ERIC Number: EJ1045899
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Sep-20
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An Interdisciplinary Approach for Understanding Artworks: The Role of Music in Visual Arts Education
Pavlou, Victoria; Athansiou, Georgina
International Journal of Education & the Arts, v15 n11 Sep 2014
In a world that is becoming increasingly more visual, there is a greater need to educate children to better understand images. A school subject that deals directly with image understanding is visual arts. This article discusses an interdisciplinary approach to promote art understanding, within a multimodal environment that combines art and music. The approach was tested with pre-service elementary school teachers (experimental and control group). The target group is of special interest because, in many countries, generalist-teachers and not art-specialists teach art in elementary schools. The findings indicated that when art viewing was accompanied by musical stimulus (experimental group), viewers/listeners were able to exhibit a variety of art appreciation skills and to move to elaborated responses to the artworks. The findings have implications for teacher-training courses as they suggest ways of enhancing future teachers' art-appreciation skills and set a framework for developing multimodal educational material for art viewing activities.
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Arts, Art Education, Teaching Methods, Music Activities, Art Appreciation, Aesthetics, Responses, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Content Analysis, Classification, Preservice Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Cyprus
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