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SECAC
Policy for Visual Arts Education
Adopted at the 1995 SECAC Conference in Washington, DC, and amended
at the annual meeting in Jacksonville, FL in October 2004.
MISSION
STATEMENT
The Southeastern College Art Conference endorses the following goals
and responsibilities in support of visual arts education by those
in all levels of education and settings within the visual arts:
1. Promote excellence and equity in comprehensive
visual arts education for all people, beginning with PreK-16 education,
leading to career opportunities as well as life-long learning in
schools, colleges, universities, museums, and cultural and community
organizations.
2. Actively encourage research in life-long art-based
learning, and support the development of local, state, and national
research-based policies that promote achievement through the visual
arts.
3. Establish standards and encourage professional
recognition for scholarship, creative activity, teaching, and service
that improves teaching and learning in and through visual arts at
all levels and settings.
POLICY POSITIONS
1a. Provide rigorous academic programs of excellence in
the visual arts by considering and incorporating national standards
of excellence for comprehensive art education as provided by professional
organizations such as the American Association of Museums, College
Art Association, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education, International
Council of Fine Arts Deans, National Art Education Association,
National Association of Schools of Art and Design, National Council
for Accreditation of Teacher Education; by incorporating contemporary,
historical, and other relevant issues in art; and by collaborating
with public and private local, state, and national organizations.
1b. Support admissions criteria to institutional
programs at the college and university level that meet standards
of excellence and provide access to all people.
1c. Encourage broad audience development through
the visual arts by comprehensive programs that incorporate contemporary
and relevant issues in art, and by active collaboration between
public and private organizations including community-based resources,
museums, corporations, government agencies, and PreK-16 schools.
2a. Strive for more collaborative policy involvement
and initiatives between/among higher education institutions, recognizing
that research in art education is a vital link between the visual
arts, humanities, social/natural sciences, and mathematics.
2b. Engage in research/evaluation/development projects
with local schools to establish best practices in curriculum and
pedagogy and in local settings.
2c. Support developing art specific assessment
means for students PreK-16 and build upon knowledge gained from
the 1997 National Assessment of Educational Progress Visual Arts
Report Card.
2d. Develop public policy initiatives that support
visual arts in the Pre K-16 curriculum by encouraging collaborations
with state, local, and national organizations.
3a. Establish appropriate guidelines defining retention,
tenure, promotion, and salary increases for art education faculty.
3b. Assist in the development of assessment and
evaluation procedures for art education programs at all levels.
3c. Encourage best practice in curriculum and pedagogical
training for PreK-12 teachers, be adapted at other levels of instruction
in the arts.
3d. Foster faculty commitments to community outreach
and policy planning for art education throughout the community.
3e. Recommend qualified, certified art teachers
at early childhood, elementary, and secondary levels, and actively
assist in teacher preparation and professional development.
POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
1. Faculty should define and develop standards that reflect
the value of art education and assign responsibilities and rewards
for policy-related activities in all recognized local, state, regional,
and national organizations.
a) Foster greater participation by higher education
faculty in leadership positions through rewards for service, recognition
of art education as contributing to improving curriculum and pedagogy
at the college and university level, and greater integration with
studio disciplines and art history.
b) Consider college/university art galleries for
contributions to the development of outreach activities.
2. Art Education faculty should engage in defining public
policy, and when appropriate, administrators should recognize and
support adjustments in work assignments.
3. Partnerships should be cultivated outside the
visual arts.
POLICY DISSEMINATION
1. Develop a statement to be disseminated to institutions
of higher education that explains the importance of faculty involvement
in policy making at the local, state, regional, and national levels
regarding visual art education.
2. Publish/link to noteworthy policy articulations
on SECAC's website.
3. Develop electronic means to share library resources and image
databases at SECAC member institutions with public school students
either on-site or electronically.
4. Seek endorsement and distribution of the 2003
SECAC Visual Arts Education Policy Statement by local, state, regional,
and national PreK-16 institutions and associations.SECAC Art Education
Committee Members:
Thomas M. Brewer, Chair
Associate Professor
University of Central Florida
Richard Siegesmund
Assistant Professor
University of Georgia
Robert Mode, Professor
Department of Art
Vanderbilt University
Read M. Diket
Director of Honors Program
William Carey College
Charles Bleick, Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Art Education
Virginia Commonwealth University
Cynthia Colbert, Professor
Department of Art
University of South Carolina
Susan Slavik
Assistant Professor
Coastal Carolina University
Mary Lou Hightower
Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina Spartanburg
UCF Graduate Participants:
Melanie J. Goodman-Smith
Clinton W. McCracken
Ami Patel
Jay C. Triplett
Endorsed by the Florida Higher Education Arts Network, January
2004.
Pinellas County Public Schools, Largo, FL, November 2005.
Brevard County School District, Viera, FL, December 2005.
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