This paper attempted to learn what it is that one appreciates in the process of learning about art. (RK)

Article considered the proper aims of an art education and the importance for the child to learn to express himself in the language of his art. (RK)

Author describes two instructive ways of illustrating the principal business of aesthetic education and summarizes the way in which the notion of a form of understanding is dealt with by Dearden. (Author/RK)

This paper discussed an effort to prepare and test curricular materials in art in response to a call for art curricula that are more relevant to today's student than those more traditionally process-product oriented ones. (Author/RK)

The arts are in trouble in the public schools, says the author. This article is intended to clarify the kind of investigation that artists and educators are counting on to supply some support for the balanced curriculum, that is, the inclusion of the arts in public education. (Author/KC)

The author describes the functions of the two hemispheres of the brain and suggests that educators must learn more about the human brain and set up learning environments where its traits in all individuals may be identified, nurtured, and refined. (KC)

It is suggested that the right hemisphere of the brain--the creative, visual, imaginative--is being ignored in today's classroom, and ways of correcting this are presented. It is in this way that humanistic qualities may be established in existing curriculum. (KC)

This article describes a three-part evaluation process: (1) developing and designing the evaluation; (2) examining the information collected; and (3) refining and improving the art education program. (KC)

The author describes several higher education classes he has taught in an attempt to test out approaches to nondirective, unstructured art education classes and the students' responses to such approaches. (KC)

The author examines the scope, content, and character of research in art education, and its bearing on practice. Rejecting the "consumer" idea that research will identify the most efficient teaching technique, she likens teaching to medicine as an art, in which research provides a background for professional judgment. (SJL)

The author notes a trend in educational research away from the scientific model and toward new designs emphasizing process, context, personal, and qualitative concerns. He describes the approach he uses at Stanford, educational connoisseurship or educational criticism, and outlines its basic components: discernment, description, interpretation,…

After reviewing the purposes and methods of educational research, the author outlines the areas of basic research relevant to arts education: cognitive and developmental theory, learning, and teaching as a human interaction. He briefly considers the role of the National Institute of Education in delineating and supporting research. (SJL)

The author outlines four main orientations in the history of aesthetics and relates each to a specific theoretical orientation in psychology. He suggests that these four alignments can serve as categories for distinctive teaching traditions presented in the literature of art education. (SJL)

The author examines the tenets, historical antecedents, and implications of the current art education theory of "planned eclecticism," which encourages relatively free curriculum content choices, subject only to the psychosocial context of the school. He questions the theory's dependence on sociological theories and scientific methodologies for…

For art to survive in the schools, a new image must be presented to the public. Art should be distinguished from crafts, which have a purely recreational connotation, and promoted as a utilitarian subject, teaching fundamental production skills leading toward mastery, as the Suzuki method does in music. (SJL)