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Dobbs, Stephen M., Ed. – 1979
The document presents 14 essays designed to help art educators understand the nature and scope of basic education and what and how the arts contribute to it. John Goodlad presents a basis for considering the arts as an essential ingredient of schooling. A. Graham Down discusses the concerns of the Council for Basic Education and suggests that arts…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Art Teachers, Back to Basics
Emberley, Peter C.; Newell, Waller R. – 1994
This book argues that the Canadian public higher education system should return to the principles of a classical tradition of liberal education, abandoning the experimentation in school curricula and teaching methods of the last three decades. Taking as its point of departure the Ontario government's initiatives concerning destreaming and the…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Classical Literature, Conventional Instruction, Educational Change
