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The following recommendations were derived from issues and practices related to the need for and content of a visual arts education research agenda toward the 21st century.
Recommendation One
Research Agenda: NAEA will adopt this visual arts education research agenda and develop detailed, specific topics and initiatives that address issues relevant to visual arts education.
Recommendation Two
Demographics: This agenda will address demographic issues, including data about the visual arts teaching force, certification, curricula, resources, technologies, facilities, and policies.
Recommendation Three
Concepts: This agenda will address issues dealing with content and practices of art instruction including teaching, learning, socio-cultural concerns, and assessment concerns.
Recommendation Four
Curriculum: This agenda will address curricular issues, including content; instructional philosophy, goals, aims, and objectives; teaching strategies, instructional and technological resources, and outcomes.
Recommendation Five
Instruction: This agenda will address issues of instruction, including problem solving, decision making, curricula, and program support mechanisms, teaching methods, time allotments, instructional and technological resources, instructional models, art teaching across domains, and collaboration with museums and other non-school organizations.
Recommendation Six
Contexts: This agenda will address issues related to various settings and contexts in which art education occurs, including actors related to social and environmental issues, art health hazards, classroom settings, community environments, educational policies, administrative support, and out-of-school settings such as museums and other community resources.
Recommendation Seven
Learning: This agenda will address issues related to student learning that include measurement of attitudes and values, learning across domains, learning strategies and styles, developmental and cognitive learning, and the impact of art instruction.
Recommendation Eight
Assessment: This agenda will address issues related to instructional and program evaluation including assessment of processes and products, individualized procedures and tasks, criteria and benchmarks, qualitative assessment, and standardized testing.
Recommendation Nine
Teacher Education: This agenda will address the structure of teacher education programs, and pre-service and in-service education issues, including laboratory and clinical experiences, post-baccalaureate education, and alternative certification standards.
Recommendation Ten
Technology: NAEA will establish an electronic database to collect information and support visual arts research that includes identification of past and present researchers, research issues, and methodologies.
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