One source of materials for art education historical research, which has barely been tapped in the United States, is ephemera, casual bits of handwritten and printed paper used in daily life. These circulated images and documents convey actual practices, commitments, and attitudes of people. (IS)

Students preparing to become art teachers at Massachusetts College of Art must take a course that teaches them the techniques of historical research. Students choose their own research topics. One student found part of a Chautauqua industrial art desk, the researching of which opened up many new areas for historical investigation. (Author/RM)

Nothing will kill the value of historical research more readily than a trendy, purposelessness, and careless methodology. Suggestions offered aim to give pause to future historical researchers so that they may reflect about what aspects of art they choose to study. (RM)

Tracing the changing concept of child art from the theories of Rousseau to the present, the author expounds the view that the interpretation of child art and the content of art education are functions of the social issues surrounding adult art in a given culture. (Author/SJL)

In this volume a painter and an art historian explore the production of studio and classroom art in education. Part 1 consists of 6 chapters in which painter, Maurice Brown, discusses the relationship between image makers and language; examines the medium of oil; looks at style, impulse, eclecticism, and color; probes the personal experience of…