Improving the core literacy of students is a hot topic in the field of education at present, a sign that curriculum reform has entered a new era, and the direction and soul of future basic education curriculum reform. The proposal of this topic is in line with the direction of curriculum reform. This project takes the curriculum as the starting point and adopts the "project-based" inquiry-based learning method, focusing on cultivating students' sense of innovation and comprehensive application ability, and ultimately achieving the purpose of improving the core literacy of students' art disciplines.
The background and significance of the research project
On the basis of the club and the existing school curriculum (paper rattan, face sculpture), the school continues the traditional production method, using the old clothes and other materials donated by teachers and students of the whole school to reproduce the beauty of the clothes from the aspects of texture, shape, color, pattern, etc., so that the old clothes have a new meaning and role. This project not only enables students to understand traditional handicrafts such as cutting, sewing, and weaving, but also helps students to establish the concept of saving and environmental protection.
The rebirth of old clothes is supported by many countries as an environmental protection project. China's relevant departments for health reasons to prohibit the sale of old clothes again, a large number of old clothes hidden in the closet or thrown into the garbage heap decomposed into raw materials, not fully recycled. This course is in line with the physiological and psychological characteristics of junior high school students, just in adolescence students have a certain sensitivity to the texture, shape, color, pattern of clothing, with second-hand clothing as the material, so that old clothes "rebirth", is conducive to stimulating students' enthusiasm for creating beauty and thinking about beauty.
Donation of old clothes for teachers and students throughout the school
Each research group takes old clothes as the object of inquiry and sets up different sub-topics to cultivate students' ability to actively explore, discover, analyze and solve problems in real situations. Taking the material, texture, pattern and color of the old clothes as the starting point for exploration, we will explore the ideas and creative methods of the innovative use of the old clothes, so that students can exert their creativity.
The old clothes for the renovation of the project come from the donations of teachers and students of the school, and the innovative and usable works of the students give back to the society through various channels. The reuse and rethinking of innovative products for old clothes not only arouses the public's attention to environmental protection, but also awakens people's pursuit of beauty and desire for good design, thereby further improving the aesthetic ability of the public.
The town attached middle school "cuckoo" workshop into the community
This "project-based" inquiry-based learning method helps students to conduct comprehensive learning through the way of "theme-reference-inquiry-creative expression". In the process of analyzing situations, asking questions, solving problems, and communicating results, students develop various abilities such as thinking and innovation. At the same time, it also changes students' inherent views on old clothes, prompting students to take the initiative to tap and explore the potential of these waste products, and truly understand the cultural concept, environmental awareness and fashion charm contained in the "innovative use of old clothes".
Research content
1 Rational thinking on the innovative use of old clothes
The innovative use of used clothes refers to the extraction of valuable design elements in discarded clothing, such as buttons, decorative cards, fabrics, pants loops, pocket decorations, etc., and redesigns them from the aspects of shape, color, pattern, and craftsmanship. The whole process helps students to cultivate core artistic qualities such as aesthetic judgment and sense of innovation. Innovative and practical works of old clothes can be derived from corresponding cultural and creative products for different groups of people, giving new connotations and values to old clothes, and responding to the concept of green and low-carbon environmental protection.
2 types of used clothes for innovative utilization
Teachers lead students to choose topics. The group cooperates to design a theme scene (youth party, birthday party, fantasy forest, etc.), starting from the familiar daily life of eating, wearing, living, using, traveling, etc., to explore the students' interest points; you can also collect waste materials such as old clothes around you for innovative design; you can also combine local resources and cultural characteristics, and learn from the creative techniques of artists and designers from various countries to explore creation. The types of innovative use of used clothes can be roughly divided into three types: practical, decorative and device-
(1) Practical type - the transformation of chairs and sofas
Teacher-student works
(2) Decorative type - combined with painting
Students are free to group into groups and determine learning tasks, some groups choose to borrow the works of artists or designers, and some groups combine local resources and cultural characteristics to create. The student's ink landscape sketch "Nanshan in Hometown" draws on the Song Dynasty painter Mi Youren's "Yunshan Ink Drama Map", and skillfully uses the color and texture characteristics of denim to express the water-colored and empty Nanshan. Some works use the outline of the mountain to dot out, and some use different color blocks to express it. In the process of drawing on Van Gogh's work "Starry Moon Night", the students used cloth to express Van Gogh's swirling brushstrokes, curled cypress trees, and quiet villages, and jointly explored the mystery of the starry sky. Some groups extracted decorative plaques, pants loops, pockets, labels and other elements from discarded clothing to create the work "City", various labels constitute high-rise buildings and buildings in the city, pants loops are transformed into bridges, bricks, wool is used to represent trees, pants loops, pockets as the sky, and then use some cloth as water surface, boats...
Nanshan in my hometown student works
Tribute to Van Gogh - Starry Moon Night Student Works
City Student Works
(3) Installation type - combined with literature, stories, and scenes
The theme of creation is situational, combined with literature, stories, scenes, etc., to express the creator's creative ideas and emotions.
Decorative works are displayed indoors
Fantasy Forest Scene Themed Scene Works
The student group cooperates to collect and sort out relevant materials and information, discuss and complete the theme scene design scheme for the innovative use of old clothes. Teachers guide students through works created on artist themes, such as a secret garden built by British artist Ian Berry from old denim at the Children's Art Museum in New York.
Student Exchange Discussion: What were your thoughts when you saw this secret garden? What did the artist make in the garden out of old denim? Explore the design process in groups. After completing the theme scene design plan, students complete the creation according to the content of the plate, for example, in the student's theme work "Fantasy Forest Scene", there are flower pot ornaments such as green plants, fairy balls, aloe vera and other flower pots transformed from old clothes, as well as flamingos walking in the living room and birds resting under the vines. At a glance, it is full of life.
Fantasy Forest Scene (Partial)
3 Process studies
(1) Yarn drawing method
Students explore old clothing materials such as denim and wool from the texture, choose the method of yarn drawing, and use the combination of dots and threads to create works such as carpets and semi-relief wall hangings. Students also start by changing the texture of the cloth to create personalized ornaments that are as light as feathers.
Carpet denim draw pieces
Coral Garden Yarn Drawing Works
Personalized accessories
(2) Sewing and embroidery method
In the process of project research, some groups are particularly interested in traditional handicraft skills (cutting, sewing, embroidery, etc.), they study the traditional stitching methods such as quilting needles and locking needles in China, and also draw on the traditional Japanese embroidery sewing method to design and produce practical products such as tea coasters on this basis. Through the stitching process, students' hands-on ability is improved.
Tea coaster Sewing and embroidery works
(3) Patchwork method
The patchwork method is the process of stitching together small pieces of fabric of a certain shape. In the process of using a variety of textures of old clothes to stitch together, students can exert their endless imagination and combine different materials of fabrics to produce texture-rich patchwork works. Some groups also produce practical finished products, such as table flags and throw pillows. Under the guidance of the teacher, the students used the patchwork method to combine comprehensive materials such as waste foam, and also produced three-dimensional birds, hares and other small animals.
Table flags patchwork works
Hare patchwork
(4) Methods of weaving, sizing, deconstructing and reconstructing fabrics
On the existing fabric of old clothes, the use of superposition (rolling, stacking, weaving), deformation (sizing), deconstruction (cutting and recombining the parts of clothes or pants) and other methods to make the cloth surface produce three-dimensional effects such as folds. Open students' inherent thinking about old clothes and fabrics, so that students can actively tap and explore the potential of these waste products.
Methods of superposition, weaving, sizing, deconstruction
rethink
Each type of old clothes reflects the aesthetic trend of an era, and the redesign of old clothes is a means of connecting the past, the present and the future. The problem of the rebirth of old clothes is born of emotion, and eventually returns to life with emotion. The reuse and rethinking of innovative products of old clothes is an extension and expansion outside the classroom, forming a cycle of "life-teaching-life", so that teaching and life are organically combined, so that students can use the knowledge they have learned to serve life, respond to environmental protection in an artistic way, and create the future with design.
This article is excerpted from Chinese Primary and Secondary School Art, No. 8, 2021
"Research on the Innovative Utilization of "Topic-type" Used Clothes—— Research Report on the 13th Self-financing Topic of Teaching and Scientific Research in Jiangsu Province
Chinese Primary and Secondary School Art, No. 8, 2021