Discusses graphic techniques for producing printed and visual materials for training. Presents six printing and/or lettering techniques, and suggests six visual techniques. Reviews some other systems for in-house graphic arts production. (CSS)

Summarizes the history, nature, and scope of the Chicago Visual Library, a major micropublishing program in the fine arts. (Author)

One way students can be made more aware of their American heritage is through the visual arts program. Explains how elementary school students at the Reed School in the City of Ladue, St. Louis, Missouri, recreated the past in celebration of our nation's Bicentennial. (Author/RK)

Describes one summer offering of the Palo Alto schools which correlates productive activities with appreciation for art. (Author/RK)

Discusses the broad range of ideas and experiences contributed to class discussions by children of different ages in a multi-age group learning situation. (Author/RK)

Our ordinary view of relating to works of art is based on the assumption that they are objects occurring separate from us, detached and independent. Investigates what we need to know in order to appreciate and understand works of art, to bridge the gap between ourselves and the art work. (Author/RK)

This article discusses the creation and use of cut-outs on felt boards for the instruction of French as a second language. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Explores multiculturalism in art and design education, considering whether the tenets of design education are biased in favor of Western cultural traditions. Moving beyond traditional teaching to the reflexive study of non-Western design asks students not to assume that principles of design exist unless they can prove such principles to…

Uses a specific poetics of collage to explore the parallels between artistic and written discourse to show that composing a persuasive collage or hypertext requires rhetorical skill. Shows also how this kind of skill is modeled in the work of the American collage artist Joseph Cornell (1903-72). Discusses intertextuality and postmodern…

Critiques the characterization of "at-riskness," with a focus on adolescents, in light of new media literacies or "media literacies in new times." Uses this reconstruction to redefine and reposition these learners as capable and innovative. Posits a variety of socially and culturally appropriate literacies, rather than…

Applied outdoor experiences may be seen as theater and, as such, can allow a more flexible, integrative approach to outdoor learning. Both the arts (particularly theater) and outdoor experiential learning contain nine common elements, including elements of working with groups, and personal and transpersonal components of experience. Three…

Describes how the author, motivated by Esther Krichevsky's fishprints, introduced fishprinting to a middle school. Students explored the origin of fishprinting and other Japanese arts as well as learned about printmaking, collage, and painting. Maintains that, for children to grow creatively, they need freedom to experiment. (KM)

Describes children's software programs that allow for a great deal of choice and control by children. Programs were selected on the basis of their design, child orientation, and ability to amuse. (RJC)

Describes a poetry-presentation assignment in which students select poems from examples studied in class and prepare oral presentations incorporating visual, dramatic, technical, or musical arts. Describes several student presentations resulting from this assignment. (MM)