Art Education

This paper analyzes the learning difference between the knowledge-based classroom setting and the internship experience.

820 words () | 4 sources | APA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

In this article, the writer discusses that the basis of this formal art analysis is to provide the various differences that occur in learning environments. The writer notes that although the classroom offers a knowledge based criterion for learning; the internship work environment offers a different, more realistic application of these knowledge-based principles through experience. In this manner, the writer points out that both applications for learning are necessary, but they offer different approaches to understanding insular and external environments in interior design.

From the Paper:

"The major difference between these two different learning methods is the insular learning within the classroom, and the external facets of the working environment in an internship. In this manner, the knowledge that I had gained in the classroom could not replace the complicated experiences that I encountered in the workplace. For instance, at my internship, I was asked to answer phone calls from possible clients. Although I had learned much about interior design in the classroom, there was a great deal more learned by simply talking with clients and their highly varied stylistics. The demands of their artistic vision, the complexities of their style tastes, and other factors brought an experiential and real world application of knowledge into action. In many cases, what I had learned in the classroom often seemed like rigid method guidelines, which forced me to be more creative and intuitive with customers. Although one can expect the classroom to teach everything there is to know about interior design, the necessity of an internship helped me to get real world experience and forced me to adapt to design principles that rely on intensive adaptivity, not book knowledge."

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