April 2025 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Kerry Freedman is a professor of art and design education at Northern Illinois University.