On September 18th 2003, the director of the Human Creativity youth arts program at Central Falls High School in Central Falls, Rhode Island, and four of its youth leaders enter Lincoln Center in New York City. They are there to present their program's work at a national forum held by the Arts Education Partnership (AEP). The forum is one of three…

Why focus on art instead of on some other discipline to approach intercultural understanding? This paper argues that because art is about the spirit, the self, the soul, the things that people think are important, it should be the key choice. To lay the foundation for this argument, the paper addresses art as communication of core values and…

This paper describes postmodern theory as a paradigm composed of concepts and ideas. It does not describe postmodern theory as if it were developed logically from a simple premise, because it was not, nor can the postmodern paradigm be described in neat, concise terms. The paper presents a review and explication of postmodernism's theoretical…

This paper contends that the conventional ways in which art is accounted for exclude all but the interests of the dominant social group and effectively defeat many of the initiatives that have been taken in the field over the last three decades to account for the values, aspirations, and beliefs of minority groups. The paper attempts to show how…

This paper presents a narrative of a case study conducted in an Ohio middle school as part of a 5-year nationally funded reform program, Transforming Education through Art Challenge (TETAC), which features the arts as central in integrated/interdisciplinary curriculum planning. In the school the paper reports on, there are approximately 64…

This paper aims to investigate the New Zealand assessment and qualifications reforms at the senior secondary school level within the political contexts of educational reform of the 1990s and the resulting effect for assessment in art education. These reforms involved a swing to an outcomes based model of assessment and the resulting qualifications…

This paper discusses artistic and educational events that have occurred in Slovenia during the last two years, including a graphic art exhibition of children's work. The paper introduces the author's work over the past two years and tells why these artistic events have a fundamental importance for his future research and advising work. It explores…

This paper describes an alternative art education methodology grounded in feminist emancipatory epistemology and poststructuralist theory. The paper takes a short journey through the author's research, touching on concerns about epistemology and methodology, and by looking more closely at the application of discourse analysis to the research data.…

The role of education in the art museum has taken on new dimensions as their education departments are faced with a broader and larger public audience than ever before. This paper documents education practice at a contemporary art museum. The paper delineates an interpretive inquiry through which a group of museum educators sought to understand…

For one instructor, years of working with children in the art classroom suggested that talking with children is necessary and vital to understanding how they learn artistically and how to teach them. This paper focuses specifically on children's talk about their art in relation to the children's view that their world is separate and distinct from…

Evaluation of student work in the visual arts is a mystery for many not involved in the process of creating and teaching art. Even for those experienced in teaching visual arts, the process of evaluation is often too subjective and lacking in formative feedback for the student. This paper describes how Process Portfolios along with clearly defined…

Using British examples, the author discusses ways that artists and arts organizations can and should become involved in classroom art education in partnership with teachers. (This paper was presented at the Aesthetic Education Conference, London, September 1980.) (SJL)

In this presidential address to the National Association of Gifted Children, the author presents a 10-step program that may be used by administrators at the program level and teachers at the classroom level to lead gifted education forward in its attempts to optimize learning for gifted learners as well as to address the needs of all learners.…

This paper discusses current changes in the teaching and learning of artistic rendering in light of technological advances that may cause teachers to rethink both what is taught, and the manner in which the results of the artistic process are valued and evaluated. The two methods of generating a photorealistic computer image are described,…

This paper proposes that the original theory and practice of discipline based art education (DBAE) of the 1980s are undergoing significant changes, and that Neo-DBAE is emerging in the 1990s. Changes in original DBAE theory and practice of the 1980s are discussed, and reasons for such changes are proposed. Some identified changes are: more…