The Arts and Education Reform: Where is the Model for Teaching "the Arts"?

Addresses the argument that the arts can empower education reform through two means: (1) teaching all children the arts and (2) teaching the arts as central to all learning. Conveys that by concentrating on aesthetic literacy and the nonuniversality of children's artistic development, arts educ...

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Published in:Arts education policy review 1997-01, Vol.98 (3), p.2-9
Main Author: Rush, Jean C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetic Education
Art Education
Child development
Childrens Art
Cognitive Processes
Discipline Based Art Education
Education reform
Educational Change
Elementary Education
Elementary schools
Knowledge Level
Talent
Teaching
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Summary:Addresses the argument that the arts can empower education reform through two means: (1) teaching all children the arts and (2) teaching the arts as central to all learning. Conveys that by concentrating on aesthetic literacy and the nonuniversality of children's artistic development, arts educators will gain support for teaching the arts in elementary schools. (CMK)
ISSN:1063-2913
1940-4395
DOI:10.1080/10632913.1997.9935097