In this article, Elliot Eisner defends the sections he wrote for the Getty Trust report entitled "Beyond Creating: The Place of Art in American Schools." (JDH)

This article is based on a study of educational goals in the State of Maryland, and offers findings of the study as related to fine arts education, with recommendations for action on the basis of these findings. (Author)

The author describes the relationship between media, expression, and the arts and suggests what these relationships imply for educational practice, the arts and media research. (Author/AS)

Argues that studying professional art critics can provide material for studying art criticism in the classroom. Focuses on the published work of Lawrence Alloway. Describes how his work covered a wide range of artists and movements and how he was politically proactive in promoting underrepresented populations of artists. (KM)

Questions the use of professional artists as appropriate role models for students learning about art making in the classroom. Examines a biography of one artist and reviews research on the psychological and social circumstances that facilitate art production. Suggests that the creation of those circumstances in the classroom would be complicated.…

This article examines discipline-based art education (DBAE) issues for their origins, meanings, and implications. The issues are discussed within four general categories of conceptual structure, curriculum selections, research foundations, and organizational affiliations. (Author/JDH)

Discussed are historical methods, adapted from genealogy, that will help the field of art education locate art educators or their descendants who might have documents or notes that would aid in painting a more accurate picture of art education in the 20th century. (RM)

Investigates the cognitive skills developed through arts, such as higher order thinking, that have an effect on learning, thinking, and in subject matter domains. Focuses on the artistic experiences of students (n=2046) who attended the target elementary and middle schools (n=12). Includes references. (CMK)

Proposes a definition for folk art based on analyzing and sorting the descriptors and identifiers used in the disciplines of art history, folklore, anthropology, and antique and folk art collection. The proposed definition is not meant to specify an undeniable category of art, but rather to suggest specific aspects which should be identified in…

Discusses a cognitive model that is an alternative to Jerome Bruner's spiral curriculum, developed and based on the metaphor that the mind's knowledge base is a lattice. States that the lattice metaphor offers an understanding of cognition but some questions still remained unanswered. (CMK)

Examines procedures derived from ordinary-language philosophy to help students learn to investigate conceptual issues in art. Sets out and analyzes three procedures relative to art education and makes suggestions for further research. Maintains that the principles and proficiencies in philosophical inquiry can be introduced and reinforced in all…

The Attitude toward Arts Education Scale (ATAES) was developed to assess attitude change in elementary school teachers resulting from a K-6 arts education program. This paper describes the instrument's construction and its reliability and validity properties. A copy of the ATAES is appended. (Author/SJL)

Investigates the relationship between contemporary art and public art education during the 1960s in Quebec, within the theoretical perspective of the social history of art. Analyzes the consolidation of modernism and the importance of the societal debate on education that questions the place and the role of art in society. (KM)

Focuses on ways in which a group of high school students responded to fine art and other forms of visual culture, such as advertising images, cartoons, and propaganda posters. Discusses three emergent themes in student responses: (1) purposes of imagery; (2) interpretation of images; and (3) relationships among images. (DSK)

Examines art education practices using interpretations of curriculum integration positions from the field of education. Analyzes four art education paradigms for using the arts: (1) for resources in other disciplines; (2) to enlarge organizing centers; (3) to interpret subjects, ideas, or themes; and (4) to understand life-centered issues through…