This New Jersey Folk Artists in Education program brings community educators together with professional educators to enrich students' appreciation of their own and others' traditional cultures at the same time as they develop basic skills. The life stories of nine folk artists and their communities, as well as the stories of how they work together…

This study reviewed possibilities for looking at aesthetic perception in art using the D. E. Berlyne approach, identifying alternative methods, and reporting the results of a factor analytic study of preferences of young college adults for abstract art. The Berlyne approach used stimulus objects of simple to complex abstract components of the more…

The landmark 1977 report of the Arts, Education and Americans Panel entitled "Coming to Our Senses," contained recommendations for the future of arts education in the United States. The volume described here, written by a researcher involved in the first study, attempts to show the state of arts education as it was in 1977 and as it is today. The…

This Pennsylvania state curriculum guide provides a rationale and plan for the inclusion and role of arts education in a K-12 curriculum. Part 1, "Actions of the Arts Process," describes concepts related to the terms art, artists, and the arts process and suggests that students need to experience perceiving, responding, understanding, creating,…

The character of art criticism, both how it naturally occurs and how it is academically constructed, is reflective of social and aesthetic value orientations--much as the art object itself has been found to be a clue to the values of the society in which it is practiced, used, and appreciated. The belief that the art object possesses…

Chinese folk art, known as "the small skills of carving insects," differs from artworks produced by skilled or highly educated Chinese artisans. Folk art is defined as works that are created by ordinary citizens and that often are items designed for personal use. The designation, "the small skills of carving insects," occurred…

Exploring the place of the arts in the precollege curricula, chapter 1 of these proceedings opens with an overview of the conference by Maria Meulenbeek. The papers in chapter 2 discuss the relationship between art and education and include the authors Hermann Rohrs, Peter van Stapele, Geoff Haward, and Jagjivan R. Sheth. Ways to bring art into…

The purpose of this dissertation is to describe teaching strategies with potential to provide inner city minority group students with success experiences in selected areas of art production. Teaching strategies relevant to problems, strengths, and needs of these youngsters in relation to achievement in school are identified, devised, and described…

One of the twelve exemplary programs summarized in the Introduction to Right to Read's "Effective Reading Programs: Summaries of 222 Selected Programs" (CS001934), this program attempts to improve the reading skills of inner-city children, increase their aspirational levels, enhance their feelings of self-worth, and stimulate their…

Two main themes of motion picture development in America are presented in this comprehensive historical guide to movies. The sophistication and broadening of the movies as an art form and the complex relationships between a period and the movies of that period are fully explored. Particular emphasis has been placed on the role of the director.…

Art education, examined in this report written by a task force of art educators, focuses upon roles of art educators, problems, purposes, and future potential and directions of quality art education in the middle and junior high schools. Three chapters comprise the book. Art in relation to the individual, community, and culture is discussed and…

In this book a task force of art specialists report on art education as integral to a total school program. Emphasizing the need for art education to play a more dominant role in the education of all students, the three chapters discuss and examine problems and the direction of quality art education in high schools. Chapter one discusses art and…

Prepared by a curriculum writing team of secondary teachers, this draft curriculum guide for grades 7-12 includes 25 levels of achievement in art. Each level has stated behavioral objectives and a list of suggested activities from which it is hoped the teacher will pick the most appropriate ones for his/her classes. Some of the areas of art…

Advocates the use of novels in art education to offer students insights into ways an artist sees the world and approaches an artistic task. Specifically discusses Colby Rodowsky's "Julie's Daughter," Zibby Oneal's "In Summer Light," and Elizabeth de Trevino's "I, Juan de Pareja" as young adult novels that focus on artistic endeavor. (GEA)