Models of critical discourse and classroom instruction: A critical examination

From: Studies in Art Education | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Models of art criticism in the educational literature are, by and large, models of critical discourse. Typically, they prescribe a series of activities such as describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating, activities that are linked to the performance of different types of statements. The widespread acceptance of such models raises a number of questions which have yet to be addressed in the literature: What are critical statements? How are they individuated from one another? How well do such models mirror actual critical discourse? And how are they to be translated into classroom ...

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