What role can district visual art administrators play in articulating an educationally valuable conception of creativity and in establishing a culture that targets creativity as an educational goal? How can art administrators help teachers implement creativity goals? How can they communicate creativity's importance to principals, parents, and…

It is argued that a behavioral objectives approach to dance education is dangerously limited because it is dominated by a particular view of theoretical psychology that attempts to understand skill learning in terms of conditioning and reinforcement. This approach is especially limited in the teaching of creative and expressive dance. (RM)

Through identifying sources and interpreting findings from the fields of medical illustration, psychology, and education, the research described provides the teacher of medical illustration with a framework for promoting in students an active sense of their creative abilities. The need for the study, background information, limitations, and…

Designed for use as a part of the Work Maturity Skills Training Program, this unit consists of instructional materials dealing with exhibiting positive work attitudes. (The Work Maturity Skills Training Program is a set of individualized competency-based units that are designed to help participants develop the competencies they need to find and…

This curriculum guide defines the role and objectives of the art program in the Akron Public Schools at all grade levels. Following a foreword on the role of the art teacher, materials are divided into three sections. Section I outlines the art program at the elementary level. The philosophy of elementary art and the four developmental stages of…

This document is a youth curriculum resource designed to accommodate learners in Australia's Certificates in General Education (CGEA) program. The document begins by discussing the following topics: the curriculum framework; the curriculum's content and its relationship to the CGEA program's numeracy learning outcomes and criteria; successful…