One listening to Li Jen can’t help but notices the variety of roles he plays as he guides his students through their coursework on a day-to-day basis. In fact, the dexterous changing of roles, and an awareness of the need to do so, as a response to the faceted nature of an A Level Art coursework goes a long way to determining its outcome. So far, there is not yet another A Level subject component that deals with thinking, emotions and the material world we live in more explicitly than the A Level Art coursework. All this points to the necessary pre-service training Art teachers must go through before they are ready to take on the pedagogical beacon to lead their students through the treacherous/textured but preciously developmental terrain of the Art coursework. This pre-service training is very different from one received by an artist.
One listening to Li Jen can’t help but notices the variety of roles he plays as he guides his students through their coursework on a day-to-day basis. In fact, the dexterous changing of roles, and an awareness of the need to do so, as a response to the faceted nature of an A Level Art coursework goes a long way to determining its outcome. So far, there is not yet another A Level subject component that deals with thinking, emotions and the material world we live in more explicitly than the A Level Art coursework. All this points to the necessary pre-service training Art teachers must go through before they are ready to take on the pedagogical beacon to lead their students through the treacherous/textured but preciously developmental terrain of the Art coursework. This pre-service training is very different from one received by an artist.