Executive Summary of the North Texas Regional Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, 1988/1989 Page: 2 of 4
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The University of North Texas in cooperation with the Getty
Center for Education in the Arts and a consortium of area school
districts (Plano ISD, Fort Worth ISD, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD,
Denton ISD and Pilot Point ISD), museums (Amon Carter, Dallas
Museum of Art, Kimbel, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth), arts
councils (Fort Worth and Tarrant County and Denton), and state
agencies (Texas Commission on the Arts and Texas Education
Agency) has established the North Texas Regional Institute for
Educators on the Visual Arts with a $625,000 matching grant from
the Getty Center for Education on the Arts, an operating unit of
the J. Paul Getty Trust. The North Texas Regional Institute for
Educators on the Visual Arts is one of six regional consortia in
the United States to receive a matching grant from the Getty
Center.
A national movement to reform education in the United States
has occurred during the decade of the 1980s and a major part of
this movement has been a call to expand the role and to increase
the rigor of education in the arts. In response, a major,
national movement known as discipline-based art education (DBAE)
has been initiated and supported by the Getty Center for
Education in the Arts. DBAE advocates a rigorous and
comprehensive approach to education in the arts as a part of the
general education of every child through integrating skills,
knowledge, and understanding from the four subdisciplines of the
visual arts: art production, art history, art criticism, and
aesthetics. This is in contrast to existing visual arts programs
which generally deal only with art production. This approach
has been endorsed by the College Board, the Council of Chief
State School Officers, the National Art Education Association,
the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of
Education.
Consistent with DBAE is the 67th Texas Legislature's mandate
(1981) which prescribes essential elements in art for each grade
level and requires that the visual arts be taught at the
elementary level. Paralleling DBAE, the Texas essential elements
in art are:
* awareness and sensitivity to natural and man-made
environments (aesthetics)
* inventive and imaginative expression through art
materials and tools (production)
* understanding and appreciation of self and others
through art culture and heritage (art history)
* aesthetic growth through visual discrimination and
judgment (aesthetics and criticism).
To respond to these educational reforms, staff development is
essential for the classroom teacher, the arts specialist teacher,
and docents if the legislatively-mandated essential elements in
art and a discipline-based curriculum is to be fully implemented
as a part of the general education of every child.
The Institute will address a discipline-based art education
(DBAE) program which incorporates the Texas art essential
elements by (a) working with the leadership of the consortium
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