The theme for the 60th annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) was Literacy: The Critical Role of Teacher Knowledge. This Yearbook provides a snapshot of the highlights of the meeting and sampling of some of the proceedings. The focus is on three questions surrounding the conference theme: (1) What do…

The research papers gathered in this volume were presented at the 1992 and 1993 meetings of the American Educational Research Association most were part of the Arts and Learning Special Interest Group programs. Papers focus on the following themes: assessing student learning; women's movement in art education; and art education in various…

This symposium focused on art education management and saw the first steps taken to build communication networks with professional colleagues in educational leadership positions throughout Arizona. The booklet provides the addresses of the keynote speaker and other invited guests. Speakers include: (1) Thomas A. Hatfield, author and executive…

This symposium focused on art education management and the continuing efforts to build communication networks with professional colleagues in educational leadership positions throughout Arizona. The booklet provides the addresses of the keynote speaker and other invited guests. Opening remarks are made by: Chris Bavasi, Mayor of Flagstaff, AZ;…

This symposium focused on art education management and continuing efforts to strengthen communications with professional colleagues in educational leadership positions throughout Arizona. The booklet provides the addresses of the keynote speaker and other invited guests. Welcoming remarks were made by Edward Groenhout, Dean of Fine Arts at…

The Arts in Education Conference held in Sacramento (California) inspired a campaign to make a secure place for arts in the schools. (Author/JM)

This publication contains proceedings of a seminar structured around five basic themes: (1) cultural diversity in education; (2) discipline based art education (DBAE) and cultural diversity; (3) how cultural diversity has affected practices in art history, aesthetics, criticism, and art making; (4) experiences in other disciplines which effect…

These abstracts are of the research presentations of the National Art Education Convention of 1997. The New Orleans 1997 Seminar for Research in Art Education (SRAE) Abstracts includes the 61 accepted proposals and the 11 task force and meeting presentations. They reflect an ongoing wide range and expanding mass of interests both traditional and…

This report presents the keynote addresses of the 1996 Mississippi Arts Education Conference, along with the questionnaire and interpretations of the questionnaire by conference participants. Recommendations from the conference participants are also included. Sections of the report include: (1) "Reflections" (Thomas M. Brewer); (2)…

The document reports the proceedings of a mini-conference on the impact of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 on arts programs for the handicapped. Included are sections on the following: a brief review of P.L. 94-142, Section 504, and Section 409 of P.L. 93-380; a copy of…

The papers gathered in this volume were presented at the 1991 meeting of the American Educational Research Association. All the papers were presented as part of the Arts and Learning Special Interest Group (SIG) or were cosponsored by the arts SIG. Following an editorial, papers in this volume are: "Four Types of Women's History and How They…

Papers included in this collection which were originally presented at the inaugural meeting of the Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education are: "Introduction: Toward a Socially Progressive Conception of Art Education" (R. Bersson); "Established Ways of Thinking" (J. Hobbs); "Needed: A New View of Art and Emotions" (A. Sherman); "Statement for…

The seminar's major theme was that art education is a discipline in its own right. It was concluded that the art curriculum can be both structured and disciplined, with the goals of art instruction determined from the characteristics of the discipline rather than of children at various stages of development. (Author/RM)

Reports on a three-day conference entitled "Creative Process in Education: Design for Quality Learning." Held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the conference focused on integrating the arts into the elementary curriculum. Teaching ideas presented in workshop sessions are described. (Author/SJL)

This collection of essays explores various arts education-specific evaluation tools, as well as considers Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the inclusion of people with disabilities in the design of evaluation instruments and strategies. Prominent evaluators Donna M. Mertens, Robert Horowitz, Dennie Palmer Wolf, and Gail Burnaford are…