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Artstarts
ABC-CLIO 1994; US$ 39.00Integrate creative arts into the curriculum with a variety of engaging, classroom-tested arts activities. Drama, movement, pantomime, puppetry, storytelling, visual arts, media arts, and music come alive with innovative activities. Reproducible scripts for readers theatre and a score for a musical are included. Each activity notes the intended grade... more...
Cultural Pedagogy
ABC-CLIO 1992; US$ 151.00In recent years, debates over culture and education have entered the public consciousness as never before. Politicians, bureaucrats, and scholars have credited these endeavors with the capacity to influence matters ranging from public morality to national productivity. Trend examines points at which art and learning intersect in both traditional and... more...
Artist Teacher
Intellect 2010; US$ 20.00The philosophy of the artist-teacher is not a new phenomenon. In fact, many artists working within the Bauhaus, nineteenth century Schools of Design, and The Basic Design Movement all applied this method of thinking to their teaching. The Artist-Teacher explores the many facets of this methodology, and the various ways art has been taught over the... more...
Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School? The Arts
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 35.95The school curriculum is a contested arena. There are competing pressures from those who advocate that it should be constructed on a subject specific basis, whereas at the other end of the continuum is the stance taken by this book, that learning, and especially learning in the arts, can transcend artificial boundaries between subjects. This book... more...
Cultivating the Habit of Art in Education and Therapy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95The constituency for education and therapy in the arts is rapidly expanding beyond the conventional school and clinical settings to include the wider community. In Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy , Malcolm Ross integrates traditional Chinese Five Element Theory, also known as The Five Phases of Change, with contemporary Western psychological... more...
Clementine Hunter
LSU Press 2012; US$ 26.00Clementine Hunter (1887?1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at Louisiana?s Melrose Plantation, she painted on hundreds of objects available around her?glass snuff bottles, discarded roofing shingles, ironing boards?as well as on canvas. She produced between five and ten... more...
Finding Art's Place
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 21.95Finding Art's Place showcases three artistic/educational experiments located outside of school settings. Nicholas Paley presents the texts, voices and the teaching and learning practices of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (Kids of Survival); the video work of Sadie Benning, the adolescent filmmaker who has won critical acclaim for her sensitive self-explorations... more...






