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Gulla, Amanda Nicole – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2009
Beyond having value as an assessment tool, engagement with the arts in the K-12 classroom can offer aesthetic experiences that have the potential to transform the way students encounter the world, engaging the imagination in acts of perception that stir them to "wide-awakeness." Advocates for the arts in education call for a variety of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Art Education, Aesthetic Education, Art
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Wood, Susan – History of Education, 2009
Embroidery is traditionally regarded as women's work and the teaching of embroidery as a means of preparing young women for domesticity, a view which has been reinforced by historians studying changes in the high school art curriculum that occurred with the introduction of the Wyndham Scheme in New South Wales in the early 1960s. This paper argues…
Descriptors: High Schools, Females, Foreign Countries, Womens Education
Elias, Maurice J.; Klein, Dena A.; DeLuca, Amy; Smith, David R.; Fattal, Laura F.; Bento, Angela; Leverett, Larry – Principal Leadership, 2006
The Laws of Life is an international essay contest and social and emotional learning (SEL) initiative that many school districts use to build students' SEL and related abilities. In the contest, students reflect on their identities--who they are, who they want to become, and what they want their lives to stand for--by writing about the main values…
Descriptors: Graphic Arts, Art Education, Art Expression, Photojournalism