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No. 247 | Instant Art, Instant Culture: The Unspoken Policy for American Schools
Laura H. Chapman
Chapman critically examines the reasons for the token educational programs many schools offer in all the arts, including music, dance, and theater, but with particular emphasis on the visual arts. She writes with conviction on the importance of effecting change in attitudes and school practices that actually prevent many children from studying arts on a regular basis. Chapman devotes much of the book to providing suggestions for improving school instruction in the arts. Among the topics covered are: What should be taught in an arts program and who should teach it; why a school curriculum should include the arts, sciences, and humanities as core subjects for all students; how to improve teacher education programs; what models for change have been suggested by various panels and federal groups, and how effective they would be.
224 pgs. {Reprinted 2005} ISBN 0-8077-2722-9
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No. 269 | Aesthetics and Criticism In Art Education
Ralph Smith, Editor
Aesthetics And Criticism In Art Education was the first
book of its kind to indicate the relevance of aesthetics,
art history, and art criticism to the theory and practice
of art education. It contributed to subsequent interest
in aesthetic education and anticipated one of the major
developments in art education during the eighties and
nineties, the approach known as discipline-based art
education that emphasizes grounding instruction in the
four interrelated disciplines of art making, art history,
art criticism, and aesthetics. The opening section explains
the meaning of aesthetics, sets out the structure of
knowledge in the arts, indicates how subject matter
in the teaching of art is manipulated by a number of
characteristic verbal operations, and discusses the
relevance of aesthetics to research. Three of these
operations—defining, explaining, and evaluating—are
then examined in later sections of the volume.
508 pgs. {Reprinted 2002}
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No. 282 | Art & Ethnics
J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr
Art & Ethnics was "the first in-depth
review of issues and reasons for representing the ethnic
diversity of artists and art in our teaching, based
on the author's own research, wisdom and skill as a
teacher," says Laura Chapman. "A landmark
and still relevant!" In this volume, you will find
food for thought and practical information for teaching.
Grigsby has identified major issues and offers insight
about the meanings of diversity—ethnic understanding,
cultural differences and models for students, religion,
art heritage, protest components including three major
aspects of ethnic art. Teachers of art have a special
obligation to address cultural differences in their
teaching. Those consequences are not trivial. Unless
these differences in values and attitudes are bridged,
the teacher will have a difficult time helping students
grow in their own cultural art forms. That is the central
theme in this book and a major lesson all art educators
should teach.
147 pgs. {Reprinted 2000}
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No. 266 | Educating Artistic Vision
Elliot Eisner
An NAEA 1997 reprint of the classic art education text
to celebrate NAEA's 50th Anniversary. Out of print until
now, Educating Artistic Vision is an important
text for future teachers and members as well as for
libraries and staff development collections.
354 pgs. {Reprinted 1997}
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No. 270 | Becoming Human Through Art
Edmund Burke Feldman
An NAEA 1997 reprint of the classic art education text
to celebrate NAEA's 50th Anniversary. Out of print until
now, Becoming Human Through Art is an important
text for future teachers and members as well as for
libraries and staff development collections.
389 pgs. {Reprinted 1997}
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No. 237 | Understanding Children's Art for Better Teaching
Betty Lark-Horovitz, Hilda Present Lewis, and Mark Luca
Loaded with images of children's work, Understanding
Children's Art is directed at early childhood, elementary,
and middle level education. It contains a host of examples
of practical research on children's art. Many chapters
examine individual and cultural aspects; children's
attitudes toward art; planning and teaching in the elementary
school; creativity; and relating art to other areas
of the curriculum. Recognized as one of the significant
art education texts, it continues to provide rich insights
for teaching and learning in our schools.
259 pgs. {Reprinted 1999}
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No. 220 | Readings in Discipline-based Art Education: A Literature of Educational Reform
Ralph A. Smith, Editor
This sourcebook is the result of more than 2 years of research by Smith with 42 chapters by prominent art educators-scholars, practitioners, and researchers. The reader will find an array of DBAE ideas and practice.
Contributors to this anthology identify major issues and offer indepth views about the meaning, interpretations, and characteristics of DBAE. They offer guides on artistic and aesthetic development, preservice and inservice for teachers, staff development, and teacher preparation. Several chapters examine the functions of museums and the evaluation of museum education programs. There are provocative chapters about learning outcomes; teaching art history; types of art criticism; issues of gender, and multiculturalism; and the relationship of art education and postmodernism.
429 pgs. {1999} ISBN 1-890160-12-1
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