佐藤 賢司

A Japanese modern classification system of art in art education is confronted with a crisis of fell down. From a educational point of view, we need a new general idea of educational art, that have more close relation between work of art and our actual life. If we will create the new general idea of`kogei', that is not based on the meaning of thing or object but the meaning of situation or occurrence, that will be a more important subject when the accepted todays art education changes to more organic form.

Art education, specifically in the level of teacher education is facing numerous problems in the present condition today. When people think of art education, they think of it with two separate aspects, art and education, and this is the major problem to be overcomed. As long as the art education is considered by those two aspects, the art education is poor and unable to obtain the remarkable outcome. The systematic and subject-centered styled art education is no longer having the ability to correspond with the present problems. At this very moment, an education should be organically connected with the art. And there is a high necessity to incorporate "art" experience by the students with the curriculum that is in close relationship with the problem. This article introduces a practice, which provides an opportunity to the students to consider of art activity in a close relationship with human livings, the "art" experience, linked to the above mentioned problem.