Attempts to bring into clearer perspective how art teaching beliefs relate to attitudes and methodology concerning evaluation. Also shows how some common evaluation pitfalls can be avoided without compromising art learning and quality. (Author/RK)

Comments and suggestions are directed to art educators in colleges, art schools, and universities. Evaluates art teachers and their teaching methods, specifically the rhetorical versus the dialogue approach to teaching art. (Author/RK)

Takes issue with two concepts of teaching art history in elementary and secondary schools, reveals selected resources which are readily available for teaching art history, and makes recommendations for the implementation of art history programs where they do not exist and for the improvement of programs where they are to be already found.…

The present president of the NAEA and 13 past presidents examine the development of the NAEA, what it has contributed to art education and what it has meant to each president. (RK)

Article attempted to understand the chronically low or ambiguous status of art in the schools from historical data. (Author/RK)

Article described Jane Addams' Hull House and the broad arts programs which she brought to the near west side immigrant neighborhood of Chicago. (Editor/RK)

Author described the life and times of the San Francisco Art Institute and reviewed the forces that made San Francisco a city of more than ordinary awareness of the arts in its civic and civil existence. (Editor/RK)

Author described the early and amazingly perceptive view Frederick Burk had of the uses the child of three to ten years of age could make of art expression. (Editor/RK)

Author suggested that if professional associations are to assume a leadership function, then professional art educators must examine the values they hold and then make distinctions as to which values they need to support most openly in the art education of children and youth. (Author/RK)

Article discussed the practicalities in art education from the current economic squeeze on art programs to the overworked elementary art teacher attempting to implement art programs of dubious merit. (RK)

This article dealt with some prevailing contradictions and misconceptions in regard to the function of the arts in general education and in aesthetic education. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this paper is twofold: a) to identify fundamental areas which are of concern to researchers in art education, and b) to provide the reader with representative examples of recent studies related to these topics. (Author)