Year 9 - Art and design
What is social action?
Social action
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Unit Summary
Pupils will explore social action in a variety of forms, from collaborative practice to inndividual action and how art works can challenge ideas and influenece decisions. These lessons encourage critical thinking and self-expression, fostering creativity, empathy, and social awareness.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create social action stencil art to spark conversation.
Key Notes
- Social action is about coming together to improve lives and solve problems important to communities.
- Social action projects encourage discussion, conversation and heightened awareness.
- Artists select materials to communicate more clearly with their audience.
Vocabulary To Learn
- social action: when people work together to make their community or the world better
- conversation: an exchange of thoughts, ideas, or information between two or more people
- association: a connection we make in our minds between ideas or things, based on something they have in common
- stencil: a sheet of material with a design, shape, or letters cut out. Used to apply a pattern or image by painting, drawing, or spraying over the cut-out areas, leaving the design on the surface underneath.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Social action art must always make tangible improvements to an issue.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Social action is about coming together to improve lives and solve problems important to communities. Social action projects encourage discussion, conversation and heightened awareness.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'social action'
when people work together to make their community or the world better.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Social action art must always make tangible improvements to an issue. Correction: Social action art might make tangible improvements to an issue but might focus instead on sparking conversation or raising awareness.
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