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  • Finding Art's Placeby Nicholas Paley

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 21.95

    Finding 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...

  • Clementine Hunterby Art Shiver; Tom Whitehead

    LSU Press 2012; US$ 26.00

    Clementine 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...

  • Aa is for Aestheticby Peter Abbs

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 120.00

    This volume reaffirms the indispensable place of the arts in any coherent curriculum. The author hopes that the specific arguments formulated in the book will advance the conservationist post-Modernist aesthetic. more...

  • The Rationality of Feeling (RLE Edu K)by David Best

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 120.00

    This volume emphasizes the necessity for arts teachers to nurture the personal development of their students by expanding their artistic understanding and creativity. In aiming to provide a broader understanding for the effective teaching of the arts, the author provides powerful reasons for seeing the arts as agents of learning, understanding... more...

  • The Arts in Education(RLE Edu O)by Les Tickle

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 140.00

    The arts in education are currently the subject of considerable controversy. Some people argue that fostering creativity in schools is important; that the arts can provide a substantial contribution to the development of the capacity for creative thought and action; and that therefore the arts should be well represented at all levels of the school... more...

  • Cultivating the Habit of Art in Education and Therapyby Malcolm Ross

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95

    The 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...

  • The Muses Go to Schoolby Herbert Kohl; Tom Oppenheim

    New Press, The 2012; US$ 26.95

    What do Whoopi Goldberg, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Rosie Perez, and Phylicia Rashad have in common? A transformative encounter with the arts during their school years. Whether attending a play for the first time, playing in the school orchestra, painting a mural under the direction of an art teacher, or writing a poem, these famous performers each... more...

  • The Arts in Educationby Mike Fleming

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 40.95

    Do the arts improve academic achievement? What does it mean to ?teach? art? What should the balance of classic and pop be in the music curriculum? Should we encourage young children on the stage? How do we judge whether what a child produces is good? How do we justify the arts in the curriculum? What should be the balance between form and content... more...

  • Transforming Education Through the Artsby Brian Caldwell; Tanya Vaughan

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 46.95

    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 often affect the arts most severely. Drawing on the wealth of evidence already available on the impact of... more...

  • Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School? The Artsby Martin Fautley; Jonathan Savage

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 35.95

    The 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...