Discipline-based arts education is systematic instruction in concepts and processes intrinsic to the visual arts and includes participation in the aesthetic, critical, historical, and productive activities essential to appreciating cultural values. The systematic character of the instruction permits accountability. Guidelines for such study have…

Investigates concepts internal to instructional objectives as being helpful or harmful to aesthetic education. Considers the advantages and disadvantages of four concepts. (Author/RK)

Discussed individualized instruction for the artistically gifted child and identified factors which distinguish the gifted child from the average child. (Author/RK)

Article evaluated the performance of the student teacher as well as that of the cooperating teacher and their interaction. (RK)

Author directs his attention to the question of why art should be taught in the public schools and the necessity of creating an antienvironment. (RK)

An aesthetic education has many objectives, all of which must be taken into consideration when attempting to develop a suitable art curriculum. (CK)

Proposes an arts education course for elementary school teachers which is designed to stimulate the teacher's aesthetic awareness and personal exploration. The author suggests that course content should be relevant to the learner and should stress personal experience as well as emotional and polysensory awareness of art forms. (AM)

Described is a teacher-training program--Education for Aesthetic Awareness--designed to sensitize teachers to aesthetics, to help them become aesthetically literate, and to help them be better aesthetic educators. (Author/KC)

The author discusses the impact on life and the natural environment of technological process, and suggests that our frenetic and splintered culture is sorely in need of a continuity of form and faith--which may in time become the kind of values toward which art educators aim. (KC)

The major thesis of this paper is that the forms used in conventional approaches to educational evaluation have a set of profound consequences on the conduct and character of schooling in the United States. (Author)

At Sunset Ridge School in Northfield, Illinois, fourth- and fifth-graders use their new awareness of bicycle safety for developing their drawing and design orientation. (RK)

Examines John Dewey's theory of the qualitative mind, showing how his thought illuminates the process of artistic creation. Exemplifies Dewey's theory by referring to the documented creative processes of master artists, Picasso, Moore, Giacometti, and Cezanne. Identifies attributes of the qualitative thinker and artist, and presents educational…

Asserts that the introduction of the term "critical studies" to British art education reflects art educators' views that the practice of art alone is insufficient to gain a full experience and coincides with a political will to return to traditional forms of content and knowledge. (CFR)

In perceiving a correlated arts program as the foundation for an art centered curriculum the author demonstrated a few examples of an interrelated arts approach. (Author/RK)

In the wake of the proliferation of materials developed to help teachers educate five-year-olds in school this article focused on the place of art in such a situation. (Author/RK)