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The panoramic photographs of Manitoba landscapes in the website banners are used with the kind permission of © Stan Milosevic.

The “landscape” images and metaphor illustrated in the website banners represent current understandings about curriculum presented in the “Guiding Principles for WNCP Curriculum Framework Projects” (Western and Northern Canadian Protocol, 2011).

New ways of thinking about curriculum involve a “shift in the images we use, away from knowledge pictured as fragmented pieces put together, one piece at a time, in a linear fashion on an assembly line, to an image of knowledge as a complex organic network organized into living fields, territories or 'landscapes'. Learning about these living fields of knowledge requires: 'learning the landscape'.”

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Visual Arts

The Nature of the Visual Arts Discipline

Art enriches a vibrant culture and is integral to human life. It has the power to illuminate, deepen, and broaden human experience. art surrounds people everywhere. The work of artists, artisans, and designers has an impact on daily experience, helps define and express individual and collective identities, and shapes, reflects, and comments upon societal and cultural values.

Art is a multimodal, cross-cultural literacy and expressive art form. The ways of knowing through the visual arts include cognitive, physical, affective, intuitive, and spiritual modes. The visual arts embody and express ideas, feelings, and meaning. Art communicates within and across cultural, societal, historical, and even pre-historical contexts. It helps people appreciate and connect with others, past and present, as well as understand and celebrate their own distinctiveness.