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Art in the Primary Schoolby John Lancaster
Routledge 1990; US$ 44.95All primary school teachers have to teach art but few have sufficient formal training to feel confident with the subject. This book shows how teachers and their pupils can get the most out of art lessons. more...
Against the Flowby Peter Abbs
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 56.95This book calls for education to become an end in itself, as opposed to the means to an end, and for a place to be found in contemporary education for the spiritual, the aesthetic and the ethical. more...
Arts Education Partnerships - Lessons Learned from One Schoolby Melissa K. Rowe; Laura Werber Castaneda; Tessa Kaganoff; Abby Eisenshtat Robyn
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95Examines the range of arts programming partnerships in the Los Angeles Unified School District and provides feedback from principals, teachers, arts organizations, and district arts advisors on the challenges and obstacles in these partnerships. more...
The Symbolic Orderby Peter Abbs
Routledge 1989; US$ 57.95Alongside "Living Powers" and "A is for Aesthetic" this book is intended to establish a conceptual frame for the Arts in Education series. The first and primary aim of this symposium is to put teachers of all the arts in touch with some of the most recent and the best writing on the nature of art. more...
Reflective Practices in Arts Educationby Pamela Burnard; Sarah Hennessy
Springer 2006; US$ 149.00Focuses on the role of reflective practice, as a source and resource for teaching and learning and research in the arts (here being Art and Design, Dance, Drama and Music). This book aims to investigate the concept of reflection and its application to a range of contemporary arts education contexts for both teachers and learners. more...
The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Artsby Helicon Publishing
Helicon Publishing 2008; US$ 29.66Celebration of the achievements of human creativity through time. more...
Panoramaby Wilhelm Wurzer
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 150.00The new electronic age has seen a radical transition from book to screen, a development which has obscured the fact that it is not what we see which matters but how we see what we see. We live in a time when the visible needs to be retheorised.Panorama presents a broad analysis of philosophies of the visible in art and culture, particularly in painting, film, photography, and literature. The work of key philosophers--Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Barthes, Blanchot, Foucault, Bataille, Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze--is examined in the context of visibility, expressivity, the representational and the postmodern. Contributors: Zsuzsa Baross, Robert Burch, Alessandro Carrera, Dana Hollander, Lynne Huffer, Volker Kaiser, Reginald Lilly,... more...
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Collage and Altered Artby Roni Johnson
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 21.99Collage and altered art pull together elements from a wide variety of crafts to create one-of-a-kind pieces that truly reflect your individual style. This photo-intensive guide walks you through all the latest techniques, from aging paper and photos to working with image transfers, rubber stamps, fabrics, and more. Plus, you'll learn how to source inexpensive materialsas well as found objects around your hometo make everything from handmade journals and artist trading cards to decorative boxes, jewelry, and wall art. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review Each skill or technique is defined and described Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Step-by-step instructions... more...
Renaissance in the Classroomby Gail E. Burnaford; Arnold Aprill; Cynthia Weiss; Arnold Arill
Taylor & Francis 2001; US$ 47.95Explains the process of integrating the arts into school curriculum, & provides teachers with a framework & examples for doing so. The premise is that such integration enhances learning & improves students' ability to think independently & solve problem more...
Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Artsby Roger T. Dean; Hazel Smith
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 129.99Addresses one of the most exciting and innovative developments within higher education more...









