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Publication Date: 2021
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The U.S. K-12 Art Education Curricular Landscape: A Nationwide Survey
Bertling, Joy G.; Moore, Tara C.
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, v62 n1 p23-46 2021
In the midst of future-oriented dialogues within the field, we turned our attention broadly toward the multiplicity of educational approaches that might characterize U.S. K-12 art education today. Through large-scale descriptive survey research (N = 742), we explored K-12 art teachers' emphasis on 10 common educational approaches: choice-based art education/teaching for artistic behavior (TAB); community-based education; discipline-based art education (DBAE); design education; ecological/environmental education; interdisciplinary education or arts integration; multicultural education; social justice; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)/science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM); and visual/material culture. The results confirm we are in a period of plurality, albeit more defined by visual/material culture and multicultural education. The range of ways in which these 10 educational approaches can exhibit theoretically and in practice raises a number of critical questions. We recommend any future sketches of the field explore these nuances--delving deeper into how each of these curricular movements is conceptualized and enacted in K-12 art education practice.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Art Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Literature Reviews, Teacher Attitudes, Art Teachers, Teaching Methods, Multicultural Education, Social Justice, STEM Education, Design, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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