NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Smith, Peter – Art Education, 1985
Smith replies to Matoba's earlier art/sports analogy (Art Education, v38 n4 p30-31,46). Smith's basic disagreement is that art is not a sport. (RM)
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Smith, Peter; Riddler, Majory – School Arts, 1984
Techniques are presented to get children thinking about their body motions, thereby increasing the expressiveness of their drawings. (RM)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Childrens Art, Creative Art
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Smith, Peter – Studies in Art Education, 1991
Compares Oskar Kokoschka's teaching practices with American Progressive Education literature. Observes that the latter stresses the need for practicing artists to teach in the schools. Evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the artist-in-the-classroom concept revealed in light of Kokoschka's practices. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Artists, Curriculum Evaluation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Smith, Peter – Art Education, 1989
Proposes an art curriculum framework that reduces aesthetics to three theories of art: imitationalist, formalist, and emotionalist. Fits each theory into the curriculum at the appropriate developmental stage of the student. Applies these theories to art criticism, art history, and studio production. (LS)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Criticism, Art Education
Smith, Peter – 1991
The relationship between obscenity in the arts and practices in the school art classes is discussed. The issue of whether or not a teacher can advocate unrestricted freedom of speech expression is raised and the problems for the teacher caused by attitudes in the contemporary art world are outlined. (Author)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Art History, Censorship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Smith, Peter – Art Education, 1994
Asserts that multiculturalism is an inevitable feature of future curriculum development. Describes four approaches to multiculturalism: (1) attack multiculturalism; (2) escape multiculturalism; (3) transformative multiculturalism; and (4) repair multiculturalism. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Education, Blacks, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism