Art Schools and the Drama: A Design for Learning

Abstract

Teachers in many college art departments offering practical training find themselves faced with trends that they view with concern. Sometimes these may be strong enough to show in a falling off of the volume of students. More often, a growing general dissatisfaction may be discovered that manifests itself in a number of ways: a lessening of active interest, resulting in lowered standards; over-specialization in a peripheral field, as a form of protest against an unsatisfying general school program; or the development of affectations that show the students as social misfits and that arouse suspicion elsewhere as to the purpose of art education or training.