The Philosophy of Art
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Hi all,
In this lesson we open up the conversation around differing perspectives on art. What is art? How come some people will send thousands of pounds on something classed as ‘art’ whilst others don’t even think it should be art.
This ethical discussion then opens up the conversation surrounding pornography and perspectives on this being an art form.
Remembers to set ground rules at the start of this lesson to ensure that everyone is respectful of other views.
Have fun,
Liz
Firstly, I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to the more than 1000 of you who have downloaded this display pack! I hope your classrooms look gorgeous!
This is a complete 200+ page pack of a number of classroom displays that I have developed over the last couple of years to invigorate my department. Two updated booster packs have already been added.
Original Display Pack:
- Philosophers and Religious Figures Timeline (Over 40 thinkers with pictures, dates and outlines of their thinking).
- Famous quote callouts to add along the timeline (one for almost every philosopher). Get students talking!
- Custom-made colourful lettering for timeline eras.
- Over 20 ethical and philosophical questions in colourful speech bubbles to inspire thinkers in your classroom (A great one for open-evenings or tutor time discussions!)
- Steps/Levels display with optional number arrows. Department levels policy documents included.
- ‘How to’ guides for all displays.
Booster Pack 1:
- Philosophical Language Literacy Display with sentence starters for knowledge/explanation and assessment/evaluation.
- Agree --> Disagree continuum signposts to make human bar charts in your classroom!
- Blooms thinking guidance for teachers with question prompts. Great for shrinking and sticking on desks or displaying at the back of the room.
Booster Pack 2:
- A raft of additional thinkers to give greater flexibility to the Philosopher Timeline across exam boards.
- Quotes for every new thinker of course!
I’ve also added another high-quality display pack covering Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Biases. Find it here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/logical-fallacies-and-cognitive-biases-display-pack-philosophy-psychology-11925635
This is a very simple plan which contains three different ideas for delivering online zoom lessons. Each activity should last 45 -60 minutes. It could be used with Google Hangouts or another online service but the break out room feature really allows for fun, engaging and motivating activities. The activity is best pitched for Year 3 (Grade 2) to Year 6 (Grade 5) year groups.
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are modes of persuasion used to convince audiences. They are also referred to as the three artistic proofs (Aristotle coined the terms), and are all represented by Greek words.
A highly engaging and interesting lesson that focuses on the art of persuasive language by using the terms above, incorporating ‘The Art of Rhetoric.’ - Aristotle.
Additionally, it addresses the various ways to appeal to an audience, using: ethos, pathos and logos.
Lesson pack contains:
A 27 page PowerPoint
A video link to make notes from
A variety of examples of: ethos, pathos and logos with visual aids
Dual coding ideas for each of the persuasive writing techniques
A plenary task.
A great way to introduce both psychology and philosophy into a creative English session
An introduction into philosophy, given to a KS4 class. One slide is a research task which the class did on school computers/iPads, but the lesson could be done without. The lesson includes many videos so non-specialist teachers can teach it.
Learning Objectives:
Define what philosophy is
Compare the different types of knowledge and reasoning
Debate philosophical questions
These excellent resources have bundled together to give you outstanding value. The over a range of social, moral, spiritual and cultural issues that relate to a number of subjects.
If you would like to know more then please click on each resource. They are aimed at the fully range of ability. You can cut them out and put them into an envelop for students to sort or you can get them to cut, sort and stick them into their books. Failing that they can create a key or use highlighters and stick the information into their books.
Whenever possible, I have linked in videos that are suitable for classroom use that cover both sides of the debate and can be previewed alongside our resources.
Everything is supplied in word and can be easily customized to suit your students .
Introducing the different areas of philosophy and explaining how they link to the 2014 AQA syllabus. Ends with an introduction to Epistemology "what is real?" card sort.
This is a complete unit of work introducing students to the Spirited Arts Competition run by NATRE each year. This resource includes enough content for 7 lessons (designed as 50 minute lessons but would easily fill 1 hour lessons).It was designed for Year 7 in my school, but would be suitable for any KS3 year. There’s a range of different resources and activities to keep students engaged and encourage independent learning.
MINIMAL PRINTING
It includes:
A tracker for the whole of my Y7 schemes of learning, featuring this as the third unit
Progress map for students to highlight after each assessment in the year
Common misconceptions and how to respond to feedback advice page
Why are we learning this? Page
Spirited Arts Introduction and planning sheet
Christianity + Art lesson (including 4-mark Q - explain - key skill test)
‘Explain two…’ 4-mark question making sticker templates (ready to print on consortium stickers - pack of 8 - 99mmx68mm)
Islam + Art lesson
End of Year assessment (that includes questions from my other 3 Y7 units of work that are uploaded on TES)
DIRT lesson
Spirited Arts Gallery lesson
End of Year Blooket lesson covering all 4 units Y7 will have covered
2 pieces of fully resourced homework (1 revision based for a End of Year Assessment, and 1 project based of their spirited arts work)
All learning objectives are based around ‘know, apply, extend’ and differentiation is present in the form of sentence starters, excellence challenges and model answers.
This is complete and ready to teach! Non-specialists have used it and followed it with ease.
Hopefully this will save you time and energy :)
Please leave a review!
This fun philosophy lesson focuses on aesthetics, art and the nature of beauty. Aestheticians ask questions like “What is a work of art?”, “What makes a work of art successful?”, “Why do we find certain things beautiful?”, “How can things of very different categories be considered equally beautiful?”, “Is there a connection between art and morality?”, “Can art be a vehicle of truth?”, “Are aesthetic judgments objective statements or purely subjective expressions of personal attitudes?”, “Can aesthetic judgments be improved or trained?”
This session is of particular interest to Art Teachers and teachers of subjects that have an aesthetic component (such as Design, Crafts, and Textiles); we’ve carefully selected the most significant philosophical issues wrestled with by aestheticians both ancient and modern so that young learners can engage in fun philosophical discussions and debates. This session explores topics such as:
The nature and value of art
Different ways of evaluating art
The nature of beauty and the degree to which it is “in the eye of the beholder”
Cultural and historical relativism in evaluating art and beauty
The impact of AI in the creation of art
The big question asked in this session is “Is beauty an objective fact or merely ‘in the eye of the beholder’?”. Using a variety of engaging activities students will discuss and debate a wide range of other philosophical questions such as:
What makes one object “art” and another object “not art”?
How should we measure the value of art?
Why do people create art?
What are the moral duties of an artist?
How can creating art benefit our community and society?
This resource is suitable for students aged 8-16; due to the flexible nature of the sessions design it can be used for multiple hour-long sessions or as a short stimulating tutor-group activity.
The file is a PowerPoint Show: no planning or preparation is required, just run the file and the intuitive menu system will make delivering a powerful philosophy session very easy!
This session uses our unique format for philosophy teaching resources and features an integrated menu that allows teachers to select from a variety of starter, main, plenary, assessment and end-of-lesson reflection activities. With a massive selection of activities designed to trigger philosophical discussions, debates and reflections: you can re-use the resource numerous times with the same group.
A comprehensive Art Department Teacher handbook covering vision, philosophy, health and safety, expectations of students, course descriptions and more. The handbook provides a fully editable resource which can be modified to suit all Art departments.
A range of revision worksheets that cover the Edexcel Catholic Christianity and Philosophy and Ethics sections of the Religious studies course. I use these for year 10 and 11 mock and GCSE Exam revision and independent study.
Included are:
Prayer, Creation, Pilgrimages, Visions,
Eschatology and Life after death
Forms of Expression
Religious Imagery and Symbols
Architecture and Design
Marriage and Divorce
Remarriage
Gender Prejudice and discrimination
The Design Argument
The Cosmological Argument
The Trinity
Evil and Suffering
Versatile resource for displays, information sheets for fact-finding tasks, prompts to introduce philosophy at KS4 and KS5, and for delivering an assembly or lecture introducing the subject or advertising it for A Level or post-16 study.
Includes all the most significant philosophers and philosophy movements. Very long. I use them as two with the double Birth of Modern Humanism as the end of one line and also the beginning of the second. Never failed to grasp attention as a very striking room display
Hi all,
Teaching META ETHICS for the first time here.
Here are my lessons on it. Each session contributes in my teaching about 2 hours each. So lessons could be cut down further if the the teacher needs too.
This unit was hard! But enjoyable in the end.
From my sample scheme of work using AQA Religious Expression. GCSE question has been tailored for OCR as pupils are due to start the Philosophy and Ethics course in January unless we change to AQA. This is a taster to see how they react to a more creative approach.
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6 worksheets with a famous artwork and relating analysis questions to complete. Used as part of a morning or lesson starter, or to support a lesson on analysing art or a movement. I’ve also laminated them as A3 to use as wipe-clean activities.
Artworks featured range from paintings to installation art and advertisements:
The Scream, Edvard Munch
The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali
Weeping Woman, Pablo Picasso
We Can Do It!, J. Howard Miller
Maman, Louise Bourgeois
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai
Designed for home / independent learning and aimed at children and young adults who are looking to further their knowledge in all things Ancient History and Science. Episodes are all under 10 minutes, packed full of information that is easy for children of all ages to understand. Typically taking around 30-45 mins to complete. Written and narrated by Cambridge University archaeologist Matthew Brooks.
Ancient Greek Philosophy. The philosophers of Ancient Greece were among the greatest thinkers to ever grace humanity. Ancient Greek philosophy and medical writing were extremely important on later thought, both in the West and in the East.
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The Ancient Greeks:
Episode 1 – Introduction to Ancient Greece
Episode 2 – The Olympic Games
Episode 3 – Government and Law
Episode 4 – Philosophy, the First Thinkers
Episode 5 – Literature and the Theatre
Episode 6 – Architecture and Art
Episode 7 – Greek Mythology
Episode 8 – Athens and Sparta
Episode 9 – The Olympian Gods
Episode 10 – The Lasting Legacy of the Greeks
This book is intended to help teachers who are preparing their students for AS-level or Higher Grade studies in philosophy of religion. The topics chosen are common to most syllabi.
Keywords
DESIGN ARGUMENT - INTELLIGENT DESIGN - CREATION & EVOLUTION - PROBLEM of EVIL - RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE - QUANTUM THEOLOGY
It could be used either as a taster course for GCSE students who may be considering philosophy of religion studies; or as an introductory course for AS-level students or as a ‘stand alone’ course with students undertaking a general RE course in Y10–Y13.
Four lesson plans including classroom activities, assignments, homework, and keys as well as:
Multiple choice quiz questions in an excel format
Glossary of keywords and concepts in an excel format
Open questions adaptable for debates, presentations, and essays
Recommended resources to provide you and your students with a comprehensive list of trustworthy references on the topic (includes all media types: videos, texts, primary resources, maps, podcasts, 3D models, etc.)
Tools to give your students such as tips to write a great essay
Tools to make your life easier, such as marking grids
All our education material is varied and built to develop middle and high-school students’ skills to succeed in social studies. You will also find several alternatives in the lesson plans to allow for differentiation and adaptation to your students’ level of ability.
This pack includes all of the following topics:
Greek Drama
Greek Architecture
Greek Philosophy
Greek Art
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