Intended for researchers, teachers, and administrators, this bibliography covers much of the literature concerned with visual art education and samples materials from the related areas of visual perception, creativity, art therapy, leisure research, and space planning. (Author/SJL)

Comments critically on the Recommendations of the Arts, Americans and Educational Panel concerning "philosophical, substantive, and structural changes" in proposing a national arts education policy. Suggests four themes within the text and recommendations of the Report that should be treated with caution in formulating an arts policy. (Author/RK)

States that the Rockefeller Report, "Coming to Our Senses", reflects the preferences of a particular interest group that has assumed power in cultural and educational matters during the past fifteen years. Critically examines the Report's weaknesses and deficiencies which, says the author, seriously disqualify it as a guide to policy. (Author/RK)

Maintaining one's artistic self while teaching should be a principal goal of art education. The ability to harmonize one's creative powers in teaching and art making should be the foremost competence of each art teacher. (Author)

Attempts to identify many stigmatized groups of people in our society, who have been classified, judged, and dealt with, through institutionalization. These groups have not been able to articulate their rights and art educators should move toward alternate and perhaps broader conceptual bases for art education in relating to stigmatized persons.…

This keynote address suggests that inflation (not monetary, but intellectual, emotional, and social) bars the lay public from accepting art as part of the curriculum. If wild claims (inflation) for art education ceased, and core curriculum were demonstrably well taught, the lay public would trust educators to teach art as well. (KC)

This paper purports that art education in the schools is being taken over by a "conspiracy" of art commissions, rather than leaving art education to art educators. It is suggested that this "cabal" will attempt to replace art educators in decision making relative to curriculum, methodology, certification, and teacher preparation. (KC)

The literature in the area of cultural diversity in art is reviewed, and suggestions are made for an interface art program. "Interface" is described as a good blend of Anglo-conformity (total annihilation of a culture other than White Anglo Saxon Protestant) and separatism (loss of cultural identity) in art education. (KC)

This study was an attempt to ascertain the adequacy of funding for art supplies and equipment in the public schools. The results indicate that a goal of $5.00 to $7.00 per student per year is reasonable, but that schools fall far short of that goal. The results of the survey are included. (KC)

Based on the presumption that art teachers ought to be able to describe the value of what they do and place it within a framework for rationalizing the contributions of their work to the educational development of the students they teach, this research is an attempt to describe what children learn when they paint, draw, or make three-dimensional…

Two-dimensional consciousness is the reality of our phenomenal consciousness, whose contents are varied. Several descriptions as to its contents are presented. These descriptions prepare the groundwork for discussion of the significance of scribbling. (Author/RK)

Describes an art museum program that attempts to test and evaluate various tour techniques, to involve schools in preparation and follow-up activities for museum visits, and to prepare and evaluate materials for the schools which could be incorporated into their curriculum. (Author/RK)

Discusses the "back-to-basics" fallacy, the aesthetic value domain and general education, some problems in arts education, and promising signs and suggestions for the future. (Author/RK)

Develops the case for and the broad outlines of environmental design education. Discusses some of the major issues art teachers may have in implementing the subject. (Author/RK)