The elementary secondary curriculum in the United States could benefit from redefining the arts as a discipline to be interwoven into the school's curriculum. Four essays in this issue explore the question of the arts in education. John Holdren comments in "Will the Band Play On?" that music educators must stress the serious study of music as its…

A perspective on artistic creativity developed by an artist and a psychologist is presented. The artist approaches art as a semiotic system built upon relations between visual isomorphisms. The psychologist is concerned with the origins of analogical thought in children's symbolic play and its possible maturation into a component of adult…

Young children bring a wide repertoire of visitor behaviours to traditional art museums, using their minds, senses, and bodies to respond to and interpret artworks. When given opportunities for self-expression, choice, and control during an art museum visit, children are empowered in this environment. Allowing children to take a leading role as…

When pupils study interpretations or representations of the past which are neither from their own period nor from the period being interpreted/represented, they are having to employ sophisticated knowledge and skill. Jane Card describes this as "double vision": the pupils must think about "the period depicted" (in this case the…

The goals of visual literacy experiences are to give the student skill in "reading" visuals and in expressing himself and communicating through visuals. (JH)

The basic aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the effects of examiner (or teacher) expectancy on performance over perception tasks related to the visual arts. (Author)

The use of video technology as an alternative form of communications media for artists, teachers, students, and community groups in the United States, Europe, and Third World nations is described. Specific examples of video use in the various countries are outlined and individual characteristics of program organization, production, and…

As part of the background research for their Arts Project, the Agency for Instructional Television has compiled a descriptive list of arts education instructional television programs available for use in schools from kindergarten through grade 12. Programs are listed by title in five categories: (1) Music, (2) Art, (3) Multi-Arts, (4) In-Service,…

Visual and verbal literacy skills are crucial to children because of their relationship to reading, and to adults because of their social utility. Such skills are, paradoxically, among those least often developed in a systematic fashion in elementary schools. One reason for this is that component subskills of visual and verbal literacy are…

This publication contains a conversation about art and drawing between a university professor of arts and a former director of a public school cultural arts program. As part of the National Humanities Faculty Why Series, the book is intended to help students, teachers, and citizens maintain and improve their intellectual vigor and human awareness…

Areas of minor maintenance covered by this manual are--(1) electrical, (2) carpentry, (3) plumbing, (4) painting, and (5) masonry. Each area is defined, tools and equipment for maintenance are listed, and the job procedure is given. The description of electrical work also covers sources of electricity and power transmission. The description of…

For information on the Visual Arts Education Curriculum of which this is one course, see SO 007 721. In this course students study ceramic material, form, and decoration, historically and technically, and demonstrate competencies in preparing clay bodies and ceramic glazes. Course content is outlined in those areas. Special sections of the guide…

This auteuristic analysis of Hollywood filmmaker Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) includes critical commentary, interviews, and a biographical chronology. Six separate articles discuss various facets of Tashlin's films, ranging from the artistic processes involved to critical evaluations of the films. In two interviews, Tashlin elaborates on his…

GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Creative art. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has the following main sections--an introduction to art education, elementary art programs, junior high art program, senior high art program, appendixes (supplies and equipment, audio-visual materials, exhibits, book and periodicals, and glossary).…