Presents Efland's reply to Charles Dorn's article (November 1981) in which Dorn argues that the goal of an art curriculum incorporating studio work, art history, and criticism has not been realized and is undesirable. Efland supports school art curricula which integrates history and criticism with real-world applications. (AM)

Shows how discipline-based art education developed, and relates it to Thomas S. Kuhn's theory of paradigm shifts. Critiques Gilbert Clark, Michael Day, and W. Dwaine Greer's theory of disciplined-based art education and highlights mistaken notions in the inquiry methods of curriculum specialists. Concludes that art educators should focus on how…