Art History AD 201

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Across
  1. 1. This artist and teacher encouraged children to create original and expressive drawings instead of simply copying models.
  2. 4. This movement shifted classrooms away from rigid teacher-centered instruction and toward children's experiences, interests, creativity, and developmental needs.
  3. 8. This twentieth-century scholar described stages of children's artistic development and emphasized creativity, self-expression, and emotional growth.
  4. 10. This contemporary movement added the arts to STEM education, emphasizing creativity, design, and visual communication as part of problem-solving.
  5. 12. As digital technology changed art education, this skill became increasingly important for helping students interpret and critically analyze the images and visual messages around them.
  6. 13. During the Great Depression, this New Deal program supported artists and brought art into schools, libraries, and communities while expanding access to art education.
  7. 14. As industry expanded, this approach taught drawing mainly as a practical skill for manufacturing, emphasizing accuracy, geometry, and usefulness over creativity.
Down
  1. 2. This movement changed art education by encouraging teachers to study children's development and view their drawings as meaningful evidence of growth.
  2. 3. This educator promoted learning through experience, inquiry, and reflection, helping support hands-on and child-centered approaches to art education.
  3. 5. This British educator became Massachusetts' first state director of art education and helped establish a school specifically for training art teachers.
  4. 6. This 1870 law helped make drawing a required part of public education and also required teacher training, strengthening the place of art in schools.
  5. 7. This early American supporter believed drawing belonged alongside subjects like reading and mathematics because of its usefulness in science and engineering.
  6. 9. This psychologist influenced art education by arguing that children develop in natural stages and that education should match their developmental readiness.
  7. 11. This post-World War II law helped returning veterans attend colleges and universities, contributing to a larger number of trained art educators.
  8. 15. This 1980s approach strengthened art's academic status by organizing instruction around production, history, criticism, and aesthetics.