WELCOME TO SPCS ART AND DESIGN

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

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Aesthetic aims

• to help students understand and use the language of aesthetics and to comprehend the nature and function of art forms within the context of their own work, within a historical context and within the context of their own environment and culture.

Perceptual aims

• to provide students with the particular perceptual skills needed to comprehend and respond to art and design forms and to the visual environment.

Technical aims

• to teach the necessary skills involved in the use and manipulation of materials and processes

Personal and social aims

• to improve the quality of students’ learning- their abilities to think, perceive, make decisions, work through problems, etc., and heighten and improve students’ personal perception of the world and their reactions and responses to it.

Objectives

• to enable students to become visually literate: to use and understand art as a form of visual and tactile communication and to have confidence and competence in reading and evaluating visual images and artefacts.

• to develop particular creative and technical skills so that ideas can be realized and artefacts produced.

• to develop students’ aesthetic sensibilities and enable them to make informed judgments about art.

• to develop students’ design capability.

• to develop students’ capacity for imaginative and original ideas and experimentation.

• to develop students’ capacity to learn about and observe the world around them.

• to develop students’ ability to articulate and communicate ideas, opinions and emotions about their own work and that of others.

• to develop students’ ability to value the contribution made by artists, craft workers and designers and to respond thoughtfully, critically and imaginatively to ideas, images and objects of many kinds and from many cultures.