Fall (a) 2012
Capstone Project
Dr. Elizabeth Delacruz Committee Chair
Dr. Craig Roland Committee Co-Chair
Dr. Craig Roland Committee Co-Chair
Art with Purpose: Promoting Compassion in the Art Classroom
The purpose of this study was to attempt to instill compassion in students through the artmaking process. The ultimate goals were to inform students of their possibilities of social reform, educate them with opportunities to be compassionate, and inspire maturity of selfless behaviors through intrinsic motivation and artmaking. The big idea was to foster compassionate and caring behaviors by creating opportunities for students to demonstrate such actions. Using Participatory Action Research, a project was developed and executed, called “Altered Puzzles,” promoting social awareness of autism. The endeavor implemented compassion-based artmaking lessons using hidden and experiential instruction, modeling behaviors, and differentiating instruction. The findings resulted in a successful development of communication, understanding, and defining of compassion in action. Compassion, caring, empathy, kindness were all defined while completing this study. Compassion through artmaking is just one of many tools possible to generate social reform, improve character development, and foster tolerance in high school aged students.
Video of Project
Click on the link to go to the video made by the broadcasting class at my school.
THANK YOU WFHS BROADCASTING and JC Rooney for all of your hard work!
THANK YOU WFHS BROADCASTING and JC Rooney for all of your hard work!
Additional resources can be found on my Pinterest board-Compassion Thru Art
Sleepytime Resources
To review my final capstone paper (or to help your insomnia) click on the link above.
