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"Collaboration to Design an Innovative Curriculum for Ceramic Art Education"

The project will consider ceramics programs Fine Arts Faculties, which can be named as "Contemporary Ceramics" or "Ceramic Arts". The main aim of this project is to create a common curriculum for all the partners, in aim to meet the requirements of the accreditation and based on the NASAD and ELIA standards. This project works by searching for all curriculums of ceramic departments in European institutions and try to find the suitable ways to develop and update them for us and for the other partners. It is going to survey the stakeholders of ceramic departments and their graduates to find the missing parts in our programmes to add it to the new curriculum. We also would like to cooperate to work on the assessment and evaluation methods and criteria should be followed in ceramic art and design programmes. To end up with a student-centred modular educational courses for ceramic art and design programmes.

The benefits from this project that we can have a ready curriculum model for us and for all European and foreign educational institutes to meet the accreditation requirements and the NASAD and ELIA standards. It will be also beneficial to have more effective Erasmus Exchange programmes with similar modules and credit systems. According to ‘Erasmus + Strategic Partnership for Higher Education (Key Action 203)', where we want to get our fund, we need 2 other partners at least to start this project.

In project scope

*To develop new and updated curriculum for partners,

*To create new and innovative course materials,

*Developing a student-centered modular education program for ceramic art program

*Creating a common curriculum suitable for Accreditation

*Developing an alternative assessment and evaluation methods specific to applied ceramic education

*Determination of “Required Courses” and content planning in ceramic art education

*Determining innovative “vocational courses” in ceramic art education and “elective courses” in art education

*Creating a curriculum based on the NASAD and ELIA standards

*Constructing a collective curriculum suitable for ERASMUS exchange

By the project process

*Focus meetings will be held at least once a year in each of the program partners places.

*Work will be combined by sharing tasks within the work plan with each partner.

*At least one congress, seminar or/and workshop will be organized by each program partner in their countries.

* At least 2 and up to 4 researhers should be in working groups of each program partners.