While school art programs receive support from classroom teachers and school administrators, rationales for such support are frequently based on misconceptions of art and art learning processes. Through critical examination of two recent articles (Pierce, 1981; Klein, 1982), the author establishes a more accurate representation of current thinking…

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)

Article focused on teacher preparation for the special educator and the art teacher and discussed an art curriculum that will provide the prospective art teacher with the ability to help students to develop their individual capacities. (RK)

Article presented the opinions of our political leaders and policymakers with regard to their views about art education and their interests in the aesthetic survival of man. (Editor/RK)

Article focused on the development of a central concept related to art concerns. (Author/RK)

Considered the art curriculum and the need to emphasize the cognitive aspects of a child's perceptual development. (Author/RK)

This article dealt with some prevailing contradictions and misconceptions in regard to the function of the arts in general education and in aesthetic education. (Author/RK)

Author expressed his own, admittedly-biased, subjective, inconsistent, non-ordered, ever-changing attitudes and feelings about what was, what is, and perhaps, what should be our concerns in the Fine Arts within the university. (Author/RK)

Discussing Ralph Smith's monograph EXCELLENCE IN ART EDUCATION: IDEAS AND INITIATIVES, the author criticizes the reliance on "classics" or "masterpieces" for art education. Stating that Smith's elitism is unbeneficial, Hobbs advocates a mixture of the classics and local and popular art with a disposition to interpret and…

Article discussed the evaluation of the conference on teacher education by the author. (RK)

This paper described three shortcomings entailed in the use of behavioral objectives in evaluation. (Author)

Two chapters extracted from the authors Master's Thesis. (Editor)

Art education is discussed as a necessary basic skill which develops aesthetic responses fundamental to life experience. The role of art in internalized cognitive mechanisms is illustrated by the "American Freedom Festival," a day of school activities in many arts, developing the "whole" child's resources and sense of discovery. (CM)

Describes how visual arts curricula contribute to the attainment of American general education objectives. The contribution of the arts to culture and human fulfillment is discussed. Available from Carfax Publishing Company, P.O. Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 1RW England. (AM)