Ontological Shifts in Studio Art Education: Emergent Pedagogical Models

Abstract

Just as the Beaux Arts movement, the Arts and Crafts movement, and the Bauhaus provided influential models for studio art education during the twentieth century, new pedagogical influences are providing models for the next century. These visions for future evolutions and revolutions within studio art education must accommodate current paradigm shifts in the art world as well as ontological shifts occasioned by the ascendancy of visual culture and the growing influence of new media technologies. Our age is experiencing a rupture with cultural history in a manner unimaginable to previous periods. The quantum social, technological, and cultural changes of the past two centuries have radically deconstructed and/or reconstructed the scale and scope of human life. These irrevocable changes hold great possibilities for progressive change, yet cause devastating results to some cultures, belief systems, and institutions.