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Re: Dumpster diving

From: Larry Seiler (lseiler@ez-net.com)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 10:18:40 PST

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    From: Patricia Knott <pknott>
    Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:17:33 -0500

    > I think sometimes we get caught up in administrative
    > demands for objectives and assessments and we forget
    > what art is all about. Are we teaching our potential artists
    > to be the questioners?

    Ooohh..sore subject. Great question. One school I taught at was sheer
    hell! Everything the administrator wanted to evaluate art was based upon
    Madeline Hunter. I was so thrilled when Madeline Hunter came out with
    another book entitled, "What I Have Against Madeline Hunter!" because she
    never intended her books to be used the way administrators used them to
    strap and enslave teachers, but just as books for teachers.

    This particular administrator was totally set in convergent analytical
    step-by-step linear thinking.....and could not understand the higher order
    thinking that creative minds divergently use. I ended up typing eight
    pages of notes per week on lesson plans to satisfy him, detailing in depth
    the intent behind my strategies.

    I finally figured out....that such is used to help mediocre teachers
    improve, and make great teachers mediocre.

    > The system is filled with regimentation and ridgedness.
    > I won't let my art program go the administration way.

    hope you have tenure.....! <smile>

    > I want to make my art students to think about their choices,
    > but I also want them to have the freedom to question and
    > to trust their decisions.

    but...our job is not to crank out artists....only expose in such a way that
    they gain an appreciation for the arts. <smile> Your opening their minds
    to think like artists might lead to disastrous consequences!

    I certainly understand what you are saying....(look at my tag signature by
    Shaw!)

    Larry Seiler
    WetCanvas Artists pages- (shorter and quicker loading)
    http://www.wetcanvas.com/Gallery/S/Larry_Seiler/index.html
    http://www.artistnation.com/members/lofts/lseiler/
    "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
    persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
    depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw 

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