One Art Teacher's Journey Toward Curriculum Review and Revision

This qualitative research study focused on the process of curriculum review and revision in an independent Christian school. The author, who developed the current visual arts curriculum for secondary students, identified methods to evaluate the current visual arts curriculum. Considerations that directly impacted the study were school culture, teacher isolation, accreditation, and curriculum transference. Curriculum inquiry was conducted using methods developed by Sullivan (2009), "Art Practice as Research", Schubert (1987), "Curriculum: Perspective, Paradigm, and Possibilities", and Irwin (2004), "A/r/tography". The existing curriculum document was evaluated based upon Bloom's Taxonomy and the Eight Studio Habits of the Mind developed by Hetland, Winner, Veenema, and Sheridan (2007) in their book "Studio Thinking". The research revealed findings that will inform future curriculum decisions.

Author

• Dayhoff, Deborah Lynn

Language

• en

Keyword

• accreditation
• curriculum theory
• curriculum transference
• curriculum development
• high school
• hidden curriculum
• Studio Thinking
• Schubert
• Christian education
• SACS
• private school
• NAEA
• arts-based research
• upper school
• middle school
• visual art
• Hetland

Date created

• 2011

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Art Education

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Lawton, Pamela H
• Ambush, Debra J

Committee Member(s)

• Storr, Annie F

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/vt150j40k