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Discusses the differential components of cultural literacy and notes the complexity of developing a curriculum encompassing cultural literacy. Evaluates the objectives and effects of formal instruction in the quest for c...
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Focuses on the role of music education in a general education. Reviews music education from ancient times to the twentieth century. Argues that effective instruction in music education and the arts is an essential part o...
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If art education is to be a required subject, it needs validation. Needed is an art curriculum development project, similar to 1960 projects in math and physics, that is sponsored by an agency respected both by the acade...
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Discusses instances of federal intervention in education that failed to live up to expectations (support of curriculum reform in the 1960s, civil rights legislation, and equity policy). Suggests that the success of such ...
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Boards of education should not be blamed for their reluctance to treat art seriously. They have a duty to ask hard questions about the educational value of the arts and their place in the schools. It is up to the art wor...
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Art education enriches the store of images that makes comprehension of concepts possible and comprehensive. This is the proper contribution of aesthetic education to language mastery. Aesthetic literacy is as basic as li...
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So long as arts programs restrict themselves to teaching skills of expression, they will not be considered necessary for anyone save prospective artists. The challenge is to produce a curriculum for all students in aesth...
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Disputes the argument that aesthetic education is important because it contributes to learning the three Rs, and argues that aesthetic education should be considered a fourth R because aesthetic response is "a primary fo...
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This paper presents a rationale for including aesthetic education in the traditional elementary and secondary curriculum. By teaching students to perceive images as artists do and to make images as artists do, aesthetic ...
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The theme of this essay is that the faith in public schools, which has rested on the belief that general education for the masses as well as for the elite is necessary for a genuinely democratic society, has been shaken....
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This essay discusses aesthetic education as a special vehicle for value education, in particular the cultivation of imaginative perception. It argues that if imagination is disciplined by thought, and love is justified b...