Annotated Bibliography
In switching my topic and
research question, what I have discovered is that I feel pretty clueless where
to start or how to hone in my research (I’ve also discovered my formal
researching skills are pretty rusty.) [New research question: How does an art teacher's room reflect his/her teaching
philosophy? Hmmm, or should it be DOES an
art teacher's room reflect his/her teaching philosophy? This too probably
needs some refining]
Starting research for my
bibliography, I began with sources that may enlighten me to the language of
semiotics and to how to define art teacher “philosophies”. So I began with sources that Dr. Pinnow
had mentioned, hoping they will give me more insight into this fascinating
language. This might be some heavy reading, but will hopefully be very
interesting.
1. Gunther
Kress, Theo van Leeuwen (2006) Reading
Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
Reading Images builds on its reputation as the
first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design.
Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook
illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms
such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images
communicate meaning. Features include:
- new material on moving images and on colour
- a discussion of how images and their uses have changed through time
- websites and web-based images
- ideas on the future of visual communication.
Reading Images focuses on the structures or 'grammar' of visual design –
colour, perspective, framing and composition – provides the reader with an
invaluable 'tool-kit' for reading images and makes it a must for anyone
interested in communication, the media and the arts.
2.
Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen (2001) Multimodal
Discourse.
Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of
interactive multimedia. Kress and Van Leeuwen show how two kinds of thought
processes interact in the design and production of communicative messages:
"design thinking" and "production thinking," the kind of
thinking which occurs in direct interaction with the materials and media used.
This book will be a key text in courses of language, media and communication
willing to take on the theoretical challenges posed by multimodality,
mulitmedia and multi-skilling, and it provides inspiring theoretical input for
courses in interactive multimedia design.
3.
Gunther Kress (2009) Multimodality:
A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication.
The 21st century is awash with ever
more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D
objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes
of communication and meaning making.
Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication
represents a long-awaited and much anticipated addition to the study of
multimodality from the scholar who pioneered and continues to play a decisive
role in shaping the field. Written in an accessible manner and illustrated with
a wealth of photos and illustrations to clearly demonstrate the points made, Multimodality:
A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication deliberately sets
out to locate communication in the everyday, covering topics and issues not
usually discussed in books of this kind, from traffic signs to mobile phones.
I also decided I should
look at what areas might define a teacher’s philosophy and the history of art
education that may inform current teaching styles and methods.
1.
G. James Daichendt (2010)
Artist-Teacher: A Philosophy for Creating
and Teaching
Is an artist-teacher a mere professional who balances a career—or
does the duality of making and teaching art merit a more profound
investigation? Rejecting a conventional understanding of the artist-teacher,
this book sets out to present a robust history from the classical era to the twenty-first
century. Particular pedagogical portraits—featuring George Wallis, Walter
Gropius, Johannes Itten, Victor Pashmore, Richard Hamilton, Arthur Wesley Dow,
and Hans Hoffmann—illustrate the artist-teacher in various contexts. This book
offers a revelation of the complex thinking processes artists utilize when
teaching, and a reconciliation of the artistic and educational enterprises as
complimentary partners.
2.
Jane K. Bates (2000) Becoming an Art Teacher
This
book introduces the student to the field of teaching, discusses theory and
practice of Art Education, and synthesizes and prepares students to make the
transition from student to Art teacher. It presents art education as an
integration of philosophy, history, theory, and practice. Bates illustrates how
to apply theory to practice as an art educator. Models, methods, and
experiences are provided to enlighten, inspire, and amuse.
3. Mary
Stankiewicz (2001). Roots of Art Education Practice (Art
Education in Practice Series) Weaving together accepted ideas about
art, children, and schooling, the author tells the story of art education
practice a century ago. Readers will gain insights into the circumstances under
which curricular practices originated, and will better appreciate the beliefs
that shape art education today.
4. Arthur D. Efland (1989) A
History of Art Education: Intellectual and Social Currents in Teaching the
Visual Arts. Recent debates on the place of the arts in American life has refocused
attention on art education in schools. In this book, the author puts current
debate and concerns in a well-researched historical perspective. He examines
the institutional settings of art education throughout Western history, the
social forces that have shaped it and the evolution and impact of alternate
streams of influence on present practice. The book treats the visual arts in
relation to developments in general education and particular emphasis is placed
on the 19th and 20th centuries and on the social context that has affected our
concept of art today. The book is intended as a main text in history of art
education courses, as a supplemental text in courses in art education methods
and history of education, and as a resource for students, professors and
researchers.
5.
Stuart MacDonald (1970) The History and Philosophy of Art Education. Dr.
Macdonald investigates the continuous developments of Art and Design education
in Italy, France, Britain, Germany, and the United States. The study traces the
philosophies of teachers from the age of the guilds and the academies to today,
and sets them in the context of the general education theories of their times.
Stuart Macdonald clarifies the whole field of art education for research and
teaching purposes. He points out that the knowledge of the principles and
methods of art education is essential for a true understanding of the art of
different periods. He makes clear that art education should be studied within
the existing education disciplines of history, philosophy, psychology, and
sociology of education. Essentially factual, using many quotations from primary
sources not generally available, this book gives a disciplined grounding in a
branch of the history of education, and describes the philosophies which
continue to govern courses in Art and Design.
Then I began looking at some research that looks into
effect of the environment of schools on performance –
6. Pamela
Woolnera, Elaine Halla*, Steve Higginsa, Caroline
McCaugheya & Kate Walla (2007)
A sound foundation? What we know about the impact
of environments on learning and the implications for Building Schools for the
Future
Oxford Review of
Education, Volume 33,
Issue 1, pages 47-70.
This paper reports on a literature review conducted in the UK for the
Design Council and CfBT (Higgins et al., 2005)
which looked at the evidence of the impact of environments on learning in
schools. We have reviewed the available evidence regarding different facets of
the physical environment and provided an analysis based on different areas of
effect, including the extent to which different facets interact (positively and
negatively) with one another. Our conclusions suggest that, although the
research often indicates the parameters of an effective environment, there is
an overall lack of empirical evidence about the impact of individual elements
of the physical environment which might inform school design at a practical
level to support student achievement. However, at a secondary level of
analysis, there are indications that environmental change can be part of a
catalytic process of school development and improvement. The implications of
these findings for Building Schools for the Future will be discussed.
7. Metzger,
Richard L.; Boschee, Pamela F.; Haugen, Terry; Schnobrich, Barbara L.
The classroom as learning context: Changing rooms affects performance.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol
71(4), Aug 1979, 440-442. doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.71.4.440 Studied the role of
the classroom as a context that can affect memory, using a multiple time-series
design. Two classes of 25 undergraduates each were given weekly quizzes in
their regular classroom over a baseline period, were moved to a different room
on separate target weeks, and finally were returned to their classroom. Moving
had a significant deleterious effect, particularly on students doing well in
the course. (8 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights
reserved)
8. Carol S.
Weinstein (1979)
The Physical Environment of the School: A Review of the
Research REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Fall 1979 vol. 49
no. 4 577-610
This paper reviews research on the impact of classroom
environments on student behavior, attitudes, and achievement. The first section
examines studies of six environmental variables: seating position, classroom
design, density, privacy, noise, and the presence or absence of windows. In the
second part of the paper, research conducted from an “ecological” perspective
is considered. A third section focuses on the effects of open space school
designs. Finally, some future directions for research are discussed, and the
advantages and limitations of various research designs are summarized.
Lastly,
I discovered an interesting research article on educational semiotics and
looking at field studies in France. (PESCE, S. (2011), Institutional Pedagogy
and Semiosis: Investigating the missing link between Peirce's semiotics and
effective semiotics. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43: 1145–1160.
doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00633.x) This led me to look further into
these resources, hoping they might be of use. I was not able to move forward in
finding them in order to read them, but wanted to include them here as a
possible next step.
Cunningham, D. J. (1987) Outline of an
Educational Semiotic, The American Journal of Semiotics, 5:2,
Special Issue, ‘Semiotics and Education’, pp. 210–216.
Deely, J. (2004) Semiotics and Jakob
von Uexküll's Concept of Umwelt, Sign System Studies, 32:1/2, pp.
11–34.
Manning, P. K. (1987) Semiotics and
Fieldwork, Qualitative Research Methods Volume 7 (Newbury Park, CA, Sage
Publications).
McHoul, A. (1996) Semiotic
Investigations. Towards an effective semiotics (Lincoln, NE, University of
Nebraska Press).
McLaren, P. (1989) Life in Schools.
An introduction to critical pedagogy in the foundations of education
(Boston, Allyn & Bacon).
Stables, A. (2006) Living and
Learning as Semiotic Engagement: A new theory of education (New York, Edwin
Mellen Press).
Tochon, F.V. (2002) Semiotic
Consciousness in Education: An introduction, International Journal of
Applied Semiotics, 3:2, pp. 3–8.
I
definitely feel like my research has been too broad and I need to figure out
the language for what exactly it is I’m trying to look into. This may take a
question and answer session with Kathy and/or class members.
