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Pufall, Peter B. – Human Development, 1997
Frames a developmental psychology of art by contrasting the structural orientation of the study of drawing and the functional orientation of the study of artistry. This model maintains that graphic symbolization emerges with early mark-making, children's representative art is guided by perceptions of affordances, and children continue to engage in…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art, Art Education, Children

Albers, Peggy – Language Arts, 1997
Challenges educators to consider the meaning-making potential of art. Explores how this was done in a middle school art classroom by examining the role of the teacher, students' enculturation in art, art as process, and reflection in art. Notes the risks involved when students sometimes create visual meanings that are racist, homophobic, or…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
Smith, Gay Lynn P. – Arts & Activities, 2002
Discusses what students can learn and accomplish in the art classroom at the elementary level. Focuses on topics that include language and student vocabulary, how students can build their confidence, and how they can learn about art history and movements. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History
Basso, Robert – Arts & Activities, 2001
Provides historical background on mosaics. Describes an art activity in which students create their own mosaics. Discusses what the students can use as material to make the project much more cost effective and explains the process of creating the mosaics in detail. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Art History, Art Materials

Toku, Masami – Art Education, 2001
Explores reasons why adolescents lose interest in art by focusing on the internal and external disruptions in their artistic development. Discusses the influence of manga, or comics, on the artistic development of children in Japan and relates the characteristics of manga. Addresses the use of manga within the Japanese art curriculum. (CMK)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Art, Art Education, Comics (Publications)
Piazza, Sheila – Arts & Activities, 2002
Discusses a project that aimed at educating the public about art by bringing art to the people. Explains that students selected their favorite artwork and made a t-shirt displaying their artwork. States that the students went into their community and also created a mural. (CMK)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Art, Art Education, Educational Strategies

Ayers, Grace A. – School Arts, 1990
Describes how an integrated class exercise in which students became police artists to enhance students' recognition of reading is important to every subject. Students render drawings from a descriptive paragraph in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Finished drawings were imaginative, and reading took on a new importance. (GG)
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Class Activities

Zurmuehlen, Marilyn – Art Education, 1992
Examines postmodernist art and its impact on architecture and visual art in the United States. States that this genre of art has affected dramatically object art, such as furniture design. Contends that postmodernism can be traced through societal and personal histories. (CFR)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Architecture, Art, Art Appreciation

Sandell, Renee – Studies in Art Education, 1991
Explores feminist pedagogy's liberating relevance to the theory and practice of contemporary art education, on the premise that feminism can ameliorate the marginal statuses of women, art, and education. Discusses feminism's impact on education, feminist pedagogy as an alternative instructional model with its emphasis in collaboration,…
Descriptors: Art, Art Appreciation, Art Education, College Instruction

Garoian, Charles R. – Studies in Art Education, 1997
Argues that art educators must reconsider how representations of illness are dealt with in the classroom. Describes several contemporary illness metaphors that influence visual representations of the body, creating images that are objectified and stereotyped. Suggests six strategies that educators can use to promote compassionate and caring…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Aesthetics, Art, Art Education

Smith-Shank, Deborah – Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 1998
Argues that developments over the past twenty-five years in feminist art, art criticism, and action have allowed insights into the work of women artists. Explores feminist artwork, feminist context(s), and the author's personal development as a woman, artist, teacher, and participant in the communities that affected her development. (DSK)
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art, Art Criticism, Art Education

Simmons, Seymour, III – Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 1998
Considers art's role in creating community against a background of contemporary social problems and concerns. Discusses different forms of community-building, including efforts to sustain ethnic communities as well as efforts intended to bring diverse populations together. Suggests ways that art programs can enhance community connections while…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Community Change, Community Coordination

Green, Gayle Leigh – Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 1998
Argues that public genre art education engages the public with art forms that depart from traditional media usage and intentions to encourage collaboration, the demystification of artmaking, and societal reconstruction. Reviews aspects of the public-genre art-education methodology. Concludes that public-genre artmaking melds aesthetic practice…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Art Materials, Commercial Art

Shoemaker, Marla K. – Art Education, 1998
Describes a museum-based art-education program at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pennsylvania) designed for students learning English as a second language. Presents the program's three goals: (1) introducing the museum, (2) teaching art concepts, and (3) encouraging English speaking. Discusses program components and assesses its success. (DSK)
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education

James, Patricia – Art Education, 2000
Describes a personal analogy exercise used to experience metaphors and understand the ability to think metaphorically. States that students engage in an "I am" writing exercise where they select a portrait and write answers to such questions as "how are you like the portrait?" (CMK)
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Art Expression, Class Activities