Recently added articles from Art Education:
EDITORIAL
Nov 01, 2008; ... No matter what I do as editor, how the reviewers advise me, or what the authors submit, this journal first and foremost functions only because you read it. Even then its purpose, effect, and meaning depend upon not only if, but how you read. As this is my last issue as editor of this journal, I ...
Image, Text, and Story: Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom
Nov 01, 2008; ... Comics and graphic novels are powerful teaching tools; reading and making comics encourages students to become more skilled at critically consuming and creating texts that examine complex concepts (Frey 8c Fischer, 2004; Morrison, Bryan, & Chilcoat, 2002; Berkowitz & Packer, 2001) ....
When Vines Talk: Community, Art, and Ecology
Nov 01, 2008; ... Place ... is sometimes a setting, but is most often married to memory, imagination, and our embodied experiences in such a way that words like emplaced, displaced, replaced, or out-of-place conjure up meanings that are felt immediately and viscerally. It is a mixed group of community ...
Build-A-Bear Workshop: Its Aesthetic and Ideology
Nov 01, 2008; ... A new responsibility given to today's educators is to help students understand the popular visual culture that they experience everyday. Art teachers can make a unique contribution to that understanding by examining the ideological messages of visual culture through their aesthetic features. In ...
The Social Life of Objects: Interpreting Our Material Culture
Nov 01, 2008; ... Recommended for grades 8-12 Works of art are just one type of the many objects we encounter, make, and use in our everyday lives. Objects have a social life because of the many roles they serve in our construction of daily life. Art and objects are made and collected for many reasons ....
Residential Learning Communities and the Professional Development of Art Educators
Nov 01, 2008; ... Casey and Imaan stepped purposefully along the sunny path by the river, and shared thoughts about the previous day's activities. They had just finished a quick breakfast with several fellow art teachers, where conversation ricocheted across the table at the speed of Olympic ...
Finding Value(s) for a Currency of Caring: Exploring Children's Picture Books, A Dollar Bill, and Fine Art Sources
Nov 01, 2008; ... Interrelated visual sources can provide powerful insights into the cultural messages, aesthetic power, and contemporary relevance of visual images (Darts, 2004; Duncum, 2000; Freedman, 2000; Smith-Shank, 2004). Thus, this article connects fine art, children's picture book illustrations, and the ...
Art Café: A 3D Virtual Learning Environment for Art Education
Nov 01, 2008; ... As art education enters the 21 st century, we must recognize that the culture in which our students live is quite different from the culture of earlier generations. Digital visual culture is now pervasive in the lives of the young generation. Growing up with innovative digital media, many of our ...
EDITORIAL
Sep 01, 2008; ... Risk is not a word taken lightly in contemporary education. Understandably, a "risk-conscious" and "risk-obsessed" culture seems to permeate school climate due to the horrific acts of violence in recent years. In addition to the natural and humanmade dangers associated with the general ...
Letters to the Editor
Sep 01, 2008; ... Dear Editor The March issue of Art Education contains many highly relevant and fascinating articles that I will share with my preservice art teachers. I am very impressed with the quality of the writing, information, variety, and depth of the viewpoints included-and was riveted ...
Celebrating the Artmaking of Children with Autism
Sep 01, 2008; ... This article addresses the art process of some celebrated artists with autism, such as Nadia (1977), Stephen Witshire (1987, 1995), and Jessica Park (1967, 2001). There is a limited amount of literature and research in the field of art education on children with autism who demonstrate talent and ...
A Visual Culture of Stigma: Critically Examining Representations of Mental Illness
Sep 01, 2008; ... For Valentine's Day in 2005, The Vermont Teddy Bear Company sparked controversy with its creation of the "Crazy for You" bear. The bear wore a straightjacket with a small heart embroidered on the front. A tag with the words "Commitment Report" came with the bear. This tag stated, "Can't Eat, ...
What's Going On in Room 13?
Sep 01, 2008; ... Room 13 is an ongoing collaborative work of art. It's about teaching thinking through making art. Room 13, an innovative collaborative art studio at Caol Primary School in the Scottish Highlands, provides distinct advantages for children who want to make art. Danielle Souness, who was ...
ZOOMing in on Nature: A Closer Look at the Food Chain
Sep 01, 2008; ... Citizens of an eco-conscious society are concerned about protecting the wellbeing of nature from [the effects of] global warming and preventing the extinction of endangered species by deforestation. When it comes to looking closely at nature, however, people tend to overlook the small species ...
A Museum Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Adventure with Preservice Teachers
Sep 01, 2008; ... "Why don't you practice what you preach?" How many times have we heard, said, or thought that? As an art education professor, I plead guilty as charged. Contrary to what I advocate, I plan each semester of my art education methods and practicum courses with a tightly scheduled and ...
Measuring Student Learning in Art Education
Sep 01, 2008; ... In this article, I explore the idea of measuring student learning in art education and endorse a method of assessment for use by art educators. My interest in assessment began early in my teaching career. I became aware then that there was a lack of emphasis among art educators toward ...
Digital Portfolios in Visual Arts Classrooms
Sep 01, 2008; ... WHEN I WAS A DOCTORAL STUDENT at Northern Illinois University, Dr. Stanley Madeja (professor emeritus) asked me to assist with the Illinois portion of a three-state art assessment training and research project. The Illinois project brought together 20 art teachers from ten K-12 public school ...
Corporeal Pedagogy and Contemporary Video Art
Mar 01, 2008; ... A mode of audio-visual production called the "video essay" proliferated in the past decade. Noted by a video practice that is artistic, theoretical, and political, the video essay marks a distinct aesthetic strategy, one that I argue is premised on a mode of relationality. According to Ursula ...
Interactions with Sound: An Interview with Sound Artist Stephen Vitiello
Mar 01, 2008; ... In a school of the arts known for its faculty who break new ground, an unusual collaboration occurred between sound artist, Stephen Vitiello, and eight inner-city school children.The resulting installation became a unique example of dialogical art, in which Vitiello and the children brought ...
INDIGENOUS AESTHETICS: Universal Circles related and connected to everything called life
Mar 01, 2008; ... Dealing with diversity components when designing and implementing units can be challenging. How does one know if the approach is appropriate, or the images authentic, or the interpretations suitable? Some art educators propose to widen the scope to include curricula and approaches that are ...