Reports study findings which indicate that certain styles of family communication and mediation methods facilitate comprehension of television more effectively for boys than for girls. Also discusses differential effects of two styles of discipline on each sex. (PS)

Offers a rationale for teaching art history as an integral part of the K-12 curriculum. Maintains that art history instruction should begin in kindergarten. Includes sections on the relationship between art history, art production, art criticism, and aesthetics. (JDH)

This article describes the importance of architectural studies for art students. Recommends that architectural studies include historical trends, critical analysis, and studio practice. (JDH)

Nonprint media are under attack as examples of education gone soft; in fact, they offer a vehicle for students to understand and cope with the realities of life. (Author/KS)

Because of television, advertising, and the Internet, the primary literacy of the 21st century will be visual. It is no longer enough to read and write text--students must learn to process both words and pictures. They must be able to move fluently between text and images, between literal and figurative words. This book examines the effect on…

The word 'literacy' is a familiar one in relation to the forms of expression and structure of verbal language. In this collection of papers the definition of literacy is expanded as it can be applied to individual art forms of dance, drama, media, music, visual art, and design. These art forms are those specified as the subjects forming the Arts…

Describes how to provide students with the opportunity of examining, discussing, and writing about the appeal of advertisements. (TO)

Author looks at the various aspects of film that make it a potent educational tool. (HB)

Describes a set of exercises that help students learn about filmmaking. (TO)

A study of past and current definitions of documentary film, rejecting those as too superficial, offering as a better definition one that demands examination of the internal evidence of films and remains aware of the ontological limitations of the medium. (CH)

Author describes the value of visual literacy as a teaching tool and learning technique in various schools throughout the country. (MB)

Discussion of numerous films illustrating ways in which violence is presented on the screen. (SP)

Author designed a series of instruments'' which measured a level of environmental sensitivity from simple awareness through the formation of values''; details are not given, as the testing program was informal, but the results were decidedly provocative of further study.'' (Author/SP)

Describes and evaluates fifteen ideas of the value of art experience as objectives of art education; concludes that the most worthy educational objectives are (1) the development of citizens capable of responding to the entire spectrum of the visual arts, and (2) the exploration of new and better ways to coexist as human beings through the use of…

Psycholinguistics, pathology, and developmental, cognitive, and cross-cultural social psychology are cited to support the argument that the visual literacy construct has not led to useful research and defensible practice. A reconceptualization of the inherent assumptions and implications is proposed. A 68-item reference list is provided.…