This book explores the complex, yet critical, relationship between technology and creativity, specifically in educational contexts. Creativity is important for success in today's rapidly changing, radically contingent and hyperconnected world. This is even more relevant in the context of teaching and learning--where the psychological, sociological…

This article recounts how during COVID-19, the author's fine arts class was forced into an online mode. The old class design, which was based on physical classrooms and physical locations, was now unsuitable for online teaching. With Malaysian education's emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and art dismissed as a minor…

Discusses the major reasons why microcomputers have not yet become commonplace in the arts and describes how the College of Communications and Fine Arts at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) researched, planned, and implemented a college-wide computer technology program. (GEA)

In arguing for an interdisciplinary higher education curriculum in the arts (IDC), this paper points out that such collaborative efforts will help students to understand more thoroughly the interrelationships and underlying unity of the arts, to articulate their training more forcefully to the general public, and to engage more actively in…

This presentation opens with a description of the multi-image slide program that accompanied the lecture on folk dance. Nonverbal content of the lecture-exhibit-performance is noted within brackets throughout the script. The lecture covers the subject of folk dance in the college/university dance curriculum, and the impact of folk traditions on…

Experienced and knowledgeable artists, scholars and educators met to discuss the fundamental issues of dance as a performing art and as a discipline in higher education. During Phase I of the conference, participants explored the role and nature of dance in education and developed curricular guidelines. A blueprint for a 25-year projection of…

Theoretical considerations which could resolve the conflict between fine arts and general education curriculums are examined. An analysis of one practical application of these ideas, conducted at Alternate College of SUNY at Brockport, is presented, and a program of total curriculum integration is proposed. (JMD)

The United States Military Academy has made some evolutionary improvements in its curriculum: more student-teacher interaction, an outstanding lecture series and cultural program, art seminars with Manhattanville College, and a Fine Arts Forum. (PG)

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)

While most administrators and faculty would support the idea of developing aesthetic education in the college curriculum, few feel any urgency about it. Each institution should examine its mission statement and develop a comprehensive philosophy about the place of the arts in its curriculum. (MSE)

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)

Discusses the reform efforts in England for restructuring the post-16 curriculum. Relates the history of the Crowther Committee's agenda for specialization within the curriculum and addresses the two proposals by A. D. C. Peterson and B. W. M Young who each provided alternatives for broadening the curriculum in order to combat the proposal for…

Texas, through a recent state legislative mandate, has initiated educational reform for its public school system and teacher education programs in colleges and universities. To implement this reform, the Texas Educational Agency has developed essential elements that are required to be integrated into such courses as the visual arts for a…

The Centennial Education Program at the University of Nebraska piloted an Artist in Residence Program that has significant potential for serving both the student body and the larger community. It provided a mechanism for revitalizing the Centennial interdisciplinary curriculum on a regular basis. (Author/LBH)