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ERIC Number: EJ765590
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Apr
Pages: 2
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0036-6463
EISSN: N/A
Understanding the Art of Islam
Kader, Themina
SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, v106 n8 p62-63 Apr 2007
Since September 11, 2001, the interest in learning more about Islam, Muslims, and Islamic culture and society has expanded in a variety of ways. The purpose of this brief narrative is to create a sense of curiosity and anticipation to learning more about how Islamic art contributes to the art world. In this article, the author describes a unit that is made up of two weeks of lesson outlines designed for art teachers who wish to take a multicultural interdisciplinary path. The first lesson is an exploratory exercise in which students write down their knowledge of, thoughts about, and any other fact or fiction they may have heard or seen regarding Islamic culture. In the second lesson, the author introduces the concepts of the religious and sacred, both of which are closely related to calligraphy. The purpose of this unit is to provide a guideline on how to teach about a culture that is unfamiliar to students and perhaps to the teacher. With this article, the author hopes to help dispel stereotypes about Islam and, more importantly, enable art teachers to teach about Islamic art on an interdisciplinary platform. (Contains 1 online resource.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
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