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Is Choice Always Choice?

2/15/2016

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Choice is a unifying term when we discuss the spectrum of art ed that runs from DBAE to TAB. Almost all teachers offer choice, right? 
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To answer this question we have to think in the context of Choice versus choice. Choice, with a captial C, is a pedigological strategy that TAB teachers use to teach artistic thinking. It relies on allowing the student to make decisions that are meaningfully impactful on the art being 
created - content of work, theme, materials, style, when it's finished and what's next are examples of this. 
​On the other hand is choice, with a little c. This type of choice is present in all classrooms but is not used intentionally to teach creativity. It can be used to allow learners to make big decisions but often it's not, instead it provides superficial choice, like what color to paint the background or where to draw the groundline. These little choices don't add up to Choice and are inherently different. When you really get down to it, are the two images I've included with this writing all that dissimilar? 
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Screenshot of a Google search for "Birch tree art lesson".
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2/21/2016 10:40:17 am

Thank you for the post - an insightful distinction. And your Birch tree screenshot is classic. It is what I have come to expect (and wage war against) as student responses to a particular project: "so, I was looking on Pinterest and found this..." . They have so much to say when they rely on their own stories (and "Choice").

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4/2/2016 02:56:13 am

It is nice research on the word choice.It is helpful for everyone to use this blog and to understand the choice.

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