Author: Bunch, Clarence

Publication Year: 1977

Media Type: Book

Summary:

This guide is an organization of the literature in the varied and diverse field of art education. Subject matter content of the published material has changed considerably over the years. It has varied from teaching drawing as a vocational skill in the early part of the century, to today's art educational use of nonproduct art participation, such as events and happenings as tools for learning.

Abstract:

This guide is an organization of the literature in the varied and diverse field of art education. Subject matter content of the published material has changed considerably over the years. It has varied from teaching drawing as a vocational skill in the early part of the century, to today's art educational use of nonproduct art participation, such as events and happenings as tools for learning.

Because there does not seem to be any generally accepted definition of art education, and because no compilation of this type has been attempted before, selecting publications for a comprehensive bibliography was a difficult task. However, it seems obvious that while many readers have catholic interests, the public for art education literature generally falls into two categories.

These are those books which appeal to art teachers who are basically interested in the elements of art as the core of their instruction. These teachers perceive their function as being one of preparing a student to be an artist, and they think in terms of aesthetic education. They feel they are teaching skills and attitudes that will be used by the student to make a living, as a leisure time activity, or to increase his enjoyment of life through appreciation of art objects. Such a reader audience is inclined toward professional literature which is artist and museum oriented rather than child centered. These readers look to authors for signals within the arts themselves to orient their teaching. They appreciate critical and informational analysis rather than an investigation of the act of teaching, methodology, and child development.

Then there are those books useful to art educators who see people rather than art objects as central to their teaching. This group uses art acts from painting to participation, to work with children and adults in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, parks, streets, and in any of the many and varied places where people carry on their lives. Their expectations are that children and adults who participate in art will benefit from creative involvement, and that subject matter information learned in that active, physical way becomes a part of one's normal reaction to life. The attitude about art gained as a result of participation in art acts, they feel, is more important than any fact learned. It becomes a part of the integral personality and helps sustain the student throughout his lifetime.

Given the great diversity of theory and practice in the field it was difficult to decide which publications to include in this volume. This author finally devised a rule of thumb: if a book was about art or art methods, and if its author in any substantial or serious way discussed using the book's content with children and/or adults, then it qualified as an art education book. Therefore, there are few books which deal exclusively with art, craft, or how to instruction annotated here, even though they make a substantial body of work that publishers today direct toward teachers in the field. (p. XIII, XIV, XV.)

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments.
Preface.

Chapter 1. General reference sources. 
                        Bibliographies. 
                        Indexes and directories. 
                        Dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Chapter 2. Periodicals and serials.
Chapter 3. Organizations and publishers.
Chapter 4. History of art education and early industrial design.
Chapter 5. Art schools.
Chapter 6. General philosophy and methods.
Chapter 7. Early childhood philosophy and methods.
Chapter 8. Elementary philosophy and methods.
Chapter 9. Middle School philosophy and methods.
Chapter 10. Secondary philosophy and methods.
Chapter 11. Higher education.
Chapter 12. Continuing education.
Chapter 13. Museum art education.
Chapter 14. Art in general education and interdisciplinarhy art education . 
                        Art in general education. 
                        Interdisciplinary art education.
Chapter 15. International art education. 
                        General. 
                        Africa. 
                        Australia. 
                        Bali. 
                        France. 
                        Germany. 
                        Great Britain. 
                        India. 
                        Soviet Union. 
                        Spain. 
                        Sweden.
Chapter 16. Research.
Chapter 17. Measurement.
Chapter 18. Curriculum building.
Chapter 19. Creativity and creative development.
Chapter 20. Exceptional and disadvantaged children.
Chapter 21. Art appreciation.
Chapter 22. Religion.
Chapter 23. Art teacher examinations and career guidance. 
                        Art teacher examinations. 
                        Career guidance.
Chapter 24. Supervision and student teaching of art.
Chapter 25. Artists as teachers.
Chapter 26. Teaching processes and materials. 
                        Air art and event-structures.
                        Architecture.
                        Clay.
                        Color.
                        Costuming. 
                        Crafts.
                        Crayons. 
                        Design. 
                        Dramatics.
                        Drawing.
                        Environment.
                        Fibers and fabrics. 
                        Film.
                        Finger painting.
                        Found material.
                        Jewelry and metal craft. 
                        Lettering.
                        Mosaics.
                        Movement.
                        Murals.
                        Painting.
                        Paper and cardboard.
                        Papier mache.
                        Photography.
                        Play.
                        Plaster-of-Paris.
                        Posters.
                        Printmaking.
                        Puppets.
                        Sculpture. 
                        Toys.
                        Video and other media.
                        Wire. 
                        Wood.
Chapter 27. Teacher resource materials. 
                        General interest.
                        Audiovisual.
                        Bulletin boards and exhibition techniques.
                        Folios and reproductions.
                        Films, filmstrips, and slides.
                        Free and inexpensive materials. 
                        Television. 
                        Other media.
Chapter 28. Facilities for teaching art. 
                        General interest.
                        Early childhood.
                        Elementary. 
                        Secondary. 
                        Higher education.
                        Playgrounds.
Chapter 29. Financing art education.
Chapter 30. Art education textbooks.
Chapter 31. Children's art books.

Author index.
Title index.
Subject index.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education