Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes
The Museum of Modern Art · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Larissa Raphael, Francis Estrada, Lisa Mazzola
Arts and HumanitiesPersonal Development
About the course
The most resonant learning experiences happen when students can connect classroom content to the world around them. This course provides a methodology that uses accessible and relevant themes—rather than just dates and names—to organize learning about art. By adopting a thematic approach used by leaders in the field of museum education, you will learn to bridge the gap between modern and contemporary art and your students' lived experiences, making the classroom a space for creative big-picture
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“too general for audience who has already own some extent art knowledge”
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