Describes the art education program in Moncton, New Brunswick (Canada) from elementary school through senior high, emphasizing art as a serious discipline that demands a coherent structure, definite objectives, sequential learning skills, reasonable expectations of both product and process, a regular place in the timetable, and trained teachers…

Explores the mismatch between pedagogical intentions and learner outcomes and argues for learner centeredness as a central (yet relative) concept. Ways in which the relationship between teachers and learners and teaching and learning can be strengthened, e.g., experiential content, language content, and learning process, are explored, and examples…

Describes a program developed collaboratively between a school library media specialist and a teacher for a fifth-grade language arts class on writing a research paper. Goals, including shared library resources and the use of print and electronic materials; sequence of lessons; and student reactions are discussed. (LRW)