Why our schools need the arts / Jessica Hoffmann Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Jessica Hoffmann, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Study and teaching--United States.

Art.

Art--Study and teaching.

Art and society.

United States.

Art and society--United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2008]

Summary:

This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy-one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other_subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subjects, teach our children. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of arts education, offers a set of principles and tools that will be invaluable to advocates already working hard to make the case and secure a strong place for the arts in education. She also reaches out to those who care deeply about education but have yet to consider what the arts uniquely provide. This book is for anyone willing to brave a new terrain in which the arts are finally embraced without apology!

Contents:

The lay of the land. Prelude : what's the difference between science and art? Examples of the arts in education. Responding to objections to the arts in education : lessons from out of school

The case for the arts in education. Prelude : why must we justify the arts in terms of non-arts learning? Introducing unique features of the arts and what students learn

Advocating for the arts in education. Prelude : might failure work as a platform for arts in education advocacy? What counts as advocacy. Practical challenges. Advocacy don'ts and do's

With an eye to the future. Prelude : on painting with a young child. In sum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807748343

080774834X

OCLC:

159921877