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NAEA PROPOSALS DUE END OF MAY. 

Interviews. How they negotiate those responses. 

THE HUMAN FIGURE. 

Drawing was a portrait of the experiential self. 
Sense of being present in their own space. 

Sense of volume and experiencing the body in the paper as opposed to on the paper. 
Capturing a sense of space in their papers, to have an ability to think around things. 

Looking at all of these different ways of looking at the world, what is the right way of looking at the world. The concreteness is beginning to give way. 

There is a socio-cultural determinant of how we think about the very same thing. 

What is right and truth? 

As they grow secondary schools, confronting ways if envisioning the world, and thinking about the world. 

The cognitive level has something to do with taking different perspectives and metaphorical thinking. 

ANOTHER LEVEL OF SELF. Adolescents themselves become the center of their own dramas and stories. 

1ST STORY: THE SELF
The self portrait. The experiential self --> now, what do I look like. 

In art, you can draw and destroy things, you can cancel things out. 

You can carry out acts of destruction. This isn't the invention of the adolescent. Art is a safe place to play out bad feelings. We all have bad feelings, it is inescapable. 

We can use the arts as a safe place to capture bad feelings. 

Using the material to destroy something. 

PORTRAIT THAT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT THEMSELVES 
HOW DO YOU EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS 

MOST METAPHORICAL LESSON: THE SHOE DRAWING

Shoe is unique to the self. 

THE SELF AS SOMETHING ELSE. 

The self as Leonardo da Vinci 
The self as a Mermaid 

ENGAGE PEOPLE 

Materials will provide the voices for the feelings. 

BEING LOOKED AT is another theme of adolescence. 

People being able to see inside your head. 
INSIDE HEAD PAINTING AND DRAWING

Aware of aesthetic style early on. Between 10-14 TRANSITIONAL YEARS. BEGIN TO FIND THEIR OWN STYLE. LET THEM DO THAT NATURALLY. 

LET THEM MAKE DECISIONS ON THEIR OWN AWAY FROM CONVENTION. 

THE KEY AND BASIS IN THAT YOU HAVE CHOICES. 

Offering them options to explore and try out new things. EMPOWER THEM with their own mind, their own style, their own decision making. 

Bodily vulnerability. 

THE SENSE OF BEING MULTIPLE SELVES

RELATIONSHIPS!!!

EXPLORING THE EXTREMES OF HUMAN ENDURANCE. 

DEATH COMMON THEME IN ADOLESCENTS
Suicide is now known. Physical pressures, extreme endurance.