Identifies and examines patterns of inquiry practiced by art teachers and discusses course content and teacher resources which affect that inquiry. Implications for research and materials development and suggestions for teacher education programs are presented. Concludes that art education research should be made more available to the classroom…

Developing a prison art program involves training prison arts specialists, developing curriculum and instructional strategies, and planning for continuous program support. Through the study of art, prisoners have been able to re-examine themselves and establish new, positive goals. (Author/CS)

One of the current interpretive approaches in social science research is that of the German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer's dialectical hermeneutics sees interpretation as being grounded in an understanding that is historical, dialectical, and linguistic. Describes the author's use of this method in an art education research project.…

Gives a historical analysis of nineteenth-century attitudes toward women, with special focus on the development of art education for women at the College of Fine Arts, Syracuse University. Stereotyped beliefs about female physiognomy and morality justified a conception of art education as a cultural refinement especially suited to women.…

Discusses the philosophical and methodological bonds that exist between ethnography, educational criticism, and naturalistic evaluation. Naturalistic evaluation is ideally suited for exploring many areas of art education, including art learning, aesthetic experience, teacher-student transactions, and art program impact. (Author/CS)

Participant observation methods and ethnographic techniques have developed extensively in educational research in recent years. Reviews some recent contributions, along with their application to educational evaluation and their capacity to provide an alternative to the quantitative tradition of scientific research. (Author/CS)

Studied 72 children for whom the following data were available: IQ score on a conventional test (WISC or Stanford-Binet); Goodenough-Harris drawing test IQ score; and behavior description by the test administrator. Personality traits of children who performed better on either the graphic or conventional IQ test were assessed. (SJL)

The author has developed a graduate art education course to teach students to use the tools of artistic integration as well as those of scientific analysis in the development of theory about art education. Much of her article concerns various theories on disciplinary structures and modes of knowing. (Author/SJL)

This study examined the relationship between the visual elaboration characteristic of paired-associate learning and figural elaboration as found in the graphic representations of preadolescents (ages 8-12) and as measured by nonverbal creativity measures. Significant correlations between figural variables and one or both visual variables were…

Sixty graduate studio art students, 64 graduate English students, and 68 graduate psychology students participated in a study to examine possible differences in career attitudes across sexes and academic majors. Data were obtained from a questionnaire (copy included). Results revealed six chi-square tests of significance between the groups.…

This description of the teaching approach of Henry Schaefer-Simmern emphasizes his use of questioning to evoke student self-evaluation and to develop clarity of vision and interfunctional unity in students' art products and their mental, artistic conceiving. Two case reports of his work with elementary students are included. (Author/SJL)

After 15 lessons on clay modeling skills, modeled and drawn human figures by 41 nursery school children were compared to those by control children on formal elements, structure, and detail. The instructional experience significantly improved subjects' clay figure work. No significant sex effect or skill transfer to drawing was found. (SJL)

Teachers and students who are ethnographers and who study the artifacts and "visual sign making" of their own culture will learn to value and understand the arts, as well as to produce art that matters. (Author)

From this study of kindergarten children, the author concludes that drawing should be recognized as an important educational activity that helps children to learn and remember the visual characteristics of the figures they draw, and that it does so more effectively than does mere observation or tracing of those figures. (Author/SJL)

Thirty middle-class preschoolers (ages three to five) were tested with the Acuff and Sieber-Suppes Manual for coding children's responses to paintings and two forms of the Embedded Figures Test. At age 5, significant positive correlations were found between cognitive style and total cue attendance and two attributes, sensory and organizational.…