Art Instruction

No. 291 | Pathways To Art Appreciation, A Source Book For Media & Methods
Al Hurwitz and Stanley S. Madeja with Eldon Katter

Pathways is a source book for art teachers for the teaching of art appreciation at all levels. Content strands are carried throughout the book. Each chapter opens with a general discussion about various approaches to the study of art related to the "teaching of art appreciation." Instructional strategies and art activities are presented in a separate "Things to Do" section At the close of each chapter, "Assessment Strategies" that contribute to the teaching of art appreciation are addressed. Formative and summative assessment activities can be found throughout the book. Many instructional approaches in the "Things to Do" strand are dual purpose, being applicable to assessment and to instruction. This book accomplishes two goals: to help dispel the unnecessary mystique surrounding art appreciation, and to clarify the significant ways in which this far-reaching subject can excite, motivate, and enhance the lives of students. It serves as a resource for the teacher who desires to enhance and expand the teaching of art appreciation in the classroom.

125 pgs. {2003} ISBN 1-890160-24-5
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No. 261 | Instructional Methods for the Artroom
Andra L. Nyman, Editor

Selected NAEA Advisorys provide a ready collection of information for classroom teachers, for new teachers, and for faculty who are concerned with implementing effective instructional methods of teaching in the art classroom. The collection includes reprints of Advisories that translate theories about learning and teaching and make suggestions concerning practical applications to instruction in art education. These reprints address the following topics: motivational techniques for the art classroom; organizing and implementing curricular material; managing student behavior; organizing the classroom environment; instructional techniques and strategies; evaluation and assessment of student work; working with student teachers.

50 pgs. {1996} ISBN 0-937652-93-8
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Assessment

No. 211 | Assessing Expressive Learning
Charles M. Dorn, Stanley S. Madeja, and F. Robert Sabol

A practical guide for teacher-directed authentic assessment in K-12 visual arts education, Assessing Expressive Learning is the only book in the art education field to propose and support a research-supported teacher-directed authentic assessment model for evaluating K-12 studio art, and to offer practical information on how to implement the model. This practical text for developing visual arts assessment for grades 1-12 is based on and supported by the results of a year-long research effort involving 70 art teachers and 1,500 students in 12 school districts in Florida, Indiana, and Illinois. The purpose of the study was to demonstrate that creative artwork by K-12 students can be empirically assessed using quantitative measures that are consistent with the philosophical assumptions of authentic learning and with the means and ends of art, and that these measures can reliably assess student art growth. Use as a text for undergraduate and graduate classes in assessment, and highly relevant for college professors, researchers, and school district personnel involved in the education and supervision of art teachers, and researchers interested in performance measurement.

208 pgs. {2004} ISBN: 0-8058-4524-0
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No. 203 | Designing Assessment in Art
Carmen L. Armstrong

A valuable in-depth study of art assessment written especially for art educators. The book presents and discusses what can be assessed in art; various kinds of assessment instruments; developing and administering assessment; alternatives to traditional assessment; and scoring and reporting results. This book integrates assessment of student learning with curriculum and art instruction. It provides multiple examples, sample formats, and suggestions for implementation. The book illustrates various means of observing and recording evidence of student art learning. An important resource for art teachers and schools reviewing assessment plans for their art programs. An excellent text for staff development seminars.

216 pgs. {1994} ISBN 0-937652-71-7
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Child Development

No. 295 | How Children Make Art: Lessons in Creativity from Home to School
By George Szekely

This book shows educators how to use ideas from home art and play activities as the basis for a school art program that is meaningful to children. The author presents descriptions and inspiring moments from a lifetime of studying children's home art—all to introduce readers to a wealth of teaching possibilities. Learn what happens when children entering the art room are treated as colleagues, bringing their own ideas to an art curriculum that doesn't overshadow them with adult art plans and teachings about adult artists.

224 pgs. {2006} ISBN 0-8077-4719-X
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No. 221 | Child Development in Art
Anna M. Kindler, Editor

Child Development in Art is a unique resource for early childhood, elementary, and secondary teachers interested in better understanding of artistic and aesthetic potential of their students and exploring art pedagogy sensitive and responsive to learners' characteristics and needs. The authors contributing to this book come from fields of psychology, sociology, communication, cultural studies and art education. Together, they offer a comprehensive account of current knowledge about artistic and aesthetic development.

210 pgs. {1997} ISBN 0-937652-77-6
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No. 297 | Impact of Early Art Experiences on Literacy Development
By Kathy Danko-McGhee and Ruslan Slutsky

Kathy Danko-McGhee and Ruslan Slutsky present a compelling look at the link between children's artwork and literacy development in this easy-to-read, indispensable primer for parents and educators alike. By providing a range of art experiences and alternative ways to teach children critical thinking and visual perception skills, Danko-McGhee and Slutsky paint a vivid picture of the role that the visual arts play in early childhood development. The two examine the need for new thinking and a departure from traditional literacy exercises: "It is clear that a pedagogical shift must take place in our homes and schools if we are to meet the literacy needs of today's young learners. This requires thinking 'out of the box' and coming up with new ways to deal with an old problem." The Impact of Early Art Experiences on Literacy Development lays the foundation for rethinking the way that we engage young children in early literacy learning.

 

122 pgs. {2007} ISBN 978-1-890160-37-1
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No. 300 | Memory and Experience, Thematic Drawings by Qatari, Taiwanese, Malaysian, and American Children
By Al Hurwitz and Karen Lee Carroll

The largest collection of children’s drawings made in response to a single method of instruction. The Lowenfeldian approach of stimulating pre-visualization prior to drawing through the use of guiding questions was used to help children in four countries identify personal memories and experiences relating to 10 themes. Contextual information sheds light on how the drawing study was conducted in four different cultural contexts. Five experts responded to this collection of approximately 650 drawings. While each author views the work through a distinct lens, collectively they explore issues of drawing development, cultural context, stories children tell, the influence of popular and visual culture, and drawing methodology.

This book promises to delight and inform those interested in children’s drawings, especially elementary classroom teachers, elementary art educators, students preparing to teach, researchers, and teachers interested in initiating international exchanges of student artwork.

 


320 pgs. {2008} ISBN 978-1-890160-39-5
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Classroom Practices

No. 226 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Art in High School
Pamela G. Taylor, B. Stephen Carpenter, II, Christine Ballengee-Morris, Billie Sessions

The authors present works of art, artmaking skills, and ways of knowing as catalysts for learning across the traditional disciplinary boundaries in high school. Both timely and enduring, this is the book that will inspire and support the work of veteran, new, and pre-service high school art teachers. The book includes issues, theories, and practices related to high school curriculum, advocacy, classroom management, assessment, cultural understanding, idea-based instructional strategies, team-teaching, technology, visual culture, and student-initiated learning. The authors draw upon their own experiences and those of other high school art teachers to create a motivating and provocative text that challenges readers to critically and continually reflect, collaborate, read, and research their own interdisciplinary thinking, teaching, and learning processes.

174 pgs. {2006} ISBN 1-890160-35-0
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No. 243 | Interdisciplinary Art Education: Building Bridges to Connect Disciplines and Cultures
Mary Stokrocki, Editor

This book is about interdisciplinary approaches to art education. The concept of interdisciplinary learning is one that should be scrutinized closely and research and practical applications are needed to inform the field about best practices. This book contains both theoretical concepts and practical suggestions for curriculum construction and assessment for interdisciplinary education that incorporate the visual arts as good and worthwhile, while at the same time, proposing ways in which art can be integrated holistically with other subjects. In addition, there are a variety of research methodologies found in the different chapters and a range of subjects, such as science, social studies, anthropology, and the performing arts, for which interdisciplinary concepts have been applied effectively and appear to be coherent, complete, and appropriate. All those who anticipate incorporating interdisciplinary practices into their school reform efforts should consider examples found in this book, about how to keep the integrity of art education theory and practice and at the same time construct new ways of reconfiguring the field of art education.

243 pgs. {2005} ISBN  1-890160-31-8
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No. 219 | Student Behavior in Art Classrooms: The Dynamics of Discipline
Frank Susi

This book helps you solve problems 5 ways! It offers practical suggestions and ideas; helps to connect instruction and student behavior; outlines strategies for preventing misbehavior; suggests approaches when discipline problems occur; summarizes research studies in thousands of classrooms to help understand misbehavior and prevent it. Example topics include: Setting rules, Monitoring, Arranging the artroom, Eye contact, Teacher behavior, Ownership, Preventive practices, Contracts, Keeping records, Punishment, Violent behavior, and much more. A cardinal resource for teacher preparation programs, student teachers, and staff development libraries.

41 pgs. {1995} ISBN 0-937652-75-X
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No. 240 | Safety In the Artroom
Charles A. Qualley

An invaluable resouce for art educators, this best seller has been completely revised for today's art-making space. This all-new edition will keep you up-to-date on hazardous materials, tools, and procedures; with web links to the most current health and safety information. References to downloadable forms and checklists under Web Resources on this site are included. The practical plan outlined for implementing an artroom saftey program makes this book a must for anyone who teaches art.

120 pgs. {2005} ISBN 0-87192-718-7
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Community/Collaboration Resources

No. 258  | Spheres of Possibility: Linking Service-Learning and the Visual Arts
Carol S. Jeffers

Service-learning can assume many shapes and serve multiple purposes. It can be used to develop in students a sense of belonging to their community, an understanding of the diversity of their surroundings, a deeper empathy for those less privileged than themselves, a sense of social responsibility, and a greater understanding and respect for the knowledge that is created and resides in communities that are often less visible to the public eye. Service-learning is clothed in a patchwork quilt, stitching together, a montage of questions, of stories and revelations, a collaged narrative that is comforting and discomforting, yet remains elegant, if frayed at the edges. These are lessons here for all of us in service learning to enjoy, whether our discipline lies within the visual arts or not.

160  pgs. {2005}  ISBN 1-890160-32-6
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No. 277 | Built Environment Education in Art Education
Joanne K. Guilfoil and Alan R. Sandler, Editors

Co-editors Joanne K. Guilfoil and Alan R. Sandler have brought together an informative and inspiring array of materials for teachers who wish to give more attention to architecture and the built environment. Contributors to this anthology identify major issues and offer diverse views about the meanings of environments-multicultural, feminist, ecological, social and personal. They offer guides for analyzing environments, including concepts from art, urban planning, architectural history and criticism. Several chapters treat the classroom and community as contexts for reflective and creative learning, for individual and collaborative activities. There are provocative chapters about homes built by "homeless" people, the values articulated in school architecture, the constructive activities of children, and research on teaching youngsters about historical preservation. Teachers of art have a special obligation to address the aesthetic and human consequences of architecture and the built environment. Those consequences are not trivial. They are evident in how people perceive, think about and treat environments—and ultimately, each other. That is the central theme in this anthology and a major lesson art educators should teach.

246 pgs. {1999} ISBN 0-890160-05-9
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No. 208 | Beyond the School: Community and Institutional Partnerships in Art Education
Rita L. Irwin and Anna M. Kindler, Editors

The themes of collaboration, partnership, and community are central to this anthology. The text offers encouragement and words of wisdom born out of experience and careful reflection to guide development of new alliances drawing on and strengthening communities through an arts involvement. It presents a strong rationale for collaborative partnerships that extend arts education beyond the school boundaries by demonstrating benefits that stem from such collaborative initiatives. This anthology does not undermine the value and importance of formal, systematic art education in school settings; it explores ways in which learning that begins at school can be extended and supported by resources that reside within the community, highlighting ways in which learning can be enriched through the participation and involvement of new, outside partners able to contribute expertise, insight, and funds not readily available in schools.

100 pgs. {1999} ISBN 1-890160-09-1
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Gender/Multicultural Resources

No. 290 | Women Art Educators V: Conversations Across Time
Kit Grauer, Rita L. Irwin, Enid Zimmerman, Editors

Includes the written and/or illustrated work of 33 art educators. The three sections on remembering, revisioning, and reconsidering issues contain themes such as historical and contemporary accounts of women artists and art educators, teaching in non-formal contexts, mentoring, healing, friendships, intercultural women's concerns, empowerment, spirituality, and retirement.

272 pgs. {2003} ISBN 1-55056-946-5
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No. 275 | Multicultural Artworlds: Enduring, Evolving, and Overlapping Traditions
Mary Erickson and Bernard Young, Editors

This book has three foci that guide art educators in addressing these important concerns: 1) multicultural art education, 2) alternative artworlds, and 3) the maintenance and evolution of art traditions. Attention to these foci help guide teachers of art in developing art curricula that are inclusive, that promote high standards of art achievement, and that are culturally sensitive. Multicultural Artworlds offers a rationale, a model curriculum unit, and sample lessons for guiding students in investigating key people, places, activities, and ideas of some of the historical and contemporary artworlds that make up the complex art traditions of North America. The first section presents foundations for multicultural art education. The second has 15 artworld-centered lessons developed by practicing elementary, secondary, and university art educators. Section three includes resources for teaching one multicultural, artworld-centered curriculum unit.

158 pgs. {2002} ISBN 1-890160-20-2
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No. 281 | Beyond the Traditional in Art: Facing a Pluralistic Society
Robert J. Saunders, Editor

Beyond the Traditional in Art: Facing a Pluralistic Society, includes discussion of issues that range from clarifying multicultural terminology through the aesthetics and art criticism of non-Western art, the possibility of a multicultural art canon, teacher preparation, strategies and orientations in planning multicultural curriculum in art, authenticity in multicultural art examples and projects, exchange exhibits of children's art, policy and politics of multiculturalism, evaluation, and non-Western art in museum collections. It has relevance for opening classroom dialogue on these issues in courses for teacher preparation in multiculturalism in art education and for providing the discourse by which students can make their own resolutions before entering the field.

160 pgs. {1998} ISBN 1-890160-07-5
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No. 239 |Gender Issues in Art Education: Content, Contexts, and Strategies
Georgia Collins and Renee Sandell, Editors

Gender Issues, as its complete title suggests, is divided into three areas of discussion—content, context, and strategies. The first, content, is defined as the parent fields or disciplines of art education—art studio, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics. Contexts is the who and where of art education acknowledging the increasing number of diverse populations being taught and the types of delivery systems and settings in which they are taught. Strategies describes models and means of improving the understanding of gender and achieving equity in and through art education. Within the parameters of each section the articles are diverse allowing the editors to present several aspects of the gender theme from each section perspective.

164 pgs. {1996} ISBN 0-937652-85-7
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No. 230 | Trends in Art Education From Diverse Cultures
Heta Kauppinen and Read Diket, Editors

This anthology brings 30 art education writers from 21 countries: Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas. Authors trace historical perspectives and the role of cross-cultural influences. Another section describes trends developing in the contemporary world and a third section examines cross-cultural and multicultural issues. Required reading for art educators interested in global perspectives on art education. An important resource and reference for every library.

213 pgs. {1995} ISBN 0-937652-79-2
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No. 245 | Art, Culture and Ethnicity
Bernard Young, Editor

A landmark study addressing the need to focus on the rich heritage of minority ethnic groups, including Black, Hispanic, and Native American, among others. A compilation of 20 chapters on a variety of aspects of art education for students of varied ethnic backgrounds. Topics include the role of the minority family in children's education; portrait of a Black art teacher of preadolescents in the inner city; the art of Northwest Coast peoples; an Eskimo school; teaching art to disadvantaged Black students; and many others.

278 pgs. {1990} ISBN 0-937652-54-7
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History of Art Education Resources

No. 210 | Intricate Palette: Working the Ideas of Elliot Eisner
P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Jonathan Matthews, editors and published by Prentice Hall

With contributions from some of the leading figures in the field, this is an insightful analysis and evaluation of the "intricate palette" that is the work of Elliot Eisner, through a reexamination of Eisner's seminal writings. After an introduction to Eisner's basic ideas and their origins in his personal experience, the heart of the book comprises four sections that address Eisner's impact on curriculum; qualitative evaluation and research; the arts in education; and teaching, teacher education, and reform. A reflective final chapter serves as an epilogue, providing observations from all of the previous chapters. An excellent text for graduate-level Curriculum, Art Education, and Qualitative Research courses.

288 pgs. {2004} ISBN 0-13-112272-X
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No. 236 | Writings in Art Education: Recipients of the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award 1970-1999
Paul E. Bolin, Editor

This book is a compilation of the published articles selected to receive the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award between the years 1970 and 1999. The Manuel Barkan Award was initiated by the National Art Education Association in 1970. The award was established to honor Dr. Manuel Barkan (1913-1970), a prominent and influential art educator throughout the 1950s and '60s, and faculty member in Art Education at The Ohio State University from 1947 until his death in 1970. Dr. Barkan's scholarly dedication and thoughtful insights have left a legacy for the field through the many people he has influenced and vital ideas he proposed and published. Manuel Barkan's significant contributions to art education through his involvement in the 1965 Penn State Seminar and other professional venues helped to establish a direction for art education that affects the field even today. The work of these authors individually, and now collectively, offers a valuable view of conditions in the field of art education throughout a period of 30 years. They reflect conditions and thoughts of the time in which they were authored and published, and help us to trace and explore connections between salient ideas in our field and significant contextual matters of the times in which they were written.

217 pgs. {2005} ISBN 1-890160-30-X
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No. 287 | Barkan
Mary Zahner

Barkan is the first book to give the reader an in-depth feel for art education's struggle to define itself. It reveals the source and development of key concepts influencing the theory and practice of art education in the mid-twentieth century. It depicts Manuel Barkan's prominent roll in the shaping the character of contemporary art education. "The argument continues to rest on the fruitless dichotomous level of appreciation or creative expression, skills or free expression, esthetic or social values, fine arts or industrial arts, handicraft or machine made objects, practical value or leisure time interest, integration or segregation, for the talented or the average. . ." To do this, says Barkan, "art educators need to enter into thoughtful and disciplined modifications of the teaching programs they conduct,—disciplined in the sense that they reflect upon their purposes and evaluate their action as teachers in terms of these purposes."

248 pgs. {2003} ISBN 1-890160-22-9
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No. 276 | The Flower Teachers: Stories for a New Generation
Candace Jesse Stout

They were the vanguard faculty who welcomed racial integration and stood waiting as school buses boarded their students, carrying some to the suburbs, some to the projects of the inner city. In their classrooms, children saw human-kind launch into space and walk on the moon. Now, at the opening of a new century, as seasoned veterans and master teachers, they are experiencing the wonder of the World Wide Web and the social, pedagogical, and technological complexities that come with it. For this generation, the sweep of the educational pendulum has been long, deep, and pronounced.

248 pgs. {2002} ISBN 1-890160-21-0
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No. 285 | In Their Own Words: The Development of Doctoral Study in Art Education
James Hutchens, Editor

"In their own words" is the key to this anthology. The history of NAEA coincides with the expansion of graduate art education. From 1941 a number of universities offering the doctorate greatly affected the concepts that have driven our profession. It is a first-hand account of the development of doctoral study in these institutions. Authors were asked to consider concepts which guided curriculum of various sites and how they have changed over time, to discuss relationships between theory and practice and to chronicle the growth of scholarship in art education at their respective institutions, and to consider cross-fertilization among art education leaders such as: Frederick M. Logan, Judith Burton, Brent Wilson, Arthur Efland, June King McFee, Elliot W. Eisner, Ivan E. Johnson, Sally McRorie, Jack Taylor, D. Jack Davis, Christine Marmei Thompson , Steve Thunder-McGuire, William McCarter, Gilbert Clark, Guy Hubbard, Enid Zimmerman, David Ecker, Jerome Hausman, Jean L. Langan, Ronald W. Neperud, Graeme Chalmers, Elizabeth J. Sacca, Robert J. Parker, and Mary Ann Stankiewicz. Educators are also encouraged to order extra copies for library, reference, and historical collections, including staff development libraries and teacher resource centers.

192 pgs. {2001} ISBN 1-890160-16-4
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No. 280 | Histories of Community-Based Art Education
Kristin G. Congdon, Doug Blandy, Paul E. Bolin, Editors

The history of community-based art education is often associated with children, youth, and adults coming together in formal and informal cultural organizations. These places can serve as spaces for public discourse about art and other issues of mutual concern, including the traditional and popular arts. These diverse art objects and practices function, in part, as catalysts for dialogue about individual and group identity, local and national concerns, and ultimately the pursuit of democracy. Hearing the stories of others should cause us to pause and reflect on our own position in the world. What stories are woven into the fabric of who we are? What tales from our past have shaped and continue to form our lives today? Educators are also encouraged to order extra copies for library, reference, and historical collections, including staff development libraries and teacher resource centers.

200 pgs. {2001} ISBN 1-890160-08-3
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No. 273 | Exploring the Legends: Guideposts to the Future
Sylvia K. Corwin, Editor

In the history of U.S. art education, the era that followed World War II was also an age of heroes. What made the individuals celebrated in this volume into the legends that they have become? There were four leading ideas or planks that in many respects formed the platform that characterized art education after the war. Ziegfeld's goal of promoting art in daily living. This is the view that art is a part of the daily life of the individual, that art belongs to the common man, the man-in-the-street, that it is not the exclusive province of social or intellectual elites. He believed that art education should help shape a democratic art for a democratic society. Lowenfeld's goal of cultivating the child's expressive impulses through art education, thus to cultivate psychological health, freedom, and democracy. Another is the belief that art education does not exist to create artists, but well adjusted individuals. Art is less a body of subject matter than a developmental activity. In this regard Lowenfeld's instrumental use of art was compatible with Ziegfeld's. D'Amico's goal of cultivating art within art education, especially modern art. Modern art is desirable in art education not only because it values originality in expression but also because in encouraging creativeness it is a socially progressive influence in all aspects of society. Arnheim's goal of cultivating the cognitive abilities of individuals through the arts because they are principally cognitive endeavors. Art education is primarily concerned with understanding and thinking in the various media comprising the visual arts.

109 pgs. {2001} ISBN 1-890160-04-0
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No. 284 | The Autobiographical Lectures of Some Prominent Art Educators
Ralph Raunft, Editor

In an age that skeptically looks at the heroes of today and yesterday, and often unduly canonizes media or cultural superstars, The Autobiographical Lectures call art educators to acknowledge the contributions and lives of extraordinary people. Thus it becomes crucial for those involved in education to identify those persons that constitute examples of thoughtful, reflecting, and influencing. The heroes of the past...and the heroes of the present, both sung and unsung, must be studied and their means of influence understood and reconstituted so that they speak to the present milieu. For seasoned art educators, these lectures act as a collective memory-not only to motivate nostalgia, but also to give additional meaning and context to their own life history. These stories are not just the transmission of autobiographical information, but a social dialogue developed between the teller of the story and the audience that maintains a social bond. Lectures should be in every art education library collection for future students and researchers.

370 pages; {2000} ISBN 1-890160-15-6
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No. 274 | Remembering Others: Making Invisible Histories of Art Education Visible
Paul E. Bolin, Doug Blandy, and Kristin G. Congdon, Editors

The anthology consists of 15 research chapters and 6 testimonials divided into three sections: formal education, community arts and museums, and folk group settings. The chapters and testimonials will assist readers in understanding the role of historical context in teaching and learning, issues associated with the representation of people and groups over time, the history of school culture as compared and contrasted with other defining cultural characteristics, the importance of role models, and historical methods associated with contextual research.

228 pgs. {2000} ISBN 1-890160-02-4
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No. 249 | A 19th Century Government Drawing Master: The Walter Smith Reader
F. Graeme Chalmers

This Reader is about the making of a Victorian drawing master, about his "weary years of hard work," on both sides of the Atlantic; the testing of his theories, his labors, his wisdom, and his fruitful service. It begins at birth and ends beyond death "with [some] halting place[s] between." Because Smith has been widely acknowledged as the leading 19th century advocate for art education in the public schools of America, this Reader contextualizes brief excerpts from his writing and interweaves them in a critical biography. Walter Smith was the first art educator to be front page news in a major American newspaper, was the first to design and produce teacher and student texts for a comprehensive art program from Grades 1 through 12, was the first American City Supervisor of Art Education (Boston), was the first American State Director of Art Education (Massachusetts), was the first American Art Education Professor, and was the first, and possibly only, art educator to be appointed to, and fired from, positions as City Supervisor, State Director, and Art Education Professor.

176 pgs. {1999} ISBN 1-890160-13-X
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No. 267 | National Art Education Association: Our History Celebrating 50 Years, 1947-1997
John Michael, Editor

Includes chapters from the profession's eminent scholars who provided leadership and guidance in NAEA's history. The authors include John Michael, Ivan Johnson (NAEA President 1955-1957), Charles Dorn (NAEA President 1975-1977 and NAEA Executive Secretary 1962-1970), Charles Qualley (NAEA President 1987-1989), Susan Shoaff-Ballanger; D. Jack Davis and Marylou Kuhn, (former Studies in Art Education editors), and Eugene Grigsby (Pacific Vice President 1972-1974). Extensive listings include awardees, conventions, officers, dates, many documents and archival photos, and many other details from NAEA's history. It should be in every art education library collection for future students and researchers.

254 pgs. {1997} ISBN 1-890160-00-8
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No. 209 | The Complete Lanier: A Professional Profile
James S. Lanier

"Vincent Lanier does more than raise uncomfortable questions. He is a very skillful phrase-maker and has a way of puncturing educational platitudes that few can equal," said Edmund Feldman. "I think Vincent is one of our best polemicists because he enjoys deflating pompousness wherever it shows up. Over a long teaching career he has witnessed a good many art educational infatuations. Apparently it pains him to see us taken in by purveyors of instructional snake oil. That pain, of course, is the obverse of a kind of love. Underneath Lanier's crusty exterior lies a large deposit of affection for our profession and an irrepressible idealism about what art can accomplish for the good of humanity..." This book, a professional profile of a senior art educator, Vincent Lanier, is an annotation of his published writings, a personal and professional biography noting the main influences on the subject's ideas and writings, including the influence of his ideas on the field, and significant ideas as found in published writings. "... Frankly," says Feldman, "I'm anxious to learn who or what has become the latest target of his righteous wrath. When Lanier lectures, no sacred cow, no educational fetish, is safe."

48 pgs. {1998} ISBN 1-890160-06-7
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No. 206 | Viktor Lowenfeld Speaks On Art and Creativity
Lambert Brittain, Editor

Nine speeches by Lowenfeld on creativity, scientific and social values, children's art expression, and sensitivity.

64 pgs. {1968} ISBN 0-937652-26-1
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Ideas and Ideals

No. 264 | Visual Culture in the Art Class: Case Studies
Paul Duncum

This anthology offers reports from teachers on a range of classroom and community pursuits informed by studies of visual culture. All of these teachers are rethinking the purposes and scope of art education. Many of their narratives include theoretical ideas along with significant details about teaching methods and indicators of student learning. This anthology demonstrates that studies initiated under the banner of visual culture take many forms in practice, may have different theoretical emphases, and are not entirely new in every respect. In the context of art education, they provide an occasion to students and teachers to consider who has authority in deciding what counts as “art,” when, in what contexts, with what consequences, and for whom.

194 pgs. (2006) ISBN 1-890160-33-4
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No. 223 | Culture and the Arts in Education: Critical Essays on Shaping Human Experience
Ralph A. Smith

This collection of Ralph Smith’s writings provides a comprehensive overview of his extraordinary contributions to understanding the importance of aesthetics in education. These essays record his lifelong efforts to construct a defensible rationale for the arts in general education and a workable curriculum for art education in our public schools (K–16). The topics covered range from liberal education to arts education, the relationship of art, aesthetics, and aesthetic education to teaching and curriculum, the arts and the humanities, and cultural diversity.

177 pgs. {2005} ISBN 0-8077-4654-1
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No. 215 | Video Art for the Classroom
George and Ilona Szekely, Editors

This anthology features contributions from over 18 video artists and educators. Each contributing author offers a diverse approach to the use of video art with students. This book offers examples spanning a broad range of various technological levels, and projects ranging from the shoebox "camera" to actual animation, documentary, broadcast journalism, and more. Each chapter relays a distinct account of how video art was and can be used successfully in the K-12 classroom or community to make art come alive—regardless of budget or technological savvy.

204 pgs. {2005} ISBN 1-890160-27-X
Nonmember Price: $25.00
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No. 293 | Semiotics and Visual Culture: Sights, Signs, and Significance
Deborah L. Smith-Shank, Editor

Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols in culture. Anything can be a sign, and most things are, most of the time. Signs are not stagnant and the meanings we attribute to them change over time as the contexts and our own understandings change. Semioticians bring to their study of signs and meanings, their work in disciplines as different as education, neuroscience, botany, mathematics, psychology, ecology, music, and art.

154 pgs. {2004} ISBN 1-890160-25-3
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No. 289 | Teaching Visual Culture
Kerry Freedman

Global culture is rapidly shifting from text-based communication to image saturation. Visual culture is everywhere: on television, in museums, in magazines, in movie theaters, on billboards, on the internet, and in shopping malls. As a result, learning about the complexities of visual culture is becoming ever more critical to human development. This is the first book to focus on teaching visual culture. Drawing on social, cognitive, and curricular theory foundations, Freedman offers a conceptual framework for teaching the visual arts from a cultural standpoint. Chapters discuss: visual culture in a democracy; aesthetics in curriculum; philosophical and historical considerations; recent changes in the field of art history; connections between art, student development, and cognition; interpretation of art inside and outside of school; the role of fine arts in curriculum; technology and teaching; television as the national curriculum; student artistic production and assessment, and much more.

189 pgs. {2003} ISBN 0-8077-4371-2
Nonmember Price: $22.00
Member Price: $18.00

No. 286 | The Arts and the Creation of Mind
Elliot W. Eisner

A collaborative initiative with Yale University Press to distribute The Arts and the Creation of Mind, one aim of the text is "to dispel the idea that the arts are somehow intellectually undemanding, emotive rather than reflective operations done with the hand, unattached to the head." Eisner's straightforward, accessible language takes the reader into chapters such as: What the Arts Teach and How It Shows; Describing Learning in the Visual Arts; The Educational Uses of Assessment and Evaluation in the Arts; What Education Can Learn From the Arts; Agenda for Research in Arts Education, and more.

Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind. Eisner describes how various forms of thinking are evoked, developed, and refined through the arts. These forms of thinking are more helpful in dealing with the ambiguities and uncertainties of daily life than are the formally structured curricula that are employed today in schools.

288 pgs. Hardbound {2002} ISBN 0-300-09523-6
Nonmember Price: $35.00
Member Price: $30.00

No. 272 | Art and Cognition
Arthur Efland

In this in-depth text, the preeminent art education scholar Arthur Efland not only sheds light on the problems inhibiting art education, but also demonstrates how art contributes to the overall development of the mind. Delineating how the development of artistic interests and ability is an important aspect of cognition and learning, he shows how art helps individuals construct cultural meaning, a crucial component of social communication—a foundation for lifelong learning that includes the arts. In Art and Cognition, Arthur Efland: explains the cognitive nature of learning in the visual arts—debunking the persistent perception of the arts as emotive only; looks at recent understandings of the mind and intelligence to determine how they bear on questions of the intellectual status of the arts; explains how a cognitively oriented conception of teaching will change the ways that the arts are taught; discusses the ways in which new developments in cognitive science can be applied to art education; describes how the arts can be used to develop cognitive ability in children; identifies implications for art curricula, teaching practices, and the reform of general education. Topics: The Uneasy Connection Between Art & Psychology • Artistic Development in Cognitive Developmental Theories • The Cognitive Revolution & Conceptions of Learning • Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Learning in the Arts • Obstacles to Art Learning & Their Assessment • Imagination in Cognition • A Cognitive Argument for the Arts

216 pgs. {2002} ISBN 0-8077-4218-X
Nonmember Price: $22.00
Member Price: $18.00

No. 268 | Student Art Exhibitions: New Ideas and Approaches
Bill Zuk and Robert Dalton, Editors

The display of student art is much more than pictures on a wall and an eye pleasing arrangement; this is a text that conveys a great deal about the ideas and accomplishments of both teachers and students. New thinking on goals and methods of student art exhibitions allows us to more thoughtfully construct that text and invites educators to share 'best practices.' Student Art Exhibitions: New Ideas and Approaches includes sections on: cultural and historical perspectives; students as curators; planning and presenting an exhibition; pedagogical exhibitions and advocacy; and new venues on the web.

88 pgs. {2001} ISBN 1-890160-18-0
Nonmember Price: $18.00
Member Price: $12.00

No. 218 | New Technologies and Art Education: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice
Diane Gregory, Editor

This new anthology explores an overview of how technologies are used in the classroom; innovative uses of the new technologies such as Hypermedia, Internet and the Worldwide Web, distance learning and instructional video; an examination of staff development, teacher preparation, and instructional uses; the use of interactive technologies with aesthetics, criticism and art history; cautions and appropriate uses of technology in the classroom.

189 pgs. {1997} ISBN 0-937652-74-1
Nonmember Price: $22.00
Member Price $18.00

No. 207 | Educationally Interpretive Exhibition: Rethinking the Display of Student Art
Kelly Bass, Teresa Cotner, Elliot Eisner, Tom Yacoe and Lee Hanson

Rethinking the Display of Student Art focuses upon an educational model, rather than on a gallery model. The interpretive exhibition of student artwork is intended to help people understand the relationships between thinking and the creation of visual art. The 28 full-color images throughout the booklet illustrate how the exhibition was arranged and constructed; the final section of 47 "General and Theoretical Quotes" is especially helpful for literature pertaining to cognitive and artistic development. It makes a useful contribution to arts education, advocacy, and educational reform i.e., state standards, frameworks, and assessment.

20 pgs. {1997} ISBN 0-937652-99-7
Nonmember Price: $15.00
Member Price: $10.00

No. 253 | Aesthetics for Young People
Ronald Moore, Editor

This book is loaded with "user-friendly aesthetics." It contains explicit instructional strategies and learning outcomes with numerous illustrations of classroom techniques. Extraordinarily wide in scope, it deals with educational issues for all levels—pre-school through high school. This book deliberately sets out to debunk the idea that aesthetics is too hard for kids, or too esoteric to fit into the K-12 curriculum; it shows how aesthetics can be approachable, interesting, and worthwhile for all children. First of its kind, Aesthetics for Young People is the only collection of detailed essays by aesthetics experts in philosophy, art education, and museology for the education profession. A unique textbook for teacher preparation programs and key resource for any staff development program.

127 pgs. {1995} ISBN 0-937652-73-3
Nonmember Price: $18.00
Member Price: $12.00

No. 255 | Excellence II: The Continuing Quest in Art Education
Ralph Smith

This publication broadens the search for excellence, bringing into focus developments that have challenged art educators. Modernism and Postmodernism, Multiculturalism, and Cultural Particularism are among the chapters of the volume. The book addresses specific classroom needs and questions, this time with applications for the K-12 curriculum in contrast to the emphasis on secondary grades in the original version. Contains a prototype excellence curriculum for art education—essential for staff and curriculum development. Available as text for teacher preparation programs.

228 pgs. {1995} ISBN 0-937652-87-3
Nonmember Price: $22.00
Member Price: $15.00


Lifelong Learning

No. 202 | Community Connections: Intergenerational Links in Art Education
Angela M. La Porte, Editor

Intergenerational programs have become widespread since the mid-20th century, emphasizing "activities that increase cooperation and exchange between any two generations. Typically, they involve interaction between young and old in which there is a sharing of skills, knowledge, and experience" . They developed in response to concerns that different age groups had become socially isolated from one another. Sociologists and gerontologists became convinced of the social and psychological benefits of intergenerational activities, such as elevated self-esteem and sense of autonomy among seniors and improved attitudes of each age cohort towards the other.

161 pgs. {2004} ISBN 1-890160-26-1
Nonmember Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00

No. 278 | Crossroads: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning
Dale H. Fitzner and Madeline M. Rugh, Editors

This timely book focuses on continuing education, the aging process, and implications for growth and renewal in later life. Leading art educators share their philosophies for motivating older adults to explore art, widen their views, and develop skill, self-confidence, and enjoyment of the art process. The authors offer examples and details of numerous successful art education projects with older adults. Remarks by students who comment on their personal learning discoveries are also included. Art educators who work with special populations will find help in the chapters on instructing older adults deemed physically challenged or who live in special care facilities.

168 pgs. {1998} ISBN 0-937652-96-2
Nonmember Price: $22.00
Member Price: $15.00


NAEA Advocacy Flyers and Brochures

No. 403 | Briefing Papers

"Legislative and Policy Perspectives: Arts Education"
"Legislative Perspectives: A Checklist for Action"
"Developmentally Appropriate Practices for the Visual Arts Education of Young Children"

Briefing papers are designed to help clarify specific issues in art education. An excellent resource for policy and curriculum development. Packets of 50 only. Please indicate which packet(s) you want.

Nonmember Price: 50/$10.00
Member Price: 50/$5.00

No. 400 | Flyer Series

"Assessing Curriculum Guides for Art Education"
"Business and Community Leaders"
"Deans and Departmental Chairpersons"
"Elementary Principals"
"Fine Arts Credits"
"High School Guidance Counselors"
"Lifelong Learning"
"Middle School Principals"
"Parents"
"Quality Art Education: Goals for Schools"
"Recruiting Multiethnic Art Educators"
"Retired Art Educator Affiliate"
"The Role of the Art Supervisor"
"Secondary Principals"
"School Board Members"
"Staffing for Excellence in Elementary and Secondary Schools"
"Why Art Education"

Flyers designed to help audiences outside art education evaluate and improve art programs in their schools. Packets of 50 only. Please indicate which packet(s) you want.

Nonmember Price: 50/$10.00
Member Price: 50/$5.00

No. 414 | Quality Art Education: An Interpretation

Concise document that clearly and convincingly scrutinizes each component of the National Art Education Association's Goals and makes clear the reasons for NAEA's position on art education. {1986} ISBN 0-937652-45-8

Nonmember Price: $4.00
Member Price: $2.00

No. 411 | Youth Art Month

Full of helpful suggestions for celebrating Youth Art Month, this brochure can help you plan programs to demonstrate the value of art in education. Co-sponsored by the NAEA and the Council for Art Education.

No charge for single copy; donated by the Council for Art Education.


NAEA Archival Series

No. 247 | Instant Art, Instant Culture: The Unspoken Policy for American Schools
Laura H. Chapman

Chapman critically examines the reasons for the token educational programs many schools offer in all the arts, including music, dance, and theater, but with particular emphasis on the visual arts.  She writes with conviction on the importance of effecting change in attitudes and school practices that actually prevent many children from studying arts on a regular basis. Chapman devotes much of the book to providing suggestions for improving school instruction in the arts.  Among the topics covered are:  What should be taught in an arts program and who should teach it; why a school curriculum should include the arts, sciences, and humanities as core subjects for all students; how to improve teacher education programs; what models for change have been suggested by various panels and federal groups, and how effective they would be.

224 pgs. {Reprinted 2005} ISBN 0-8077-2722-9
Nonmember Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00

No. 269 | Aesthetics and Criticism In Art Education
Ralph Smith, Editor

Aesthetics And Criticism In Art Education was the first book of its kind to indicate the relevance of aesthetics, art history, and art criticism to the theory and practice of art education. It contributed to subsequent interest in aesthetic education and anticipated one of the major developments in art education during the eighties and nineties, the approach known as discipline-based art education that emphasizes grounding instruction in the four interrelated disciplines of art making, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics. The opening section explains the meaning of aesthetics, sets out the structure of knowledge in the arts, indicates how subject matter in the teaching of art is manipulated by a number of characteristic verbal operations, and discusses the relevance of aesthetics to research. Three of these operations—defining, explaining, and evaluating—are then examined in later sections of the volume.

508 pgs. {Reprinted 2002}
Nonmember Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00

No. 282 | Art & Ethnics
J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr

Art & Ethnics was "the first in-depth review of issues and reasons for representing the ethnic diversity of artists and art in our teaching, based on the author's own research, wisdom and skill as a teacher," says Laura Chapman. "A landmark and still relevant!" In this volume, you will find food for thought and practical information for teaching. Grigsby has identified major issues and offers insight about the meanings of diversity—ethnic understanding, cultural differences and models for students, religion, art heritage, protest components including three major aspects of ethnic art. Teachers of art have a special obligation to address cultural differences in their teaching. Those consequences are not trivial. Unless these differences in values and attitudes are bridged, the teacher will have a difficult time helping students grow in their own cultural art forms. That is the central theme in this book and a major lesson all art educators should teach.

147 pgs. {Reprinted 2000}
Nonmember Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00

No. 266 | Educating Artistic Vision
Elliot Eisner

An NAEA 1997 reprint of the classic art education text to celebrate NAEA's 50th Anniversary. Out of print until now, Educating Artistic Vision is an important text for future teachers and members as well as for libraries and staff development collections.

354 pgs. {Reprinted 1997}
Nonmember Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00

No. 270 | Becoming Human Through Art
Edmund Burke Feldman

An NAEA 1997 reprint of the classic art education text to celebrate NAEA's 50th Anniversary. Out of print until now, Becoming Human Through Art is an important text for future teachers and members as well as for libraries and staff development collections.

389 pgs. {Reprinted 1997}
Nonmember Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00

No. 237 | Understanding Children's Art for Better Teaching
Betty Lark-Horovitz, Hilda Present Lewis, and Mark Luca

Loaded with images of children's work, Understanding Children's Art is directed at early childhood, elementary, and middle level education. It contains a host of examples of practical research on children's art. Many chapters examine individual and cultural aspects; children's attitudes toward art; planning and teaching in the elementary school; creativity; and relating art to other areas of the curriculum. Recognized as one of the significant art education texts, it continues to provide rich insights for teaching and learning in our schools.

259 pgs. {Reprinted 1999}
Nonmember Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00

No. 220 | Readings in Discipline-based Art Education: A Literature of Educational Reform
Ralph A. Smith, Editor

This sourcebook is the result of more than 2 years of research by Smith with 42 chapters by prominent art educators-scholars, practitioners, and researchers. The reader will find an array of DBAE ideas and practice.

Contributors to this anthology identify major issues and offer indepth views about the meaning, interpretations, and characteristics of DBAE. They offer guides on artistic and aesthetic development, preservice and inservice for teachers, staff development, and teacher preparation. Several chapters examine the functions of museums and the evaluation of museum education programs. There are provocative chapters about learning outcomes; teaching art history; types of art criticism; issues of gender, and multiculturalism; and the relationship of art education and postmodernism.

429 pgs. {1999} ISBN 1-890160-12-1
Nonmember Price: $25.00
Member Price: $20.00


NAEA Imprinted Products

No. 530 | The 7.5" x 3.75" "Support School Art Programs" Sticker

Full-color, self-sticking, vinyl zip-strips, 7.5"w x 3.75"h, screen printed. It is a way to "advocate" art education programs as a member of the profession. USE STICKERS as handouts at parent meetings, distribution at student exhibits, accompany letters to decision makers, as a part of proposals to expand programs, as passouts at lectures on art education, make available at student art demonstrations, for handouts at teacher meetings, as a rider in mailings to parents, place on the visitors brochure table at district office, in the annual report on the art program.

Nonmember Price: $2.00 each
Member Price: $1.50 each
(25 or more $1.00 each members: $1.50 each nonmembers.)

No. 521 | NAEA Lapel Pin

Small gold rectangular pin (1/4" x 1/2"). Raised polished border and raised polished "NAEA" in center. Monies received are donated to the National Art Education Foundation.

Price: $15.00

No. 515 | "You Gotta Have Art" Tote Bags

Stylish and sturdy, this tote made from 50% recycled content is ideal for art supplies, books, shopping, or travel. Oversized (18" w x 17" h x 4" d), zippered polycanvas tote, imprinted in white with 'You Gotta Have Art' logo and ‘National Art Education Association’ below.

Specify color: Black, Cardinal Red, Purple, Turquoise, Blaze Orange, Brown

Nonmember Price: $18.00
Member Price: $15.00

 

No. 516 | "You Gotta Have Art" Button

A small accessory that makes a BIG statement! One-inch button with the message "You Gotta Have Art."

Specify color: Red, Orange, Citrus Green, Purple

Nonmember Price: $.75
Member Price: $.50

(25 or more $.30 each members: $.50 each nonmembers.)

 

No. 517 | "You Gotta Have Art" Apron

Protect your clothes in style while supporting art education. Full-length (22" w x 30" h) adjustable apron with two front pockets featuring white 'You Gotta Have Art' logo and 'National Art Education Association’ below the logo. 100% cotton with Teflon finish for added stain protection. Machine washable.

Color: Black.

Nonmember Price: $18.00
Member Price: $15.00


NAEA Invited Scholar Series

No. 279 | Cultural Diversity and the Structure and Practice of Art Education
June King McFee

The author offers a rich historical collection of papers, lectures, and personal reflections on changing social perceptions, cultures and subcultures, aesthetic trends, and focal points in art education, theory, and practice over the past four decades in order to better understand the profession today from the perspective of its social science foundations. It provides valuable insights into our history as a people, especially noting the contributions of the civil rights and women's movements, along with personal reflections on the effects of such social reforms on professional/academic roles.

200 pgs. {1998} ISBN 0-937652-76-8
Nonmember Price: $22.00
Member Price: $15.00

No. 227 | Thinking in Art: A Philosophical Approach to Art Education
Charles M. Dorn

Thinking in Art is the starting place for anyone writing or revising an art curriculum! It uses a philosophical approach to help art teachers test their own educational values in order to design art curricula which goes beyond requiring all students to do the same thing in the same way according to the same timetable. Through the analysis of historical, philosophical, critical, and aesthetic systems, art teachers are shown how to link student creative thinking, critical thinking, and creative art making into the kinds of school learning the visual arts do best. An important curriculum text for every university art education program to help future teachers shape the design of their art curriculum.

180 pgs. {1994} ISBN 0-937652-69-5
Nonmember Price: $22.00
Member Price: $15.00

No. 205 | Revisitations: Ten Little Pieces on Art Education
Harlan Hoffa

Hoffa revisits 40 years as an art educator through a series of 10 previously published articles about topics germane to art education today: political correctness, multiculturalism, art and government, and his work with Barkan and Lowenfeld. Research in art education, the CEMREL project, the presidency of NAEA and advisor with the U.S. Office of Education, and insights about Kathy Bloom at the Arts and Humanities Program are among the "stories" told in this book.

80 pgs. {1994} ISBN 0-937652-70-9
Nonmember Price: $15.00
Member Price: $11.00

No. 212 | Collaboration in Art Education
Al Hurwitz

An eloquent "journey" into possibilities in group art experiences both inside the classroom and out in the community, all grade levels. The book is filled with specific examples of teaching experiences, fully illustrated. For every professional library.

58 pgs. {1993} ISBN 0-937652-67-9
Nonmember Price: $18.00
Member Price: $11.00

No. 246 | The World of Art Education
By the late Vincent Lanier

You are sitting across from Lanier in a one-to-one conversation as he reviews his career, explains his philosophy of life, and recalls some art educators who have had an impact upon his views. He explains his insistence that art education deal with social issues, popular culture, and the media, and he shares some comments on films in which he finds deep meaning.

56 pgs. {1991} ISBN 0-937652-57-1
Nonmember Price: $15.00
Member Price: $10.00

No. 252 | Teaching Art and So On
Edmund Burke Feldman

NAEA's newest addition to its Noted Scholar Series. His insights: On Art Theory—"I think theory should have a shelf-life of at least a generation; it should be valid for a longer period than it takes to write a dissertation; and it should be the product of mature reflection upon the art created in many climes, at many times, by many peoples. Most important, art education theory should be centered on processes that lead to, or flow from, the production of visual images. In other words, leave the brain physiology to neuroanatomists." On Technology—"Educators tend to think that when a new kind of hardware comes along it should be incorporated somehow into our instructional delivery system. But that, I fear, is a rather simple-minded way to respond to a new technology. Thus far, teaching with computers has not accomplished much that matters; watching films instead of reading books does not solve our basic educational problems; and substituting photography for drawing makes little sense from an artistic standpoint."

27 pgs. {1994} ISBN 0-937652-84-9
Nonmember Price: $7.00
Member Price: $5.00


NAEA Point of View Series