This article discusses contemporary contextualist curriculum approaches that suggest that both content and meaning can be co-constructed by teachers and learners, can remain flexible and open-ended, and can acknowledge the constant influx of real-life issues that arise in the daily lives of learners. The author, an Assistant Professor of Art…

Sixth grade students taught to make plaster dried masks in shape of totem poles from discarded plastic containers. (DS)

Demonstrates that use of unusual materials frees the students from preconceptions of what his art product could be. (DS)

Education in European countries is subject to many competing demands which have an influence on the organisation and content of arts education. Increasing globalisation has brought both benefits and challenges, including those arising from increased international competition, migration and multiculturalism, advancements in technology and the…

Educators are familiar with working together to produce curriculum packages, to team teach a unit, to host a parent event, to put on a school-wide concert, or to plan a conference. Collaboration in art education as presented in this publication is a team effort that is slightly different and beyond ordinary collaboration. Collaborative art-making…

A list of 50 teachers and their techniques selected by "Grade Teacher magazine as being the best in the field. (AP)

Recommends that the essentials of a quality education in art include a wide variety of art experiences by students, including art criticism, aesthetics, and art history. Provides a model to be used in art instruction which outlines the hierarchy of art-response levels for children. (HB)

In this article, the author describes that teaching students how to unlock the color of white is his passion. Like so many other art teachers, he struggled for years teaching color wheels and making value scales, only to be frustrated when students produced colorful charts and then made colorless paintings. He was teaching students how to mix…

Professional development through the advanced planning of themed exhibitions provides art instructors in Howard County, Maryland, the impetus for many of the ideas that may become artful problems presented to students. In this installment of the series Artful Collaborations, Stacey McKenna and Gino Molfino share their response for the spring 2001…

Author gives practical pointers in using papier-mache for sculpture. (GB)

Describes a class activity in which individual sewing and embroidering efforts were combined to make a banner. (GB)

Article discusses the sculptures on the campus of Princeton University and includes some interesting photographs. (GB)

Describes a teaching unit in non-objective art for high school students to help them better understand modern art. (GB)

Article seeks to explore certain ways in which art teaching can be incorporated into general studies programs designed for older pupils in secondary schools. (Editor)