1. Do we impose on Nature or reconcile with Nature? Tanya de Paor 2010

2. COURSE CONTENT The Course: Graduate Diploma in Primary Education.

3. Visual Art Modules The Revised Primary Schools Curriculum for Visual Arts Education Strands and Strand Units

4. EXPERIENCES KNOWLEDGE The students

5. Confidence Creativity Awareness Understanding

6. PRACTICE Pedagogy

7. EXCHANGE OF IDEAS PEER CRITIQUE Concepts in art, design and media

8. The project: A personal interpretation of the outline theme – Art and the Environment

9. What were we asking of the students? To look at their environment? To use Media and Processes to investigate and question their own perceptions of the theme To bring to bear their own personal interpretations of the theme

11. Student pencil drawing exploring organic forms inspired by Gaudi

12. Exploring positive and negative spaces and organic spaces inspired by the architecture of Gaudi

13. Student work looking at geometric grid cut-outs inspired by Carlos Scarpa

14. CHALLENGES CHANGES Embedding concepts of sustainable Education into Undergraduate and Postgraduate course outlines

15. TANYA DE PAOR