Three Initiatives for Community-Based Art Education Practices
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2013-07
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Lim, Maria
Chang, Eunjung
Song, Borim
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According to Lawton (2010), art educators should be concerned with teaching their
students to make critical connections between the classroom and the outside world.
one effective way to make these critical connections is to provide students with the
opportunity to engage in community-based art endeavors (Bolin, 2000; Gude, 2007). In this
article, three university art educators discuss engaging preservice art teachers in community
arts events. The first author reviews a collaborative mural project as a meaning-making process
that fostered a constructive partnership between the university and the local public school
and promoted preservice art teachers’ positive attitudes toward community service-learning
art projects. The second author examines the Pecan Festival as a community service-learning
activity for preservice art teachers. She emphasizes the importance of studying the local community
and environment while connecting the art education course curriculum to a community
art event. The third author reflects on the significant benefits preservice art teachers achieved
through community involvement and outreach with the Youth Art Festival.
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Copyright holder is the National Art Education Association. All rights reserved.
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LIM, M., CHANG, E., & SONG, B. (2013). Three Initiatives for Community-Based Art Education Practices. Art Education, 66(4), 7-13. Retrieved March 26, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24765921