Over ten years ago, Tom Barone and Elliot Eisner (1997) described seven features of existing artistic approaches to educational inquiry. Their chapter dealt primarily with written, prosaic forms of Arts-Based Educational Research, or ABER, particularly educational criticism and narrative storytelling. In their concluding section, Barone and Eisner…

As communication tool, the rubric encourages active learning and the artistic development of students by providing language for assessing process and product. This article is intended to be the authors' chronicle of their personal journeys rather than a systematic study of the role that scoring rubrics--essentially a matrix that describes the key…

Author attempted to throw some light on events in which he had been a witness and sometimes an actor, and to bring out the main lines of the surrealist adventure in the domain of the visual arts. (Author/RK)

This paper discusses the meaning of a work of art to assist with curriculum decisions in the arts. (DB)

Article discusses Museum of Modern Art one-man show of Bearden's depictions of Negro life. Artist uses a technique of montage-collage-painting which is described as giving a quality like the fluidly unfolding image of a movie scene," particularly effective in projecting the uniqueness of the black experience. (Author/PD)

Discussed the meaning of the word, lyricism, as it applied to painting, sculpture, and architecture. (Author/RK)

The imperative need to reintroduce solid technical and aesthetic disciplines into the education of the artist was considered. (Author/RK)

Suggests a technique for developing the students' appreciation of literature through the study of paintings. (RB)

As educators of gifted students, the authors see more schools climbing aboard the differentiation wagon, and students who have been identified as cognitively gifted receiving services beyond logic worksheets. Everyone still has a long way to go, however. As classroom teachers become more familiar with characteristics of giftedness and begin to…

A humanities course that teaches an appreciation of tradition and culture through the visual arts includes consideration of contemporary art as well as classic paintings and sculpture. Study of Leonardo DaVinci's "Last Supper" provides an exercise in the intellectual approach to religious painting, while the portrait of Mona Lisa by the same…

Five projects in the arts, such as drama and facepainting, provide a day's worth of class activities. Detailed instructions for each project, including materials and procedures, are given. (JL)

The author discusses techniques of making students aware of colors. (MF)

Author criticized the low priority given to the arts in schools. (Editor/RK)

Video is a very new medium; painting a very ancient one. This fact inevitably creates a great difference in the two, but not nearly so great as the confusion of this moment makes it seem. In an effort to reconcile the two media four concerns--naturalism, surface, a respect for the properties of the medium, and motion--appear to be important. These…