Material prepared for the Prairie Visions Consortium for Arts Education.

Prairie Visions Inquiry into Visual Arts- including the Moral Perspectives

   SELECTING
(Making choices)		  PERCEIVING
(Taking in)		  INTERPRETING
(Assigning meaning)		  EVALUATING
(Determining value)		  CONNECTING
(Synthesizing)
 CULTURAL/
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE		  What am I going to choose to study?  What does the form of this work say about its context?  What did it mean in its time and culture?  Why is this work important?  What connections can I make to other times, places and cultures?
 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE  Is this interesting to me?  What are the elements and content of the work?  How am I reacting to this and why?  How good do I think this is?  What connections can I make to other experiences?
 AESTHETIC PERSPECTIVE  Is this art?  What are the ways we can approach art?  How does art make meaning?  Is this good?  How does art relate to life?
 TECHNICAL AND CREATIVE PERSPECTIVE  What decisions am I making?  What am I creating?  What am I trying to say?  Does this work?  What connections can I make to my art and why?
 MORAL PERSPECTIVE
Access to Learning for All		  Do my choices provide access for all my students?  Am I providing multiple approaches to the arts for my students?  Do my lessons allow for multiple understandings through arts integration?  Do my lessons reflect my valuing a variety of arts experiences for my students?  Does my arts integration include all individual students in a learning community?
 MORAL PERSPECTIVE
Nurturing Pedagogy		  Do my choices provide my students with a safe learning environment?  Are my students experiencing success learning in and through the arts?  Do my teaching methods allow students to engage in rich understandings at a variety of levels?  Do I maintain appropriately high expectations for all students in my lessons?  Do my lessons model democratic processes?
 MORAL PERSPECTIVE
Stewardship of the Schools		  Do my choices allow students to feel ownership of their learning?  Is this learning experience going to make a difference in the way my students perceive the world?  Do my lessons encourage students to see a larger view of the world?  Do my lessons help my students find value in the arts and culture?  Do my lessons using arts integration confront real world issues?
 MORAL PERSPECTIVE
Enculturation of Youth in a Social and Political Democracy		  Do my choices allow students to participate in the democratic process?  Do my lessons help my students comprehend the balance between the individual and the community?  Do my lessons help students to develop informed interpretations?  Do my lessons help my students value the balance between the individual and the community?  Do my lessons help students understand democracy is not a natural form of human interaction and must be learned and practiced?

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