| The art education program is studio based and offers a series of courses for exceptionally well-qualified undergraduate and graduate art students to accomplish art teacher certification, K-12. These courses are elected by students who wish to understand more about the nature of learning in art and by those who may intend to teach art in alternative and other non-school, community institutions. Students participate in, observations in art classrooms, teaching in the University of Iowa Saturday Art Workshops, in artist-in-residency programs in secondary schools and community based arts programs.
The program's premise is that teaching art provides an opportunity to purposefully blend artistic production - grounded in an aesthetic of artist as social agent - with the concept of the teacher as an artist.
Graduate programs in art education are a means for artist-teachers to advance their understanding of art, art education, and art history by considering the role of art making in learning and the creation of new knowledge. M.A. and Ph.D. students usually are preparing for teaching positions in colleges, universities, and museums or as art administrators. The School's art and art history pioneering concept of the artist/teacher, which provides the personal aesthetic experience necessary for research, is especially valuable for graduate students in art education. This breadth of preparation in art education, art history, and studio art qualifies doctoral graduates to teach in colleges and universities.
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