Traces the development of an art program for the Amarillo, Texas, Senior Citizens Association. This program, the Arts and Creative Skills Area, funded by Amarillo College, has associations with community art groups and shows and receives support from the recently established Senior Citizen Task Force on the Arts. (AEM)

Reviews the evolution of courses and degree programs designed to produce art education specialists. Devotes particular attention to the emergence of discipline-based art education (DBAE) ideas. Concludes that DBAE has clarified the question of what to teach; that the challenge now is to bridge the gap between DBAE theory and current teaching…

Aims to show that children have a "functional use of drawing" which contrasts with the mechanistic stages model of drawing development. Observes that young children's images often show extended time sequences. Argues that, when considered from this viewpoint, children's drawing abilities develop gradually from a high to a low variety of…

Shows how two approaches, nurture (subject-matter centered) and nature (child-centered), have affected education and art education over the years. Concludes that whichever approach is fashionable, art education must be relevant to students' lives and they should be able to talk intelligently about art. (KM)