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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
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Ernst, Karen – Language Arts, 1994
Provides words and pictures to help understand how the concept of the artists' workshop can enhance writers' workshops in the elementary or middle school classroom. (RS)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Class Activities, Elementary Education
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Gilles, Carol; And Others – Language Arts, 1998
Presents thoughts of teachers (many from Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School in Columbia, Missouri) on why they engage in the expressive arts and literature. Offers specific examples of how teachers explore life and literature through drama, music, and art with 22 children's books. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Childrens Literature, Drama