"Performance" education through a practical arts program is essential today and can be an articulating force for instruction; industrial and practical arts should have a special articulation role in a redesigned preprofessional curriculum; industrial arts will have an expanding role in work assessment, evaluation, adjustment and exploration role…

Industrial arts is not a single, formal discipline and it lacks a well-defined body of content. To identify appropriate content and learning experiences for industrial arts, its basis in interactionist-developmental psychology should be examined. (SK)

Herbartianism and many of its concepts (concentration, correlation, socialization) influenced industrial arts curriculum development. Using socioeconomic analysis, industrial arts educators identified the content areas of manufacturing, construction, communications, etc. However, another dominant strain stressed the technical, or manual arts,…

Advocating the study of practical arts as a means of preparing youth to cope with a wide range of personal and societal problems, the author presents his rationale for and an outline of a practical arts program. Male and female students would be required to enroll in a four-year block (grades 7-10) of practical arts programming. (DTT)