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Getty Center for Education in the Arts, Los Angeles, CA. – 1991
This report summarizes the findings of a research project involving a consortium of American art museums that joined forced to understand themselves better from the perspective of their visitors. The project had three objectives: (1) to identify staff expectations and impressions of public expectations about art museums; (2) to evaluate public…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Attitudes, Audience Analysis
Diket, Read M., Ed. – 1996
This booklet contains the abstracts of nearly 100 conference sessions presented at the National Art Education Association Conference in 1996. The topics ranged across multiple contexts for art education, explored development issues in art, and included computer usages in art teacher education and the art classroom. Research presentations also…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism
Kern, Evan J., Ed. – 1986
Eighteen scholars, representing classroom teachers, museum educators, and higher education faculty were invited to prepare papers on the topic of aesthetics and art criticism in the classroom. The papers included are: "Signs Visual and Verbal" (Mary Wiseman); "Role-playing the Aesthetician in Art Education" (Robert Russell); "Is Teaching…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Values, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
Cwi, David, Ed. – 1978
Summaries are presented of arts research projects and of conference workshops which reviewed the projects. These provide an important stock-taking of currently available data on the arts and review a variety of issues involved in improving the present situation. There are four major sections. The first section presents research on the artistic and…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Artists, Audiences, Craft Workers
Balfe, Judith H., Ed.; Heine, Joni Cherbo, Ed. – 1988
The 13 seminar papers presented in this collection discuss various avenues used for educating adults in the arts in order to enrich existing arts audiences and to educate the widest possible adult population in the practice and history of art and aesthetics. These efforts will ensure that the quality and quantity of arts participation and support…
Descriptors: Adults, Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
Getty Center for Education in the Arts, Los Angeles, CA. – 1987
The rationale for this seminar was to strengthen the discipline-based art education (DBAE) stance and extend its horizons. The format of the proceedings featured a speaker followed by a respondent and group discussions on each of the four issues addressed by the seminar. Dennie Wolf explained how current research in child development and cognitive…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art History
Pielasch, Helmut, Ed.; And Others – 1978
The document contains 10 author contributed chapters (in four languages) which resulted from a 1976 international symposium on problems concerning the preschool education of blind children and the guidance of their parents. Chapters have the following titles (with authors and nationality in parentheses): "Development of the Blind Child"…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Art Appreciation, Blindness, Child Development
Ligtvoet, Johan – 1987
This booklet details the proceedings of an international conference focusing on education in the arts in a multicultural world. An international perspective can be gained by encouraging the teaching of literature, music, arts, and drama in an culturally-unbound way, by establishing a progressive means of interpreting other cultures and other arts,…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Cultural Activities, Cultural Awareness
Dufrene, Phoebe – 1990
This paper described the events and results of a workshop on Native American symbolism presented to educators and held in Kansas City, Missouri. The presenter maintained that some of the most crucial problems facing U.S. educators and students are caused by racial misunderstandings, and that the universality of artistic expression can be a vehicle…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
Kelder, Richard, Ed. – 1994
This book presents 24 papers dealing with learning theory and its application at the postsecondary level, many stemming from the ideas of Robert Sternberg and Howard Gardner. Articles include: (1) "Introduction" (Richard Kelder); (2) "Teaching Variability in Problem Solving" (Patricia D. Stokes); (3) "Cognitive Theory and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Art Appreciation, Creative Teaching, Creativity