amn5387I believe that it is essential to have hands-on art making in both k-12 and undergraduate art education, because without these practices in place, art education would lose all its meaning. When looking at the concept of autonomy in the classroom for the sake of forming students to participate in a democratic society, the process of having materials for the students to work with, whatever they may be, allows them to develop their voices while also developing critical thinking skills, as was mentioned in a previous comment. Whatever materials the students might choose to develop their concepts and ideas, this process is essential to the formation of the students individual identity. Certainly, a student may choose to explore digital art, and the curriculum should be open to that, but there should also be other materials available for them.
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