A Discourse Community of an Art Educator
A discourse community is a group of people who share a common interest and also have a particular language. According to, “The Concept of Discourse Community” by John Swales a professor of linguistic and codirector of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, sets specifics as to what a Discourse Community is. For example, it consists of six-defining characteristics, a community must have participation, communication, a specific genre of writing, a lexis, a common goal, and a level of expertise. With this I have found that an art educator can be a part of a successful discourse community because it is made up of two major fields of knowledge, visual arts and education. When indeed, a art educator …show more content…
The members and staff gather together because they want to achieve the advances of visual arts education to fulfill human potential. In addition, the NAEA supports visual arts educators to strengthen their teachings, career, and their individuality. The NAEA resources are wide and provide beneficial opportunities that are continuously given directly to the timely needs of art educators and their students. To become an active member of this discourse community you must fill out an application form and then choose a membership that suits you. And although it is required a small fee but it weighs out because of the benefits they provide. After, they have six ways as to turning in that form which are through fax, email, mail, telephone, online, and artsonia (fundraiser). In the end, a member of the community will make contact and communicate with the new members demonstrate the benefits of the community has to …show more content…
The mechanisms the members of this museum and art educators use to interact with its audience is through the question-answer process. That process means to identify the relations between what an artwork represents and the reality of the world. For example, the way the art educators would want to start this process is to ask a question, “What do you see?”(129) the purpose of this is to begin to allow the audience to dig deep within the contents of an artwork. Beyond the appearance and visuality, the act of interpreting requires a knowledge of its cultural background. For this reason, the language used between the art educators and its students in this community is essential because art educators share many ways to begin this critical
A discourse community is a group of people who share a common interest and also have a particular language. According to, “The Concept of Discourse Community” by John Swales a professor of linguistic and codirector of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, sets specifics as to what a Discourse Community is. For example, it consists of six-defining characteristics, a community must have participation, communication, a specific genre of writing, a lexis, a common goal, and a level of expertise. With this I have found that an art educator can be a part of a successful discourse community because it is made up of two major fields of knowledge, visual arts and education. When indeed, a art educator …show more content…
The members and staff gather together because they want to achieve the advances of visual arts education to fulfill human potential. In addition, the NAEA supports visual arts educators to strengthen their teachings, career, and their individuality. The NAEA resources are wide and provide beneficial opportunities that are continuously given directly to the timely needs of art educators and their students. To become an active member of this discourse community you must fill out an application form and then choose a membership that suits you. And although it is required a small fee but it weighs out because of the benefits they provide. After, they have six ways as to turning in that form which are through fax, email, mail, telephone, online, and artsonia (fundraiser). In the end, a member of the community will make contact and communicate with the new members demonstrate the benefits of the community has to …show more content…
The mechanisms the members of this museum and art educators use to interact with its audience is through the question-answer process. That process means to identify the relations between what an artwork represents and the reality of the world. For example, the way the art educators would want to start this process is to ask a question, “What do you see?”(129) the purpose of this is to begin to allow the audience to dig deep within the contents of an artwork. Beyond the appearance and visuality, the act of interpreting requires a knowledge of its cultural background. For this reason, the language used between the art educators and its students in this community is essential because art educators share many ways to begin this critical