Pop Culture Seminars_4@HKIEd

June 10, 2009 Wednesday

Hong Kong Institute of Education

Popular Culture and Education in Hong Kong

Series Seminars 4

1. A Study on Constructive students' learning experience through visual images of Project YiJin Students' Artwork

Purrie Ng, School of Continuing and Professional Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Traditional arts education in Hong Kong is largely teacher-centered and product-oriented. Recently, constructivism is one of the main learning approaches in visual arts education in Hong Kong. It is a theory that equates learning with creating meaning from experience. With the education reform implemented in the last decade, many community colleges have been established gradually for providing continuing education for F.5 school leavers. Among them, Project Yi Jin is one of the major groups. This paper will focus on the study of the constructive learning experiences of continuing education students – the case study of Project Yi-Jin students’ artwork through created visual images. The value of the study is twofold. Since limited research has been conducted in this area before, it is worthwhile to explore the values and characteristics of their artwork for future research. In general perspective, it can provide evidence for substantiating the theory of constructivism in visual arts education. I base my findings on Hall’s culture theory focusing on the elements of production, representation, identity in analysis. Through the study the paper will explore how the images are manipulated as a means of visual culture through description, analysis and reflection.

2. Chinese arts: Popular culture

Josephine Do, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Today we’re going to pursue the idea of artists transforming an aspect of popular culture or 'low' art into a work acceptable in the world of high art. We’re also going to look at the effect of Pop art on artistic efforts to break down the distinction between art and popular culture in recent times. We’ll be talking about the China art movement known as Political Pop.