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Health and safety issues not usually associated with arts education may be important when the learning involves fieldwork. Out-of-school fieldwork can provide an exciting and authentic dimension to students’ learning experiences. Teachers must preview and plan these activities carefully to protect students’ health and safety.
ETHICS IN THE ARTS PROGRAM
The arts provide students with real-life situations that require them to develop an under- standing of ethical issues, such as intellectual ownership and use of copyright material. In a technological world in which it is very easy to copy and use various kinds of materials, students must become aware of the ethical issues concerning, for example, reproducing visual images, copying aspects of someone else’s style, and incorporating soundtracks in their own works. Distinctions must be made between being inspired by others’ works in the arts and reproducing others’ works or aspects of them as they create their own works.
SOME CONSIDERATIONS FOR PROGRAM PLANNING IN THE ARTS
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