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No. 258 | Spheres of Possibility: Linking Service-Learning
and the Visual Arts
Carol S. Jeffers
Service-learning can assume many shapes and serve multiple purposes. It can be used to develop in students a sense of belonging to their community, an understanding of the diversity of their surroundings, a deeper empathy for those less privileged than themselves, a sense of social responsibility, and a greater understanding and respect for the knowledge that is created and resides in communities that are often less visible to the public eye. Service-learning is clothed in a patchwork quilt, stitching together, a montage of questions, of stories and revelations, a collaged narrative that is comforting and discomforting, yet remains elegant, if frayed at the edges. These are lessons here for all of us in service learning to enjoy, whether our discipline lies within the visual arts or not.
160 pgs. {2005} ISBN 1-890160-32-6
Nonmember Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00
No. 277 | Built Environment Education in Art Education
Joanne K. Guilfoil and Alan R. Sandler, Editors
Co-editors Joanne K. Guilfoil and Alan R. Sandler
have brought together an informative and inspiring array
of materials for teachers who wish to give more attention
to architecture and the built environment. Contributors
to this anthology identify major issues and offer diverse
views about the meanings of environments-multicultural,
feminist, ecological, social and personal. They offer
guides for analyzing environments, including concepts
from art, urban planning, architectural history and
criticism. Several chapters treat the classroom and
community as contexts for reflective and creative learning,
for individual and collaborative activities. There are
provocative chapters about homes built by "homeless"
people, the values articulated in school architecture,
the constructive activities of children, and research
on teaching youngsters about historical preservation.
Teachers of art have a special obligation to address
the aesthetic and human consequences of architecture
and the built environment. Those consequences are not
trivial. They are evident in how people perceive, think
about and treat environments—and ultimately, each
other. That is the central theme in this anthology and
a major lesson art educators should teach.
246 pgs. {1999} ISBN 0-890160-05-9
Nonmember Price: $22.00
Member Price: $18.00
No. 208 | Beyond the School: Community and Institutional Partnerships in Art Education
Rita L. Irwin and Anna M. Kindler, Editors
The themes of collaboration, partnership, and community are central to this anthology. The text offers encouragement and words of wisdom born out of experience and careful reflection to guide development of new alliances drawing on and strengthening communities through an arts involvement. It presents a strong rationale for collaborative partnerships that extend arts education beyond the school boundaries by demonstrating benefits that stem from such collaborative initiatives. This anthology does not undermine the value and importance of formal, systematic art education in school settings; it explores ways in which learning that begins at school can be extended and supported by resources that reside within the community, highlighting ways in which learning can be enriched through the participation and involvement of new, outside partners able to contribute expertise, insight, and funds not readily available in schools.
100 pgs. {1999} ISBN 1-890160-09-1
Nonmember Price:
$19.00
Member Price: $12.00
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