The research papers gathered in this volume were presented at the 1994 meeting of the American Educational Research Association as part of the Arts and Learning Special Interest Group program. Papers collected in the volume represent an eclectic view of arts education and include music education. Following an editorial, papers are: "Arts and Knowledge: Context and Comments on Area Symposium" (L. Bresler); "Identifying a Research Art Style in Art Education" (K. Hamblen); S. Smith); "Distinguishing the Effectiveness of a Writing-Intensive DBAE Curriculum: A Quasi-Experimental Study Comparing Three Elementary Classrooms' Written Responses to a Work of Art" (C. S. Stavropoulos); "Dialogue Journals with Preservice Art Teachers: A Study by Three University Student Teacher Supervisors" (M. Schiller; S. Shumard; H. Homan); "The Group Studio Critique as Event: A Problem-Position" (C. S. Jeffers); "The Process of Understanding: Protocol Analysis and Musical Composition" (N. L. Whitaker); and "How Research Has Reified Music Education, Or, the Coda that Dogs the Wag" (C. Adelman). (BT)