Searching for Meaning: Visual Culture from an Anthropological Perspective

Autor/in	Stokrocki, Mary
Titel	Searching for Meaning: Visual Culture from an Anthropological Perspective
Quelle	In: Art Education, 59 (2006) 1, S.46-52 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0004-3125
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Art Education; Childrens Art; Cultural Influences; Participant Observation; Culture; Anthropology; Research Methodology; Educational Research; Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Arizona; Brazil; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Kultur; Anthropologie; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Brasilien; Spanien
Abstract	In this article, the author discusses the importance of Viktor Lowenfeld's influence on her research, describes visual anthropology, gives examples of her research, and examines the implications of this type of research for teachers. The author regards Lowenfeld's (1952/1939) early work with children in Austria as a form of participant observation research. Participant observation is a process of describing, analyzing, and interpreting an everyday activity to understand it more fully. Lowenfeld intensely watched how children made art, listened to what they said, and asked questions. Similar to Lowenfeld, this author also elicits student views on their artwork. Teachers do this tacitly everyday to some degree and often times more methodically. Observed through the lens of his own education, largely based on psychology, Lowenfeld regarded his findings about children's artworks as "universal," not context-bound, and failed to understand the influence of culture on children's artworks. In contrast, when studying children's artworks today, this author attempts to search for meanings of different socio-cultural contexts through visual anthropology. (Contains 5 figures and 3 endnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10