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Empowering Students Through Visual Arts Education Reform

Learn about the major changes in the NSS Visual Arts Curriculum & Assessment Framework and its implementation, emphasizing art appreciation, making, and contextual study to enrich students’ aesthetics, skills, and cultural understanding. The curriculum offers diverse learning opportunities in art making, criticism, and formal knowledge with emphasis on values and attitudes. Assessment includes school-based evaluation and a public examination.

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Empowering Students Through Visual Arts Education Reform

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  1. NSS Visual Arts Curriculum and Assessment and Its Implementation

  2. Major Changes to the Curriculum • It adopts an open and flexible curriculum framework, replacing examination-oriented teaching syllabuses; • It emphasises both art appreciation and criticism and art making; • It puts more emphasis on studying the contextual character of the visual arts; and • It emphasises the further development of the mind to which the visual arts can contribute.

  3. Aims It aims to enable students: • enrich their aesthetics and arts experience; • strengthen their abilities to appreciate and create various forms of visual arts work aesthetically and critically; • develop perceptual abilities, generic skills and meta-cognition through autonomous and open-ended processes of inquiry in visual arts learning; • enhance multiple perspectives, and cultural and cross cultural understanding through exploration of the visual arts of diverse cultures; • cultivate personal refinement, values and attitudes, self-identity and a sense of commitment towards the community, the nation and the world; and • acquire a foundation for pursuing educational and career opportunities in the visual arts and creative industries.

  4. Curriculum Framework Students learn through a balanced programme of study consisting of two intertwined and interrelated strands: visual arts appreciation & criticism in contextand visual arts making

  5. Curriculum Framework Learning Strands: • visual arts appreciation & criticism in context • visual arts making Selection of Learning Opportunities: Scope of Learning • Visual arts of at least two different cultural contexts: Chinese, Western, local, etc. • Visual Arts of different media

  6. Curriculum Framework Selection of Learning Opportunities: Knowledge: • formal knowledge • knowledge in context Skills: • for art appreciation & criticism and art making • verbal presentation of art appreciation & criticism Experiences: • general, aesthetic and artistic experiences Values and attitude

  7. Assessment School-based Assessment (50%) One portfolio consisting of : PublicExamination (4 hours) (50%)

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