In this study, I examine the integration of aesthetic education, specifically the visual arts and music, into secondary education history courses. Through aesthetic education, I argue, students can become emotionally connected to the past and can develop their historical literacy, which has implications for academic achievement in high school…

The purpose is to contribute knowledge to the field regarding the role of aesthetic experience when young students participate in intertwined science-art activities in science class. More precisely, we scrutinise how science suggestions are shaped in students' processes of imagination when exploring animal's ecology. Data corpus comprises audio…

The image is the raw material of the twenty-first century. Images infiltrate all social and cultural spaces. Its digital-mediated realities drive communication, industry and knowledge. Images saturate life and adolescent learners are familiar with the participatory nature of image production and its social, educational and personal communicative…

Computational aesthetics is a newly emerging cross-disciplinary field with its core situated in traditional research areas such as image processing and computer vision. Using a computer to interpret aesthetic terms for images is very challenging. In this dissertation, I focus on solving specific problems about analyzing the composition and style…

In a world that is becoming increasingly more visual, there is a greater need to educate children to better understand images. A school subject that deals directly with image understanding is visual arts. This article discusses an interdisciplinary approach to promote art understanding, within a multimodal environment that combines art and music.…

This is a quasi-experimental mixed methods study of a curriculum intervention focused on the interdisciplinary teaching of history, literacy, and the visual arts. In this study I address three questions: (1) How does students' learning in history change following their participation in an interdisciplinary history-literacy-visual arts…

"A primary task ... is to restore continuity between the refined and intensified forms of experience that are works of art and the everyday events, doings, and sufferings that are universally recognized to constitute experience."--John Dewey, "Art as Experience" (1934)Dewey's primary task has resurfaced in the visual culture movement and is a…

This paper explores the contextual value of solitude in learning; in so doing, it attempts to suggest an alternative method of instruction that is based on aesthetics as the reciprocal relationship between emotions and intellect, and between action and contemplation. Such an aesthetic education or method seeks to guide the student towards the…

Art is no more frozen for eternity than science, but public tolerance for artistic innovation is much lower than tolerance for change in other fields. More education about art would make us better able to analyze our existence and identify its nature more accurately. (IS)

This article describes the experience of Texas Tech University in its attempts to implement an interdisciplinary doctoral program in the fine arts. Results are presented of a survey taken of students graduating with a PhD in Fine Arts during the ten years the program has existed. (CJ)

The booklet presents California guidelines for arts education of gifted students in Grades 1 through 6. An introductory section examines the relevance of cognitive domain factors (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) to the arts. The second section presents 12 sample lesson plans in creative movement and…

Based on concepts of discipline-based art education, this instructional resource presents art experiences which use a variety of media to integrate art across the curriculum. Basic concepts of art are introduced in the first five lessons. The remaining 14 lessons are aimed at developing knowledge and skill bases in art processes, skills, media,…

These activity/workbooks use drawings done in the style of great women artists in order to promote a knowledge of female art history through a variety of educational experiences. Volume 1 and 2 present 26 women artists (one for each letter of the alphabet) that can be used as an entire year's curriculum. Volume 1 features artists whose names begin…

This article explores the factors which account for the weaknesses of the visual arts in the social studies curriculum. Of necessity, it therefore examines social studies teachers and their training. Finally, it suggests what can be done to make aesthetic expression an integral part of instruction in social studies. (Author/SJL)

Picture books have the potential to expand students' visual perceptions and foster language development, as well as promote an appreciation of art and literature. While books traditionally have been used to foster language development, limited use has been made of them in areas of visual and aesthetic literacy. This book intends to establish…