Feels education has neglected the visual and creative parts of the self accessible through art. Offers a rationale for having K-12 students draw for 30 minutes daily following structured visual exercises to strengthen skills in seeing, remembering, and connecting. Offers a critique of Mortimer Adler's Paideia Proposal. (DMM)

The focus of discipline-based art instruction is on art within general education and within the context of aesthetic education. Four disciplines--aesthetics, studio art, art history, and art criticism--are taught by means of a formal, continuous, sequential, written curriculum across grade levels, in the same way as other subjects. (Author/RM)

Addressed is how the art curriculum and the school system affect one another, with a pragmatic description of how the art curriculum should fit into the total art program and of how both can be related to the goals of the school system. (Editor/KC)

The purpose of this book is to examine current conditions for art education (what is) and ask the reader to think about what ought to be. By blending history, theory, and practice, the author attempts to provide a multifaceted model for art teachers to use as a starting point in their efforts to improve art education as we prepare to enter the…