Recently added articles from Studies in Art Education:
Imagination and Speculation as Historical Impulse: Engaging Uncertainties within Art Education History and Historiography
Jan 01, 2009; ... Through the presentation of three historical accounts, this article explores the roles imagination and speculation may play within the writing and study of history. By looking at these three incidents, each drawn from the history and historiography of art education over the past 150 years, ...
Distance Art Education: The Federal School and Social Engineering in the United States, 1900 to 1925
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Federal School was a correspondence art school in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the early 20th century. At that time, scientific methods changed the organization and practice of commercial art training and industrial education, which included correspondence courses from the Federal School ....
Koorah Coolingah-Children Long Ago: Art from the Stolen Generation of Australia
Jan 01, 2009; ... Recently, artwork of child artists from the Carrolup settlement school in Western Australia was rediscovered in the archives of the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University. The young artists were among what was then called the half-caste children and now known as the Stolen Generation. Between ...
Art Historical Appropriation in a Visual Culture-Based Art Education
Jan 01, 2009; ... Critical art histories have strategically contributed to the constitution of visual culture studies as an interdisciplinary field that interprets the mediations of mass-produced imagery in contemporary culture. This article advocates for an anti-historicist perspective of art historical ...
A Descriptive Study of Multi-Age Art Education in Florida
Jan 01, 2009; ... Multi-age classrooms feature the purposeful grouping of students from two or more grade levels in order to form communities of learners. During the past 40 years, multi-age education has been examined in literature and research in many different ways and contexts. In the subject area of visual ...
Bases of Preservice Art Teachers' Reflective Art Judgments
Jan 01, 2009; ... This descriptive study investigates the bases used to support judgments of artworks by preservice art teachers at two large universities. Bases art teachers might use to judge artwork range from personal preferences, to cultural expectations, to criteria drawn from values of various artworlds ....
AP Studio Art as an Enabling Constraint for Secondary Art Education
Jan 01, 2009; ... Advanced Placement (AP) Studio Art is an influential force in secondary art education as is evident in the 31,800 portfolios submitted for review in 2008 (A. Sims-Gunzenhauser, personal communication, August 11, 2008). From the perspectives of a high school educator and AP Reader, I have ...
What the Best College Teachers Do: Implications for Teaching Art Education Methods Courses for Elementary Majors
Jan 01, 2009; ... What the Best College Teachers Do: Implications for Teaching Art Education Methods Courses for Elementary Majors Ken Bain. Boston, MA: The President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01325. During the 2006-07 academic year, we came together in a doctoral seminar intended ...
Democracy 2.0
Jan 01, 2009; ... Democracy in America: The National Campaign, a non-partisan public arts project, ran concurrently with the 2008 presidential campaign and election in the United States (US). The purpose of this project was to "take the temperature of artists' relationships with, and reactions, to the historic ...
Legacies and Lineages
Oct 01, 2008; ... Two events this past spring directed my attention toward lineages and legacies within Art Education. First were the sessions at the Spring 2008 National Art Education Association (NAEA) Convention memorializing June King McFee. In remembering McFee, several generations of former students and ...
Theorizing Experience: Four Women Artists of Color
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article derives from a qualitative study in which four women artists/educators of color shared narratives of the input of feminism and ethnicity in various areas of their lives that included identity, education, professional activity, and artmaking. The scope of the article is limited to ...
ReMapping the City: Palimpsest, Place, and Identity in Art Education Research
Oct 01, 2008; ... The built environment has a long history of study within the field of art education as the site of material and visual culture that is reflective of, and constructed by, cultural values, traditions, and norms. As our understanding of place is challenged by postmodern theories of culture and ...
Targeting "Plan Colombia": A Critical Analysis of Ideological and Political Visual Narratives by the Beehive Collective and the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article compares the Beehive Collective's "Plan Colombia" to a museum exhibition representing the official U.S. position on Plan Colombia. Through a dialectical (Kellner & Share, 2007; Greene, 1988) reading of "Plan Colombia" and "Target America," I examine how each uses visual ...
Children, Objects, and Relations: Constructivist Foundations in the Reggio Emilia Approach
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article examines how children's construction of relationships in exploring materials helps to explain the constructivist foundations of the Reggio Emilia approach. A quasi-naturalistic study of 12 preschool children, ages 3 and 4 years, individually exploring different kinds of collage ...
Both Sides Now: Visualizing and Drawing with the Right and Left Hemispheres of the Brain
Oct 01, 2008; ... Neuroscience research provides new models for understanding vision that challenge Betty Edwards' (1979, 1989, 1999) assumptions about right brain vision and common conventions of "realistic" drawing. Enlisting PET and fMRI technology, neuroscience documents how the brains of normal adults ...
Arts Integration as a Catalyst for High School Renewal
Oct 01, 2008; ... The director of a small career academy of the arts in a public high school reflects on the conflicting demands to establish a college-preparatory program adhering to state standards and to facilitate the personal growth, artistic discovery, and democratic empowerment of teens. By narrating ...
Aesthetics Making Meaning
Oct 01, 2008; ... Aesthetics matter because through aesthetic practices people make individual and collective meaning. Consider two different senses in which making meaning can be understood as central curricular goals of art education-one, is to engage and understand artworks through active interpretation;1 a ...
Taking Our Citizenship Seriously
Jul 01, 2008; ... The impetus for this special issue of Studies in Art Education on policy is traceable to Laura Chapman's ongoing critique of the No Child Left Behind Act of 200 1 and its implications for public education generally, and education in the arts specifically. Another motivation for this issue of the ...
A Comparative Approach to Art Education Policy Research
Jul 01, 2008; ... The challenges and opportunities of globalization require art education scholars and practitioners to develop international competencies, but research in the specific field of comparative art education is very limited at present. In this article, I provide a pragmatic framework for studying art ...
Troubling the IRB: Institutional Review Boards' Impact on Art Educators Conducting Social Science Research Involving Human Subjects
Jul 01, 2008; ... This article seeks to explore ways in which academic researchers' investigations and representations have been shaped by the demands of human subjects research protocols and Internal Review Board (IRB) policies. The authors explore prescriptive procedures that dissuade, if not preclude, art ...