Why Our Schools Need the Arts
NEW!
Jessica Hoffmann Davis
( Teachers College Press, Co-published with NAEA)
What would happen if we were allowed to embrace the arts
and not have to apologize for it? This pioneering work argues for the powerful lessons the arts
can provide students. As a cognitive developmental psychologist and founder of the Arts in Education Program at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Davis provides a set of principles and tools for arts advocates and instructors
already working to secure a strong place for the arts in education:
An overview of how the arts t into the content of education today
No. 302. 150 pgs. {2008} ISBN 978-0-80774834-3
$22.00. NAEA Members: $20.00 (plus S/H)
Memory and Experience: Thematic Drawings by Qatari,
NEW!
Taiwanese, Malaysian, and American Children
Al Hurwitz and Karen Lee Carroll
This book presents the largest collection of children’s drawings
made in response to a single method of instruction, as children in four
countries identify personal memories and experiences relating to 10 themes. The drawings were collected
in the 1980s by Al Hur witz and Mahmoud El-Bassiouny, and this edition o ers two of the 1994 essays as
well as new drawings from a replication of the study begun in 2007. Five experts respond to this
collection and explore issues of drawing development, cultural context, stories children tell, the in uence
of popular and visual culture, and drawing methodology.
A unique opportunity to study how children represent personal experiences as well as the ways children’s
drawings are described and analyzed by experts in the eld, this book promises to delight and inform.
No. 300. 320 pgs. 650 images. {2008} ISBN 978-1-890160- 39-5
$29.00. NAEA Members: $23.00 (plus S/H)
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