Playing or Building and the art muse in between

Art Teachers Training at Agron School in Jerusalem

An electronic journal published by the College of Education at the David Yellin, Jerusalem
Issue No 1, January 2011

Abstract

This article presents a project of teachers training in the plastic arts under my supervision in Agron School in Jerusalem. A wall painting by the artist Avraham Ofek is placed at the school’s entrance. The painting portrays an epic of the society of the land of Israel that has educational import. Elements of the painting are used in this essay in presenting the teachers training project. Learning processes, methods, aims and intentions are presented paralleling the narrative represented by the painting on the wall of the school building. Avraham Ofek said: “Art is and will remain only one thing for me, the only key to understanding life” (Ofrat: 1987: 4). I use this same key, as presented to us by the artist, to open door after door and evaluate our activities in the school. The fundamentals of building and play are presenting in the article as the foundation of the project. This is concomitantly a linear process of building layer upon layer, with defined and applied aims, and a spontaneous process of free-flowing and dynamic experience. Integration of these processes creates the sensual learning experience of the students, as it also does for their pupils.

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