Overview and Link
(Here’s one for those of you who work with older students especially.)
This is an article from the journal Art Education (Vol. 63, No. 2 (March 2010), pp. 31-37), by Olivia Gude, a professor in the School of Art and Design at University of Illinois, Chicago.
She argues that there is a contradiction between conventional ways of teaching art and the ways creativity is promoted. She proposes a new framework for teaching, inspired by Carl Rogers’ ideas about the importance of psychological safety and psychological freedom, where the purpose is to stimulate creative learning. It is arranged by principles such as: ‘playing’, ‘forming self’, ‘encountering differences’, and ‘not knowing’.
Playing, Gude says, is the “first (and foundational) principle”.
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