Art as experience: Arts integration in the science curriculum

CHED 1553

JoElla Eaglin Siuda, MsSiuda@comcast.net, Dep't of General Education, The Illinois Institute of Art @ Chicago, 350 North Orleans, Chicago, IL 60504
Theories by leaders in Arts integration such as Dewey, Greene, & Eisner are put into practice in our classrooms as we develop creative leaders in the commercial Arts. Harnessing student creativity & engaging in particular methodologies & assessments, we support iconistic learning & multimodal literacy, which is underrepresented in education. Much literature abounds in cognition, & cognitive studies, to suggest that higher order thinking is enhanced, systemization & order flourishes in this mode. In addition, aid in conceptualizing movement between concrete & abstract thinking, & stages of model development, has been viewed, highly interesting to those in research of science teaching. Also, as we approach a ‘global village', we need to render our students prepared and ready for the admittance into their future as discussed in the 2007 AAACS convention, The Internationalization of U.S. Curriculum Studies, and in recent works of LeFever's, Aesthetics & the Internationalization of U.S. Curriculum Studies.
 

Using the Arts to Teach Chemistry
1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- HEC A, Oral

Sci-Mix
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday, April 7, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Hall A, Sci-Mix

Division of Chemical Education

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008