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Smith, Ralph A. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2008
In this article, the author conceptualizes educational aesthetics in terms of two domains: educational aesthetics as arts education and educational aesthetics as a range of nonarts educational activities understood from artistic and aesthetic points of view. A lead is taken from Harry S. Broudy's midcentury essay "Some Duties of an Educational…
Descriptors: Art Education, Aesthetics, Educational Policy, Educational Theories
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Smith, Ralph A. – Studies in Art Education, 1983
Suggests that ideology can be defined nonpejoratively as a system of ideas that has a bearing on practice. Such an ideology can be judged to be more or less rationally defensible. Use is made of the acronym MKVICKER to help recall the components of an ideology. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Art Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Ralph A. – Stud Art Educ, 1970
The cognitive processes involved in understanding aesthetic Principles are discussed. (CK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Critical Thinking
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Smith, Ralph A. – Art Education, 1973
Author describes two instructive ways of illustrating the principal business of aesthetic education and summarizes the way in which the notion of a form of understanding is dealt with by Dearden. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Art, Concept Formation, Cultural Enrichment, Educational Experience
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Smith, Ralph A. – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1987
Offers a brief history of the academic roots of discipline-based art education (DBAE). Discusses writings in the areas of educational philosophy, educational psychology, the social foundations of education, and educational theories and policy which shape contemporary thinking about DBAE. (JDH)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Art History, Curriculum Development