Viewfinding: Perspectives on New Media Curriculum in the Arts

This is a collection of essays on the arts, new media, popular culture, and technologies as they influence practices of curriculum development and teaching.The authors � artists, educators, scholars, and researchers with both scholarly and practical expertise � share their teaching practices and curriculum knowledge, and reflect upon challenging issues in contemporary art, popular culture, new media, and technology. Each chapter proposes pedagogical structures and curriculum resources that can be adapted to diverse school contexts and technical resources. The perspectives gathered in this book reflect ideas drawn from several disciplines, including contemporary art, histories of the arts, culture and technology, cultural studies, and media studies, as well as various approaches to the study of technologies; authors also incorporate a range of educational theories and instructional practices, mainly from the visual and performing arts. At times explicit and at others implicit, these wide-ranging conceptual influences inform the varied curriculum and teaching practices described here. Together, these essays and their companion DVD, which illustrates many of these diverse perspectives, provide a comprehensive and thoughtful look at arts-based approaches to new media. Additional ISBNs 9781433108495, 1433108496Viewfinding: Perspectives on New Media Curriculum in the Arts 1st Edition and published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBNs for Viewfinding are 9781453900314, 1453900314 and the print ISBNs are 9781433108501, 143310850X. Additional ISBNs include 1433108496, 9781433108495.