Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Laura Hall
ETEC 532/65A
University of British Columbia
Instructor: Dr. Alex de Cosson
23 February 2016
Art is a form of expression that helps us to understand and make sense of the
world around us. From billboards to curriculum-based resources, the arts help us to foster
a sense of understanding to learners around the world, speaking in a universal language to
which we are all able to generate meaning. A multimodal approach to teaching and story
telling are emerging as the new dominant form of information delivery. Making
information more accessible to the learner through various platforms, multimedia is
infiltrating the field of education through multimodal pedagogies making information and
resources accessible to the everyday learner. With these leaps in information delivery,
museums and galleries are shifting information to a multimedia online platform
supporting a global acquisition of knowledge. The changing modes of communication
and information transmission demand a new and more interactive approach to engage and
motivate the twenty-first century learner.
Multimedia is understood to be the combination of text, sound, images and video
to present information (n.d.). The ability to integrate more than one method to present
information helps to support different types of learners and to support authentic
opportunities to make connections to material (Siegel, 2012). It does so through
providing unique opportunities to interact with material from presentation of
information to ways of demonstrating understanding, multimedia allows the learner to
construct their own understanding, generating a reflective and critical practice as they
approach content (Moon, 2001). Discipline-based art education (DBAE) is an education
approach designed to integrate multimedia into the learning environment to generate
knowledge, skill and understanding of art (Getty Education Institute for the Arts). DBAE
was created in response to art educators who had been calling for a more holistic,
comprehensive, and multifaceted approach to art education (Getty Education Institute
for the Arts). Working to develop four main areas in art education, DBAE aims to
promote art production, art criticism, art history and the understanding and value of art
through aesthetics (Getty Education Institute for the Arts). In effect, DBAE is designed
to provide exposure to, experience with, and acquisition of content from several
disciplines of knowledge (Dobbs, 1998, p.3).
DBAE attempts to build knowledge through connections with other disciplines.
The Getty Museum, through their website, applies a interdisciplinary approach to
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