Arts in Education

Offering a contemporary overview of how visual art teachers assess learning in their classrooms, this book provides an outline of the role of assessment in reporting not only student achievement but also how student assessment ties to the intrinsic and...

Featuring the work of leading scholar-practitioners, Visual Arts with Young Children raises critical questions about the situated nature of the visual arts and its education in early childhood. Innovative chapters explore the relationship of place to art...

In this book, award-winning art educator Debrah C. Sickler-Voigt offers user-friendly, approachable strategies for STEAM planning, instruction, and assessment to help cultivate PK-12 students' full potential, and draws from wide-ranging artists and...

Stephanie Springgay’s concept of feltness—which emerges from affect theory, queer and feminist theory, and feminist conceptions of more-than-human entanglements—is a set of intimate practices of creating art based on touch, affect, relationality, love,...

The main aim of this book is to present the theory and purpose underpinning the approaches to dance literacy as explored by the Language of Dance® community in the USA and UK. Through their teacher training programs, they are changing the face of...

Living Histories is a collection of new scholarship that explores histories of art education through a series of international contexts. The first truly international text highlighting histories of art education, with contributions from over 30 scholars...

Following the first collection of story drama structures, Into the Story 2: More Stories! More Drama! presents a well-argued approach to the value of children's picture books as a way to look at contemporary issues of social justice while building...

Dancing Across Borders presents formal and non-formal settings of dance education where initiatives in different countries transcend borders: cultural and national borders, subject borders, professional borders and socio-economic borders. It includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789383553Author Jeff AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect BooksWeight(grams) 170g

Arts Integration in Education is an insightful, even inspiring investigation into the enormous possibilities for change that are offered by the application of arts integration in education. Presenting research from a range of settings, from preschool to...

This book explores collaboration between artists and scientists and examines the ways in which scientific data and research findings can be communicated, translated and transformed using the techniques of contemporary art and information technology...

Previously published as Kid Quixotes, the unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher unlock the revolutionary power of listening."Haff paints a picture of what education in America...

A cooperative reflection on how to teach art. How should art be taught? What kind of knowledge should artists absorb? How might an ordinary person become a creature addicted to the creative process? In other words, how can a non-artist become an artist?...

Children's temperaments, as described by Rudolf Steiner, are significant in their development. This thought-provoking book considers the different temperaments and relates them to Waldorf education, specifically, in the teaching of the arts.The book...

Humanizing Education with Dramatic Inquiry provides a comprehensive rationale for why and how dramatic inquiry can be used by any teacher to humanize classroom communities and the subject areas being explored with students.Written by teacher educators...

Originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, this volume explores how researchers, educators, artists, and scholars can collaborate with, and engage young people in art, creative practice, and...

This book offers a variety of effective, concrete ways to better assimilate arts therapies in the educational system.Featuring leading art therapists and the models they have honed as a result of their arts experience in education, Integrating Arts...

Art for Children Experiencing Psychological Trauma aims to increase understanding of art's potential to enhance learning for children living in crisis. In this ground-breaking resource, the first of its kind to focus specifically on the connection...

Examines the role that adults play in shaping children’s earliest experiences of art making and challenges common myths and misconceptions around early childhood art.

The primary source of in-depth information on music learning, literacy, and reading.

The primary source of in-depth information on music learning, literacy, and reading.

This step-by-step guide takes you through the process of transitioning your K-8 school to the Immersive Arts Integration model. The model develops deeper connections with content, stronger relationships, and a positive school climate. Co-authors Dr...

This textbook equips students and educators committed to understanding how art and creative practice work as powerful communicative tools and have a substantial role in advancing civic participation. Alongside promoting educational practices with...

The ultimate resource for developing a diverse, engaging primary art curriculum based on the work of artists from a range of backgrounds and cultures. Whether your class are drawing self-portraits or collaging with recycled materials, take inspiration...