New knowledge on cognition and learning generated in the various fields of neuroscience is now being incorporated into the learning sciences. This development might have broad significance for the theoretical development of the field of education, in particular leading to a renewed and more nuanced understanding of learning as an embodied process.…

Haywood Technical Institute's production crafts program has an instruction staff of craftsmen who are trained as teachers and as production craftsmen. Its students are inspired and given the full opportunity needed to become successful studio craftsmen. (Author/NQ)

Educational Objectives and course descriptions for art education, grades K-8, Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, Maryland, are presented. The program consists of the integration of art production, art criticism, and art history. Objectives are intended to help students become sensitive to visual aspects of their environment, aware of art…

In open letters to the faculty affairs committee, an art education department chairman attacks the aesthetic approaches being used by a lecturer in art education to teach elementary education majors, and the lecturer defends his deemphasis of crafts and projects with R. G. Collingwood's philosophy in "Principles of Art." (SR)

Brief course descriptions and educational objectives of the art program in grades 9-12, Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, Maryland, are provided. Courses are elective and may be grouped into two sequences. Students with broad interests may elect Fundamentals of Art and continue with a series of studio art classes. Students interested in…

Discusses the contents of typical art education learning packages. Those of the Central Midwestern Regional Laboratories (CEMREL) are designed to heighten student involvement through use of media. Other packages focus on art history, art appreciation, and arts and crafts activity. A package has also been developed for special education students.…

Examines the origin and nature of kitsch and its prominence in contemporary U.S. culture. Discusses how kitsch can be used in the arts curriculum to teach cultural and aesthetic lessons. (KM)

Compares provision for and the practice of craft education in England (and Wales) and Japan. Focuses on craft within the national curriculum subject of art at the lower secondary level, and on art teachers' perceptions of its educational value and the factors impacting delivery of craft education. (Contains 34 references.) (Author/SV)

This guide to teaching art in the elementary grades aims to develop art experiences that stimulate visual awareness, personal expression, self-evaluation, and ease in using art media. The following art experiences are covered with activities classified in order of difficulty: clay, collage, crayon, drawing, masks, mobiles, mosaics, murals,…

Argues that art education does not meet its objective of creativity and instead is replicative rather than original. Contends educational journals such as "Instructor" and "Good Apple" reduce fine art to its antithesis, popular art. Concludes that art educators must work diligently to protect fine art from becoming "dumb…

This curriculum guide defines the role and objectives of the art program in the Akron Public Schools at all grade levels. Following a foreword on the role of the art teacher, materials are divided into three sections. Section I outlines the art program at the elementary level. The philosophy of elementary art and the four developmental stages of…