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Edition
The Arts and
Art Education
Artful
Teaching
Integrating
the Arts for
Understanding
Across the
Curriculum, K–8
Edited by David
M. Donahue and
Jennifer Stuart
Foreword by Cyrus E. Driver
Afterword by Lois Hetland
“Provides a thorough guide to integrating
art into other disciplinary subjects...recommended.”
—SchoolArts
“Recommended.” —Choice
The text includes rich and lively
examples of public school teachers
integrating visual arts, music,
drama, and dance with subject
matter, including English, social
studies, science, and mathematics.
Readers will come away with a
deeper understanding of why and
how to use the arts every day, in
every school, to reach every child.
This book is both a practitioner’s
guide and a school reform model.
2010/192 pp./PB, $25.95/5080-3
HC, $57/5081-0 15 photos
A joint publication with NAEA
(National Art Education Association)
Looking at
Art in the
Classroom
Art
Investigations
from the
Guggenheim
Museum
Rebecca
Shulman Herz
Foreword by Grant Wiggins
This book details the Guggenheim
Museum’s classroom-tested,
inquiry-based approach to learning.
In a user-friendly guide, it provides
teachers (grades 2–8) with strategies
and resources for investigating
art to enhance student learning
across the curriculum. Featuring
the experiences of the Guggenheim
Museum’s 40-year-old Learning
Through Art program, this text
includes color reproductions of
masterpieces, adaptable lesson
plans, guidance for finding ageappropriate
images, and much
more.
2010/144 pp./PB, $24.95/5047-6
large format, 24 photos including color
insert
Engaging
Learners
Through
Artmaking
Choice-Based
Art Education in
the Classroom
Katherine M.
Douglas and
Diane B. Jaquith
Foreword by George Szekely
“The authors address theory, instruction,
assessment and advocacy in a
user-friendly format that includes
color photos of classroom setups and
student work, sample demonstrations
and reflections on classroom activities.
Overall, the book states the case for
what we ‘ought to be doing.’”
—Arts and Activities
“A dynamic resource.”
—Art Education
2009/128 pp./PB, $22.95/4976-0
24 full color photographs
Teaching Visual Culture
Curriculum, Aesthetics, and the
Social Life of Art
Kerry Freedman
Provides a conceptual framework
for teaching the visual arts (K–12
and higher education) from a cultural
standpoint.
2003/208 pp./PB, $25.95/4371-3
HC, $44/4372-0 9 Illustrations
A joint publication with NAEA
(National Art Education Association)
Variations on
a Blue Guitar
The Lincoln Center Institute
Lectures on Aesthetic Education
Maxine Greene
Introduction by Scott Noppe-
Brandon and Madeleine F. Holzer
“I encourage all Teaching Artists and
educators everywhere to take advantage
of this wonderful resource.”
—Teaching Artists Journal
“A valuable book for the beginning
teacher.” —Educational Review
2001/256 pp./PB, $25.95/4135-1
HC, $50/4136-8
Also by this author:
See Author Index
2007 National Art Education Association
Marion Quin Dix Leadership Award
How Children Make Art
Lessons in Creativity
from Home to School
George Szekely
“Both practical and whimsical.... All
parents and teachers can learn from
George Szekely’s example.”
—Arts and Activities
2006/224 pp./PB, $25.95/4719-3
13 photos
A joint publication with NAEA
(National Art Education Association)
Why Our
Schools
Need the
Arts
Jessica
Hoffmann Davis
“This pioneering
work dares to
chart a new path.”
—Art Education
“Highly recommended for all educators,
parents and administrators in K–12
schools.” —Choice
“This book is a must-read for anyone
who cares about kids.”
—Carly Simon,
author and musician
2008/160 pp./PB, $23.95/4834-3
11 photos/illustrations
A joint publication with NAEA
(National Art Education Association)
See new book by Davis, 28
Observation Drawing
with Children
A Framework for Teachers
Nancy R. Smith and the Drawing
Study Group, comprised of:
Laraine Cicchetti, Margaret C.
Clark, Carolee Fucigna, Barbara
Gordon-O’Connor, Barbara A.
Halley, and Margaret Kennedy
Foreword by Dennie Palmer Wolf
“It opens new doors to the ways a
child’s drawing contributes to learning
all through the curriculum.”
—Arts and Activities
1998/144 pp./PB, $22.95/3691-3
Also by Nancy SMith:
See Author Index
NEW
A History
of Art
Education
Intellectual
and Social
Currents in
Teaching the
Visual Arts
Arthur Efland
“The book
should become
a standard reference tool for art
educators at all levels of the field.”
—The Journal of Aesthetics
and Art Criticism
“The preeminent art education scholar
Arthur Efland not only sheds light
on the problems of inhibiting art
education, but also demonstrates
how art contributes to the overall
development of the mind.”
—Arts and Activities
Best
Seller
1990/320 pp./PB, $27.95/2977-9
New
Edition
Studio
Thinking
The Real
Benefits of
Visual Arts
Education
Lois Hetland,
Ellen Winner,
Shirley
Veenema, and
Kimberly M.
Sheridan
Foreword by David N. Perkins
“Would be helpful to art teachers in
promoting quality teaching in their
classrooms.”
—School Arts Magazine
NEW
Best
Seller
Featured in The New York Times
and The Boston Globe, this book
presents groundbreaking research
on the positive effects of art
education. Studio Thinking provides
art teachers with a research-based
language for describing what they
intend to teach and what students
actually learn.
2007/128 pp./PB, $27.95/4818-3
large format, 30 photos/illustrations
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