I went to a seminar about Arts Education today. It was an disappointed one as usual. Of course, I cannot help to share my disagreement with the point of view of the speaker. He put up a clip from the movie, " Philadelphia" and asked us/students to describe the relationships of the visual elements and its symbolic meanings. However, is that it? What's the aims of Senior ( S4-S6 ) Arts Education for the coming years? To idenify or describe the visual elements of a film? Afterall, it is all about art appreciation?
To teach Arts is not an easy tasks. However, many people or even many arts teachers highly underestimate the value and mission of Arts Education. For me, Arts can either be a tools to express feeling and concepts about anythings that worths it's calling, or Arts is a channel for humanity to prose a bigger questions about life and beliefs.
As I looked across the room, at least 80% of the teachers are neither over 40s or complaining the ridical changes of the Educational reform, so why would they still sitting in this room? What's the future of arts education then?
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