This collection of working papers in art education is comprised of manuscripts by graduate students presented at the National Art Education Conference. Papers in this issue reflect several educational settings and geographic areas. The 22 articles include: (1) "Symbolic Meanings in the Ghanaian Arts: A Step Towards Developing Cultural Literacy" (Robert Ayiku); (2) "Artistic Scanning as a Classroom Qualitative Research Activity" (Steve Elliot); (3) "Cross Cultural Interpretation and Valuing of Northwest Coast Art by Natives and Non-Native Americans" (Nancy Parks); (4) "A Feminist Study of African American Art in New Orleans: Considerations of Aesthetics, Art History and Art Criticism" (Harriet Walker); (5) "A World Community of Old Trees: An Ecology Art Project on the World Wide Web" (June Julian); (6) "A Feminist-Based Studio Art Critique: A Classroom Study" (Anne Burkhart); (7) "Designing a Collaborative Arts Program: Implications for Preservice Art Education" (Jan Fedorenko); (8) "Text, Discourse, Deconstruction and an Exploration of Self: A Disruptive Model for Postmodern Art Education" (Jane Gooding-Brown); (9) "Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work with Diverse Student Populations: Implications for Visual Arts Teacher Education" (Wanda B. Knight); (10) "A New Case for Clay: Multi-Dimensional High School Ceramics" (Billie Sessions); (11) "A Meta-Critical Analysis of Ceramics Criticism for Art Education: Toward an Interpretative Methodology" (Booker Stephen Carpenter, II); (12) "Teaching Art as Reasoned Perception: Aesthetic Knowing in Theory and Practice" (Richard Siegesmund); (13) "The Feminization of Physical Culture: The Introduction of Dance into the American University Curriculum" (Janice Ross); (14) "Of Hosts and Guests: Curricular Discourses at a Southeast Asian Cultural Village" (Cameron Graham); (15) "Hanging Emily: Issues in Art, Text and Education" (Karen Knutson); (16) "The Creative Process and the Making of a Virtual Environment Work of Art" (Dena Eber); (17) "Spatial Treatment in Children's Drawings: Why Do Japanese Children Draw in Particular Ways?" (Masami Toku); (18) "Conversation as Pedagogy in the Teaching of Art" (Jane Zander); (19) "Sharing the Mountain; Tabasaran Weaving Culture" (Lorraine Ross, '96); (20) "Color Shards and Carpets: Context in Dagestan" (Lorraine Ross, '97); (21) "Anton and Jay's Sports Trading Card Series: Embracing the Presence of Letters" (Lisa Schoenfielder); and (22) "Teaching Art Via Culture: Fictive Travel as a Learning Tool" (Erin Tapley). (EH)