Traditional ties between "arts" education (that is, discipline-based arts subjects and activities in schools) and an emergent notion of "creativity" in educational discourses and policy documents are loosening, with implications for both. While creativity seems to be on the ascent, the arts may not be as fortunate; creative…

This article features an arts education curriculum project that was designed to use the oeuvre of Rembrandt van Rijn--seventeenth-century Dutch painter, etcher, and draftsman extraordinaire--as a teaching resource. A partnership of scholars, university professors, museum educators, and classroom teachers designed the project, which uses Rembrandt…

States that creativity has a role to play in all secondary school subjects, not just art. Urges curriculum planners to support subjects which emphasize creativity. (BSR)

The Arts Curriculum Development Project is new, but the parent agency, Educational Systems for the Seventies (ES '70) is not. Membership in ES '70 includes 18 high schools with a combined student population of more than a million students. The purpose of Arts Curriculum Development Project is to plan a well rounded curriculum in the performing…

Compares recent trends in art education with the rationale for art learning expressed in a 1931 article by Victor D'Amico, "Art and the Average American Boy." Concludes that much of what D'Amico wrote still holds true today, especially the belief that art instruction must move beyond the studio to permeate daily life. (JDH)

Retraces the development, implementation, and evaluation of an art unit dealing with sculpture using a method called unit construction for fourth-year students in a British comprehensive school art class. Available from Carfax Publishing Company, P.O. Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 1RW England. (AM)

Discusses problems in evaluating artistic ability, changing views on the appropriate content and methods for art education, and new research that reveals relationships between artistic and other intellectual abilities; briefly notes several studies on art programs for the gifted and talented. (MCG)

The College Board's report "Academic Preparation for College" (APC) claims that study and performance in the arts are essential for success in college. Discussed are the APC report and its development, the APC arts statement and its evolution, and problems and prospects for implementation of the arts competencies. (RM)

Describes a general design for high school student tours of museums based on research concerning effective tours and student interests. Summarizes one such tour in which students assumed the role of anthropologists when viewing art. (DS)

This curriculum guide presents documentation of development of a holistic approach to curricula in science, art, humanities, and environmental education for the secondary school level. The outgrowth of this curricula development was the integration of these disciplines into a "life systems" curriculum involving an interrelated teaching approach.…

Eleven reports on the topic of art education comprise this volume which is arranged into four major parts. Part one, Art Education, presents three reports. The first report examines the bases of pressures upon art education, and suggests the nature of the program that should emerge. The significance of the visual in the world today, in art, and as…

Striving for an environmentally-oriented curriculum in junior high school art, this resource booklet for teachers offers numerous suggestions for incorporating environmental learnings into the arts curriculum. Ideas presented are examples of how learning in art can be directed in ways that lead to increased awareness and perception of the…

To investigate the characteristics, benefits, and problems associated with implementing Discipline-Based Art Education, the author accompanies two hypothetical secondary school principals on a visit to a high school involved in DBAE. The tour highlights state graduation requirements, instructional materials, and student evaluation methods related…

Discusses current changes in the structures of British art education in light of the 1988 Education Reform Act (ERA), and describes the use of microcomputers to develop visual sensitivity and skills. A test model is discussed which examines an experiential approach toward the teaching, evaluation, and interpretation of color theory. (five…