The author describes an ongoing National Endowment for the Humanities project that is devoted to building multiple competences by studying Rembrandt and seventeenth century Dutch culture. Its uniqueness consists in its designing of a state-of-the-art Web site that interrelates the humanities, social studies, visual arts, and technology. A major…

A unit of study, designed for a general humanities course at the community college level, illustrates the relevance of aesthetics, art history, and art criticism to art education. The unit is predicated on the belief that the visual arts possess potential for contributing to humanistic education. (Author/RM)

This introductory volume of the five-part series, "Disciplines in Art Education: Contexts of Understanding," provides a philosophical rationale for the idea of discipline-based art education. The idea models humanistic fundamentals by answering the basic human needs to communicate and share experiences with others (art making), find a place in…