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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Sweeny, Robert W. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2013
This article identifies possibilities for data visualization as art educational research practice. The author presents an analysis of the relationship between works of art and digital visual culture, employing aspects of network analysis drawn from the work of Barabási, Newman, and Watts (2006) and Castells (1994). Describing complex network…
Descriptors: Data, Visual Aids, Art Education, Educational Research
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Sweeny, Robert W. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2010
Videogames represent one of the fastest growing and most influential forms of contemporary visual culture. In this article, the author looks to five aspects of current videogames: perspective, interactivity, interface, narrative, and time and movement. Each of these videogame modalities is analyzed as related to a wide range of popular media,…
Descriptors: Video Games, Art Education, Art Products, Spatial Ability
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Sweeny, Robert W. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2008
Many challenges currently face art educators who aim to address aspects of popular visual culture in the art classroom. This article analyzes the relationship between performance art and the MTV program "Jackass," one example of problematic popular visual culture. Issues of gender representation and violence within the context of Reality TV and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Popular Culture, Violence, Gender Issues
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Darts, David; Tavin, Kevin; Sweeny, Robert W.; Derby, John – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2008
This study examines visual dimensions and pedagogical repercussions of the war of terror. Iconographies of threat and prophylaxis are explored through a discussion of the actuarial gaze and the terr(or)itorialization of the visual field. Specific visual culture fallout from the war of terror is examined, including artistic responses and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Terrorism, War, Artists
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Sweeny, Robert W. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2006
Current discussions regarding the notion of visual culture in art educational practice center the actions of the viewer as participant within the networks of visuality common in many contemporary societies. Surveillance technologies and techniques shift this notion of participation from active to passive, from seeing to being seen. This article…
Descriptors: Art Education, Culture, Visual Environment, Social Control
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Sweeny, Robert W. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2004
Contemporary societies are in the process of developing digital technological networks that simultaneously result in their transformation. The operations of networked computer systems, based in forms of simulation, have shifted general notions of visuality within a visual culture. Practices in art education that address these contemporary…
Descriptors: Simulation, Art Education, Internet, Technology Integration