Offers a fifth-grade art lesson on lighthouses prompted by reading Arielle North Olson's "The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter" during a language-arts lesson. Reports that the students made a two-dimensional and a three-dimensional project. States that the students were excited about conveying their ideas using two different media. Explains…

Discusses folk and outsider art and the relationship between the two art forms. Considers the inclusion of folk and outsider art in the curriculum, focusing on issues such as multiculturalism and social reconstructionism. Explores applications of folk and outsider art in the classroom. (CMK)

This paper attempts to bring into a clearer perspective the concept of assessment of learning in art by defining a theory of accountability that is compatible with public education, formulating the presuppositions that underlie a theory of art and of teaching, and examining the concepts of a behavioral methodology for assessment. (Author/RK)

This article describes the Ontario College of Art. (PB)

Article details the publishing activities of Dick Higgins and his anti-tradition Something Else Press. (RK)

Considered the artist/photographer as he arranges the visual elements of line, form, texture and value to organize space. (Author/RK)

Article described briefly the development of the bas-relief sculpture and how to create a bas-relief of a different nature but of a similar relative appearance. (Author/RK)

This textbook aims to point out physical science teachers and others interested in experimentation the usefulness of the Magic Lantern, and especially of the Porte Lumiere, and a few other pieces of apparatus which can mostly be extemporized for physics instruction as well as art and other science instruction. Experiments are included. No attempt…

THIS REPORT CONCERNS THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TELEVISION'S CONFERENCE ON TELEVISION IN ART EDUCATION. THE CONFERENCE WAS CONDUCTED TO ASSESS TV MATERIALS NOW OFFERED IN ART AREAS, IN AN EFFORT TO STIMULATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF INCREASINGLY EFFECTIVE TV MATERIALS FOR THE NATION'S SCHOOLS. THERE ARE 4 SECTIONS, (1) A STATUS REPORT OF…

GRADES OR AGES: Elementary grades. SUBJECT MATTER: Art. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into six main sections: 1) Philosophy; 2) Administration of the Elementary Art Education Program; 3) Insights into Planning Your Art Education Program; 4) Readiness Approach to Art Education Programming; 5) Art Elements; and 6) Art…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-13. SUBJECT MATTER: Art. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide consists of two volumes. The first one outlines objectives and activities in several sections, and the second one contains a 430-item bibliography. Both volumes are offset printed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES:…

Describes the use of different kinds of art materials for differing creative processes. (RK)