This report summarizes and compares the views of six experts in art education concerned with teaching art for students' conceptual understanding at the elementary level. Two art education professors and three public school art specialists who teach art at the elementary level engaged in comprehensive written exercises to address issues related to…

This report focuses on the implications of eight Center for the Learning and Teaching of Elementary Subjects studies in elementary art and music education and synthesized existing research with respect to teacher education in art and music education. The first section provides a summary of the major findings in each of the Center studies in art…

Argues that, before art educators can achieve emancipatory goals and practices for others, they must first address institutional and organizational arrangements that constrain their own identities, imaginations, and practices. Calls for local, supportive, professional communities in which this dialog may take place. (CFR)

Presents six assumptions underlying action research, or research by classroom teachers. Contends that teachers can conduct legitimate and useful research if it is qualitative or interpretative not quantitative. Concludes that art education and art educational professionals have much to gain by engaging in action research. (CFR)

This report presents five case studies of teaching for understanding in the arts. The first two studies are of expert elementary music teachers who engaged in weekly planning together. In the case of Anna Spaulding, a first grade lesson is presented in detail as well as a description of how this teacher conceived of music as a discipline, planned…