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In the Shadow of the Peace Walls: Art, Education, and Social Reconstruction in Northern Ireland
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Anderson, Tom; Conlon, Bernard – Art Education, 2013
Northern Ireland's well-known civil strife between Catholics and Protestants had enjoyed an uneasy peace, but a recent outbreak of new violence in 2010 caused disappointment to these authors. Bernard Conlon and Tom Anderson collaborated on creating a new children's peace mural with the Kids' Guernica Peace Mural Project in West Belfast. This Kids'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Protestants, Catholics
Mural Making.
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Anderson, Tom; And Others – School Arts, 1981
Five articles describe techniques of mural making and mural projects which have been accomplished by elementary and secondary students, including a class of blind and partially sighted children. (SJL)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Painting (Visual Arts), Planning
Authentic Instruction in Art: Why and How to Dump the School Art Style.
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Anderson, Tom; Milbrandt, Melody – Visual Arts Research, 1998
Reexamines Arthur Efland's (1976) landmark analysis of the school art style in light of contemporary theory and practice. In that context, suggests "authentic" instruction in art that ties art to real life and real-life practices of the contemporary art world is a feasible strategy for dumping the school art style. (DSK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Drawing upon the Eye, the Brain, and the Heart.
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Anderson, Tom – Art Education, 1992
Argues that drawing in art is a visual, intellectual, and emotional act. Provides suggestions for helping students understand these three perceptions. Discusses the impact on curriculum design in art education. (CFR)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
The Content of Art Criticism.
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Anderson, Tom – Art Education, 1991
Explores the sources of art criticism and reviews some extant pedagogical models. Outlines the content skills to be developed and the role of art criticism in a discipline-based teacher training curriculum. Recommends that art criticism should incorporate pedagogy and other disciplines of art. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Criticism, Art Education, Art History, Art Teachers
Art, Education, and the Bomb: Reflections on an International Children's Peace Mural Project.
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Anderson, Tom – Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 1997
Argues that social change can be evidenced in the absence of an image. Discusses how murals painted by children 50 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki do not depict "the bomb," but it pervades the murals nonetheless. Shows that viewers draw unintended analogies between the images and the bombings. (DSK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Cultural Images, Foreign Countries
The International Baccalaureate Model of Content-Based Art Education.
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Anderson, Tom – Art Education, 1994
Asserts that content-based art education, which is dominated by discipline-based art education at the elementary level, is also represented by a secondary model developed within the International Baccalaureate Program. Maintains that the program provides a content-based structure and fosters thinking skills, creativity, and critical appreciation.…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Art Teachers, Course Content