Talking about Student Art
by
Terry Barrett
This book provides real-world perspective, samples of critical discussions and presents critiquing strategies that worked, and even some that didn't, in a multitude of educational settings. Sample critiques likewise provide real classroom perspective on dealing with meaning, gender issues, influences and more. Judging student art is also addressed, while general recommendations for interactive group critiques round-out this practicing teacher's guide.
Art Education and Human Development
by
Howard Gardner
Suggested paths that policy and practices should take in the realm of art education are made based on a review of the research done in several areas including specific knowledge about human development and human development from an artistic perspective.
Call Number: N350 .G37 1990
The Arts and Human Development
by
Howard Gardner
Gardner’s classic on the development of creativity. Illustrated throughout with children’s art, this book is a systematic examination of the relation between youthful participation in the arts and the ultimate craftsmanship attained by gifted artists.
Call Number: NX165 .G37
Theories of Development
by
William Crain
Tthis classic text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals
Call Number: BF713 .C72 2011
Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14
by
Chip Wood
This comprehensive, user-friendly reference offers clear descriptions of children’s development from age 4 to age 14. A bestseller, now in its 3rd edition, Yardsticks has helped countless teachers and administrators shape classrooms and schools where all children can succeed.
Community Art in Action
by
Marilyn G. Stewart (Editor); Kristin Congdon
This resource shows how art education programs can be expanded to address community-based and cultural traditions. The text explains how art and aesthetic choices are at the heart of communities and discusses how folklife and community practices are associated with the natural and built environment, different occupations, recreational activities, and ethnic traditions.
Call Number: NX303.A1 C66 2004
Designing for Social Change: Strategies for Community-Based Graphic Design
by
Andrew Shea; William Drenttel (Foreword by); Ellen Lupton (Illustrator)
The latest addition to our Design Briefs series, Designing for Social Change, is a compact, hands-on primer for graphic designers who want to use their unique problem-solving skills to help others. Author Andrew Shea presents ten proven strategies for working effectively with community organizations. These strategies can frame the design challenge and create a checklist to keep a project on track. Twenty case studies illustrate how design professionals and students approach unique challenges when working on a social agenda.
Call Number: NC997 .S455 2012
Making Art Together
by
Mark Cooper; Lisa Sjostrom
Artist Mark Cooper creates remarkable, collaborative art with children, and in this practical book of ideas he shows how it can be done anywhere, with amazing results. Drawing from his own work with classes around the country, Cooper shows how children can create art objects together, from decorated sculptures to billboards against violence to maps of the world. Children learn the way adult artists work—and about how democracy works—in planning, designing, and executing these large-scale works.
Teaching in the Art Museum
by
Rika Burnham; Elliott Kai-Kee
At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constitutes an experience of a work of art? What should be taught and why? What kinds of uniquely valuable experiences are museum educators alone equipped to provide? This book—unlike any other publication currently available—addresses these and myriad other questions and investigates the mission, history, theory, practice, and future prospects of museum education.
Call Number: N430 .B86 2011
Using the Art Museum
by
Denise L. Stone
How can the museum be incorporated into the school curriculum in a meaningful way? The author highlights examples of exemplary programs that engage students in meaningful ways, and provides practical ideas for making your local art museum an exceptional education resource. Reproducible worksheets and checklists for planning your museum trips are included.
The Art of Art Therapy: What Every Art Therapist Needs to Know
by
Judith A. Rubin
"The Art of Art Therapy, first published in 1984, was written primarily to help art therapists first define and then refine a way of thinking about their work. This new edition contains thoroughly revised material that reflects the significant expansion of the field of art therapy in the period since the book was first written.
In the Making: Creative Options for Creative Art
by
Linda Weintraub
From the first page to the last, from Thomas Kinkaid (really!) to Matthew Barney, this book serves as a launching pad. Conclusions are perpetually delayed. Resolutions are continually postponed. The text is written for takeoff, not arrival. It is a first step for readers' explorations of current modes of art making and for their own future artistic achievements.
Art Education for Social Justice
by
Tom Anderson, et al
This book is a collection of stories depicting vision and compassion. The text provides a benchmark in professional efforts toward social justice in a wide array of art education contexts, including community education, K-12 art education, higher education and teacher preparation, international, and multicultural perspectives. Each topic is addressed in chapters written by well-known socially conscious art educators, intertwined with chapters by newer voices in the field.
Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education
by
Susan Cahan (Editor); Zoya Kocur (Editor)
Contemporary art and multicultural education is the first book of its kind to address the role of art within today's multicultural education. Co-published with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, this beautifully illustrated book provides both theoretical foundations and practical resources for art educators and students, combining exquisite color reproductions, statements from contemporary artists and interviews with notable educators.
Call Number: N353 .C66 1996
Gender Matters in Art Education
by
Martin Rosenberg; Frances Thurber
Find out how gender really matters in the artroom. Gender Matters in Art Education translates the theory of gender equity into real practice in the art classroom. The authors provide a coherent review of the important research on gender equity in schools and demonstrate, through concrete, classroom-based examples, the unique opportunities that the art classroom provides for promoting gender equity for both boys and girls.
Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education
by
New Museum Staff; Eungie Joo (Editor); Joseph Keehn (Editor); Jenny Ham-Roberts (Editor)
For over a decade, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education has served as the guide to multicultural art education, connecting everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning. The much-anticipated Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education continues to provide an accessible and practical tool for teachers, while offering new art, essays, and content to account for transitions and changes in both the fields of art and education
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
by
Jonathan Kozol
The Shame of the Nationis a triumph of firsthand reporting that pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, but directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.
Call Number: LC212.62 .K69 2005
Social Justice Art: a framework for activist art pedagogy
by
Marit Dewhurst
Based on interviews and observations of sixteen high schoolers participating in an activist arts class at a New York City museum, Dewhurst identifies three learning processes common to the act of creating art that have an impact on social justice: connecting, questioning, and translating.
Education (Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art)
by
Felicity Allen
These writings by artists, philosophers, educators, poets, and activists center on three recurring and interrelated themes: the notion of "indiscipline" in theories and practices that challenge boundaries of all kinds; the present and future role of the art school; and the turn to pedagogy as medium in a diverse range of recent projects.
Call Number: N90 .E33 2011
A History of Art Education
by
Arthur Efland
Recent debates on the place of the arts in American life has refocused attention on art education in schools. In this book, the author puts current debate and concerns in a well-researched historical perspective. He examines the institutional settings of art education throughout Western history, the social forces that have shaped it and the evolution and impact of alternate streams of influence on present practice.
Call Number: N105 .E35 1990
Roots of Art Education Practice
by
Mary Ann Stankiewicz
Readers will gain insights into the circumstances under which curricular practices originated, and will better appreciate the beliefs that shape art education today. Meet the people who proposed and implemented the changes in the way art should be taught. Discover the origins of the focus on the elements of art and principles of design.
(Curating) from A to Z
by
Jens Hoffmann; Claire Fontaine (Text by)
(Curating) From A to Z offers a summary of the development of curatorial practice over the last two decades seen through the eyes of curator Jens Hoffmann. In this publication each letter of the alphabet evokes a particular word related to the world of exhibition making: From A (as in Artist) and B (as in Biennial) to R (as in Retrospective) and W (as in White Cube).
Manual of Museum Exhibitions
by
Barry Lord (Editor); Maria Piacente (Editor)
Barry Lord and Maria Piacente detail the exhibition process in a straightforward way that can be easily adapted by institutions of any size. They explore the exhibition development process in greater detail, providing the technical and practical methodologies museum professionals need today.