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Fine Art and Design in Education Zwolle part-time
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Do you want to become an art and design teacher? On the Fine Art and Design in Education part-time course in Zwolle, you will work on the same skills and course content as on the full-time bachelor, but with two instead of five teaching days per week. This calls for a high degree of independence. The total workload averages thirty hours per week.

As a part-time student, you can apply to DUO for an allowance to cover your study costs on a teacher training course. Internship days are arranged in mutual consultation through the internship agency.

Draw your own island, using the map of Grayson Perry as a guidance  | Photo by Marcel van Kan

What do you learn on the part-time Fine Art and Design in Education course at ArtEZ in Zwolle?

Curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, experimenting, collaborating, getting to know and understand yourself and the world around you better. Visual art and design are important throughout society. The Fine Art and Design in Education course in Zwolle produces teachers and visual artists with an affinity for people and the community in which they live.

The course is practice-based and varied. The academy where you will take your classes may be compared to a large laboratory where you can learn and discover a lot together with your fellow students and lecturers. Each academic year is divided into two semesters. At the end of each semester, there are reviews of your work and assessments.

In various subjects and internships, you will get to know the professional field, gain subject-teaching, educational and pedagogical knowledge and explore how to work as a teacher with different target groups within and outside mainstream education.

In addition to the focus on teaching, visual arts subjects also occupy an important place in all four years of the course. This is not just about craft skills, but above all about learning how to arrive at images and what the meaning of those images is. Linked to this are art theory subjects, because thinking and making go hand in hand on this course. By visiting museums, theatre, music and dance performances and by watching films, you will gain a broad insight into culture. You will reflect on these activities in your culture portfolio.

Within all of this there is room for your own growth as a person and as a professional. What do you want and what are you capable of, and what position do you want to occupy in professional practice?

 

Timetable

The teaching days and times are:

  • Monday 13.00 – 21.30
  • Thursday 13.00 – 21.30

Exceptionally, during assessment weeks, you may be expected to attend the course on another day. Internship days are arranged in mutual consultation.

Course structure

  • The first year is a broad introduction to the course and the professional field. This gives you the opportunity to find out whether this is the right course for you. Approximately half of the time, you will be working on your own artistic skills. You will also take subjects such as education, art and cultural history and philosophy. You will do a short exploratory internship at a secondary school.

    In the first year, you can also apply for the Honours Programme as a supplement to the theoretical programme of your own bachelor course. This programme falls outside the two teaching days.

  • In the second year, you will continue with visual art techniques and materials and with the subjects art history, cultural history and philosophy. In the second semester, you will do an internship at a secondary school for two days a week. You will teach, work on your pedagogical-didactic skills and develop new educational material. In this way, you will master the basic skills of teaching.

  • In the third year, you will do your second internship. You will choose the second internship yourself, so that you can immerse yourself more fully in your chosen direction. During the internships, you will address issues such as how to keep order, how to teach, how testing works and how we view a visual work of art. Plus questions such as what is inclusive education and how can you make room for different ways of thinking within the bounds of the education system?

    In addition, you will continue to work on your own artistic development throughout the third year. Theory and practice (thinking and making) are inextricably linked in this research.

  • The final year is all about developing your profile and going into more depth: you will fine-tune the knowledge and skills you are learning to match your talents and fascinations. You will create a collection of visual work and exhibit it to the professional field and to society during the ArtEZ finals. In addition to this artistic research, you will also conduct educational design research. This will involve making an educational product, for example a series of lessons, a game or material that can be used for art education in museums. You must be able to put forward good theoretical arguments for what you have designed. During a self-chosen internship, you will test your design in practice.

Facilities

The Fine Art and Design in Education part-time course is based in the elegant renovated Sophia building in Zwolle. The course has its own teaching and studio space. During opening hours, you can make free use of the facilities as a student. You can also use the course’s flex studios on Saturdays.

During the course, you can make use of various workshops:

  • Digital workshop for photography, video, animation, montage and general computer instruction. There are also professional printing machines in this workshop and paper is for sale;
  • Graphics workshop, mainly focused on analogue printing techniques such as screen printing, typesetting, etching, electrolytic etching, lithography, relief printing and semi-digital riso printing. You can also take short courses in bookbinding and typesetting here;
  • Spacious workshop where you can work with wood, metal, ceramics, plastics and other materials;
  • Theory workshop/library. Here you can consult analogue and digital theoretical collections and make use of silent study areas.

The workshops offer various short courses during which you can become acquainted with all kinds of materials, techniques and other possibilities.

Recharge yourself | photo by Marcel van Kan

Working for yourself?

Art teachers are increasingly combining jobs in education with their own businesses. In order to prepare you for this, we offer you a short course focused on entrepreneurship.

Studying in Zwolle

You can find more information about studying in Zwolle here.