Author: Madeja, Stanley S.

Publication Year: 1976

Media Type: Report

Summary:

This yearbook is a record of the proceedings of a conference held June 22-26, 1976 at Aspen, Colorado, sponsored jointly by CEMREL, Inc. and the Education Program of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and supported by the National Institute of Education (NIE). It is our hope that both the conference described below and yearbooks such as this will continue on an annual basis as forums for research ideas in the arts, aesthetics, and their place in educational enrichment of our nation.

Abstract:

This yearbook is a record of the proceedings of a conference held June 22-26, 1976 at Aspen, Colorado, sponsored jointly by CEMREL, Inc. and the Education Program of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and supported by the National Institute of Education (NIE). It is our hope that both the conference described below and yearbooks such as this will continue on an annual basis as forums for research ideas in the arts, aesthetics, and their place in educational enrichment of our nation.

Titled The Arts and Aesthetics: An Agenda for the Future the 1976 conference had a broad purpose: constructing a national agenda for research and development in the arts and education.

Traditionally, the arts have been concerned with the creation of the art object or the development of the performance. The primary efforts in the arts and arts education over the last ten years have been devoted to bringing the artist and performance into more prominent position in the school and community. Research in the arts and aesthetics as they relate to education, however, has been a small part of the total national effort in the field. Hence the need for a symposium to highlight the continued need for research in the arts and aesthetics and to assist in setting a research agenda that would complement the growth of the arts in the communities and in the schools.|In order to make the task of the conference a manageable one, the charge to the participants was limited to five specific questions that became the topics for the background papers that are published here and the substance of the discussions by the four seminar groups into which the conference participants were divided . The agenda for research would be developed from the answers to these five questions. The questions were as follows:

1. As we look ahead, what do we see as the major research questions in the arts and/or aesthetics?
2. What do we see as the rationale for conducting research on any one or more of these questions over the next ten years?
3. What effects, if any, do we expect research results to have on the general education of any student at any level?
4. What connections do these questions have to what has already been done in the field?
5. What should be the design for an institute for advanced studies in the arts and aesthetics? (p. 1,2)

CONTENTS
Introduction by Stanley S. Madeja.

Part I. Speeches from the general sessions.

The arts and education today as compared to the sixties by Francis Keppel.
Arts in the future: a pragmatic analysis by Harold L. Hodgkinson.
The state of arts education in American public schools by David Rockefeller, Jr.
The arts and the minorities by Margaret Bush Wilson.

Part II. Surveys and history of research in the arts and aesthetics.

The history of the idea by Harlan Hoffa.
Research in Music education by Charles Leonhard and Richard J. Coldwell.
Research trends in art and art education: 1883-1972 by D. Jack Davis.
Bibliography D. Jack Davis.
Scientific Research in theatre by Gil Lazier.
Exploration of the need for research in selected areas of dance by Alma Hawkins.
Arts councils and art education by Linda Fosberg.
The Research Division of the National Endowment for the
arts: Background and highlights of the first year by Harold Horowitz.
Toward a federal policy for the arts in education by Martin Engel.

Part III. Methodological issues in the arts and aesthetics.

Research on the arts and in aesthetics: some pitfalls, some possibilities by Morris Weitz.
The institutional prospects of aesthetic education by Eugene F. Kaelin and David W. Ecker.
Inquiry into aesthetics education for curriculum making by Arthur W. Foshay.
Some reactions to a concept of aesthetic education by Harry S. Broudy.

Part IV. Researchable problems in the Arts and Aesthetics.

Sifting the special from the shared: Notes toward an agenda for research in Arts Education by Howard Gardner.
Talk about art by David Perkins.
The artworld and aesthetic skills: a context for research and development by Ralph A. Smith and C. M. Smith.
Research and development needs for comprehensive programs in the arts in education at the precollegiate level by Kathryn Bloom.
Needed: Aesthetic learning environments by Anne Taylor.
Man-made environment, visual pollution and controls by George Anselevicius.
Major research questions: to form new alliances by John W. Cataldo.
Structuring a research agenda for the arts and aesthetics by Stanley S. Madeja.
Art and aesthetics (a minority report) by Samella Lewis.
The arts in multicultural education: the case for Asia by Lionel Landry.
Thoughts on an agenda for research and development in arts education by Elliot W. Eisner.

Conference participants and contributors.
Seminar panelists.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education