PLACE

The Art Classroom as Place
Students should feel safe, secure and happy wherever they are working but the art room has special considerations for health and safety. There is all sorts of equipment in the art classroom such as pottery equipment (kilns) photography equipment etc. To have an art classroom that is ideal, it is important to ensure that everything is well organised and safe.
An interesting website is Hazards in the Art Classroom by Allison Jerard at:
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/teach/art_hazards.html
Worth a read!

the following paper can be found at:http://www.aare.edu.au/05pap/abs05.htm#E
AARE Conference Paper Abstracts - 2005ISSN 1324-9339
The space and place of art education
Jennifer Leigh Elsden-Clifton, RMIT
Within poststructuralist theory, the politics of the geographical location of objects and spaces has been bought to the fore by theorist such as Grosz (1995b) and Probyn (1996). This paradigm has argued arrangement of buildings and the structural distribution of classrooms reveal insights into the power hierarchies in schools (Coverston, 2001). In this paper I will adopt this paradigm to explore the politics of location in relation to art education. To do so I will focus on the comments made by art teachers in my research using the following enquiries: how did the teachers refer to their art classroom? How did the positioning of the art classroom respond to the power hierarchies in the schools? How did the teachers conceptualise the space within the art classroom? How did teachers shape this space? How did other teachers and school bodies perceive the space within the art classroom? In this paper I will explore these questions and argue that the location of art and the space within art classroom impacts on the hierarchal position of art within the broader educational context.
Keywords: Arts