In this article, the authors describe Picture Power, a project they implemented during late spring in a full-day Montessori preschool-kindergarten program in Philadelphia. In this project, the authors set out to gather information about children's visual learning. The underlying question was whether artwork could provide useful clues to inform…

Aimed at advancement of the arts through improvement of education for both understanding and production, this long range basic research program dealt primarily with the study of the varieties and interaction of human abilities, the nature of the tasks involved in the several arts, and the available means for inculcating or fostering the abilities…

THIS PROJECT IS CONCERNED WITH IMPROVEMENT OF THE NORMAL HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM WHICH IS VIRTUALLY LIMITED TO VERBAL AND FACTUAL SYSTEMS OF LEARNING. IT IS HYPOTHESIZED THAT VISUAL LEARNING CAN PROVIDE PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT AND DEEP CONSEQUENT MOTIVATION. TEAMS OF TEACHERS FROM SPECIALLY INVITED PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARTICIPATED IN TWO AND THREE…

This book of readings consists of selected papers presented under five topics: (1) Research and Theory--18 papers including research on visual effects on attitude and cognition, students of different field dependence levels, modern and postmodern design on reader perceptions of news, effects of gray shades, short-term memory capacity differences,…