"Let's Draw": Art Education by Radio

“e-Draw: a Virtual Collaborative Environment for Visual Art

Visual art education is currently one of the worst regarded educational disciplines, it is given few resources and less time and attention in the different education levels. Reports, including Pisa, show that our education systems are lacking in many aspects and the responses to those reports often include a demand of a return "back to basics" in the curriculum, but what are "basics"? We are al...

Art 101: Learning to Draw through Sketch Recognition

iCanDraw is a drawing tool that can assist novice users to draw. The goal behind the system is to enable the users to perceive objects beyond what they know and improve their spatial cognitive skills. One of the early tasks in a beginner art class is to accurately reproduce an image, in an attempt to teach users to draw what they see, rather then what they know, improving spatial cognition skil...

Images, Art and Education

“Education with art”: diabetes education through theater

Materials and methods Longitudinal study, with the participation of 24 young people with diabetes type 1 (DM1) between 10-17 yrs. old. The acting classes are biweekly lasting, for 3 hrs., aiming to improve the expressions of feelings and at the same time the body language, as a way of working possible psychological barriers in the adherence to diabetes treatment. The program covers topics on di...

Art and Design Education in the UK

This paper seeks to identify the philosophical origins of the teaching of art and design and subsequently trace its incorporation into a teaching program in the UK. It briefly discusses the nature of its classical ‘drawing’ background and the conflicts in the debate as to what ‘design’ means. It then goes on to identify the cultural and political context which shaped the institutions, such as A...