"Course Description: A true education does not necessarily occur within the structured setting of a classroom, in fifty-minute segments over the course of a semester.  Learning is about people—and lives are often transformed as the process of “understanding” evolves over time.  Whenever we speak of education, we are speaking of a person’s experience in the world (Grumet, 1975).  In this class, art students in the process of becoming teachers search to find insight into the basic philosophical understanding of what may be termed an educational experience: who they are, what they do, and how they define themselves in the context of the teaching situation.  Using this philosophical underpinning, students will investigate methods and materials appropriate to standards-based art education.  Current practices in the instruction of studio art, art history, aesthetics, and criticism will be explored and applied through class activities and field experiences."