Students of Art Education gain practical skills and develop their abilities in critical reflection. They explore both the experience of visual arts and the theory of art and its communication.

The subject Art Education must be studied in the Interdisciplinary Master's program in combination with another subject. In the flexible variant and in the variant suitable for teaching degree programs, it is available as a major or minor subject, in the variant Aisthesis. cultural and media studies, it can be chosen as a minor subject.

Contents

The courses on offer are designed on the basis of the following desired skills and learning objectives:

• Knowledge of art teaching methods for school and non-school settings
• Knowledge of the theory of aesthetic education and methodological plurality
• Skills in mediation between art and society using current methods
• Development of skills and quality standards for the fields of culture, values and aesthetics
• Ability to teach others how to think clearly and critically and enable them to develop aesthetic skills in the context of art education
• Theoretical, historical, and practical knowledge of different design techniques
• Highly developed personal artistic interests and an ability to handle modern design methods skillfully
• A unique, refined artistic personality

Facilities

The Professorship of Art Education and Didactics of Art offers its students workshops and studios for hand drawing and painting, etching and lithography, screen printing, ceramics, metal and wood, textile and multimedia design.
Theater and dance projects are realized on campus in further media-equipped rooms. 
A core element of the equipment at the Professorship of Art Education and Didactics of Art is the "Makerspace" area, in which a wide variety of materials and design techniques are made available, from hand drawing to the use of digital, interactive drawing applications, from scribble to 3D printing and 3D scanning, from draft to creative implementation, in order to initiate and implement creative processes in a flowing transition from analog to digital design fields.
At the same time, there is equipment for accessing digital resources, e.g. smartphones, tablets, smartboards or digital drawing boards in order to open up further fields of application.

Here, you will find detailed information on the workshop spaces and the exhibitions of the Professorship of Art Education and Didactics of Art.

The Professorship of Art Education and Didactics of Art has numerous contacts abroad in the field of teaching and research. Guest lecturers from international universities regularly teach at the Professorship, and visits to international art exhibitions (e.g. the Biennale di Venezia) as well as field trips to international museums, galleries and studios enrich the program. Courses offered in English invite international students to study Art Education at the KU. The Art Education team gives presentations and talks at international conferences and also teaches at universities abroad.

The KU maintains a partnership network with around 300 universities worldwide. The KU International Office supports students in the planning phase and provides information on different financing possibilities for stays abroad.

At the Professorship of Art Education and Didactics of Art, the concept "Thinking and Learning with Images" opens up the real and digital space of images. Here, the concept of images is meant in a comprehensive sense and includes both images of the surface and pictorial works in space. The examination of such a comprehensive visual world that also consists of hybrid images, the production of which connects different forms of design, aims to produce, reflect and learn to understand images. The mediation in the communication space of art takes art history into account and refers back to the entire time window of artistic creation up to current positions in art. High art and the aesthetics of everyday life form the areas of action of the communication of art. "Commuting" between the visual worlds is a premise and distinguishes a contemporary and sustainable communication of art in all fields of art education.

The Interdisciplinary Master’s degree program provides for an internship at a private or public institution, which brings students into contact with possible professional fields at an early stage. Students also have the possibility to complete their internship abroad; for individual advice and support in finding an internship and financing possibilities, the KU Career Service and the International Internship Service are happy to help.

Career prospects

With this Master’s subject, students qualify for fields of activity in various art educational spheres of activity, in which art production and art reflection are initiated, implemented and also accompanied scientifically. Through the unique cooperation with the Bayerische Museumsakademie, students are given the opportunity to develop the exemplary art educational sphere of action "museum" as a space for experience and learning and as a complementary learning environment, and to gain essential insights into different professional fields of museum work and cultural management. Together with renowned representatives of the cultural sector, students develop concepts for mediation formats of the Bayerische Museumsakademie during their course of studies.

The degree program enables students to teach art and culture in a contemporary and sustainable way in many extracurricular learning environments of aesthetic education (e.g. museums, youth and adult education institutions), to develop and implement art education programs in the context of lifelong learning, taking into account diversity, heterogeneity and inclusion, and to provide art-related support for therapy and rehabilitation programs.