"A comprehensive look at how the arts (broadly conceived) can improve teaching, learning, and curriculum for all students, written in accessible language for non-academics and non-experts. It contains many evocative examples to illustrate the power of the arts to change education"--
Presenting research from a range of settings, from preschool to university, and featuring contributions from scholars and theorists, educational psychologists, teachers and teaching artists, the book offers a comprehensive exploration and ...
This book presents ground-breaking research on the ways the Arts fosters motivation and engagement in both academic and non-academic domains.
This is a bold new step in arts education.” —David R. Olson, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto “Will be at the top of the list of essential texts in arts education.
This book is designed to assist pre-service and in-service classroom teachers in weaving music, visual arts, drama, and movement into the elementary school curriculum--thereby stimulating the learning process, enriching other subject areas, ...
This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that ...
Edward B. Fiske , Champions of Change : The Impact of the Arts on Leam- ing ( Washington , DC : Arts Education ... Erica Halverson , How the Arts Can Save Education ( New York : Teachers College Press , 2021 ) ; Raquel Jimenez ...
A society is more likely to enjoy cultural health when constituted by persons with aesthetic intelligence . In this sense arts education is a critical necessity . NOTES 1. Ernst Cassirer , An Essay on Man ( New Haven : Yale University ...
A noted educator and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author team up to introduce readers to progressive education, which has been forging creative thinkers in the United States for more than 100 years, and explain how this practice—which ...
The book explores issues connected to both teaching and learning in the arts, engaging in debates about the value of meaning making in the artistic process, the way social ethos can guide performative approaches and the changes in education ...
This volume contests the current higher educational paradigm of using objectives and outcomes as ways to measure learning.