The papers gathered in this volume were presented at the 1991 meeting of the American Educational Research Association. All the papers were presented as part of the Arts and Learning Special Interest Group (SIG) or were cosponsored by the arts SIG. Following an editorial, papers in this volume are: "Four Types of Women's History and How They Apply to Histories of Women in Art Education" (D. Soucy); "A Propositional View of Environmental Experiencing" (R. W. Neperud); "American Indian Perspectives on Environment and Art" (P. L. Stuhr); "The Inherited Legacy: Art Education in a Postmodern Age (1986)" (J. Jagodzinski); "Technical v. Liberal Content in Art: Schooling and the Reproduction of Divisions in Gender, Class, and Race" (J. Pazienza; P. Amburgy; P. Bolin); "Response to Technical Content in Art: Schooling and Reproduction of Divisions in Gender, Class and Race" (A. N. Johnson); "Historical Sense through the Arts: An Inquiry into Form, Meaning, and Understanding" (M. J. Singer); "Integrating Arts into the Curriculum: Problems and Promises in Critical Perspectives" (P. Salvio); "A Case of Legitimation: Art Education's Movement into the Core Curriculum" (K. A. Hamblen); and "The Development of Invented Music Notations: A Cousin to Invented Spellings" (R. Upitis). (BT)