The "Out of the Box" Festival of Early Childhood is a unique public event in Australia designed to enrich the creative and cultural lives of children aged 3-8 years and their communities. The research linked to this festival is based on the premise that parents' participation in, and value of the arts, impacts engagements with, and value…

This volume summarizes the findings from a cross-site analysis of seven sites that were implementing a discipline-based approach to visual arts education. A discipline-based approach incorporates four art disciplines: art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art making. The study focused on two major areas: factors generating support for a…

The purpose of this booklet is to draw attention to the need for a serious visual arts education program, to describe the experiences of seven school districts that are developing such programs, and to discuss the factors and issues involved in revitalizing visual arts instruction. An introductory section summarizes findings from a study in which…

The purpose of this research project was to explore ways of developing an understanding of the art of early adolescents and to clarify the variety, intent, and expressive qualities of that art as seen by the adolescents themselves. As a first step in the project, a 3-week summer class for 38 eighth-grade youngsters was conducted on the campus of…

This report covers the findings from a cross-site analysis of seven sites that were implementing a discipline-based approach to visual arts education. A discipline-based approach incorporates four art disciplines in the classroom: art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art making. The study focused on two major areas: (1) factors generating…

This volume reports the findings from a cross-site analysis of seven school districts that were implementing a discipline-based approach to visual arts education. A discipline-based approach incorporates four art disciplines in the classroom: art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art making. The study focused on two major areas: (1) factors…

This paper reviews some of the recent research relative to the thoughts and writings of the English art critic, Clive Bell, one of the leaders in British art criticism for the first part of the 20th century. Bell's conception of "art as significant form" is considered with specific reference to the following educators: (1) Roger Fry and…

This paper presents research using a computer with a video disk player to do aesthetic analysis of the work of Vincent Van Gogh. A discussion of the video disk system, and of several software systems including: (1) Dr. Halo, (2) Handy, (3) PC-Paint, and (4) Pilot are outlined. Several possible uses of the computer with interactive video disks for…

This study deals with variables affecting the successful introduction of a program in aesthetic education. The Aesthetic Education Project is an innovative elementary level art program that reduces the traditional emphasis on skill development while increasing the emphasis on perceptual development, art appreciation, and appreciation of the…

Two experimental groups and a control group of elementary art education students were enrolled in three sections of a class designed to overcome established, frequently limited, attitudes towards art. All three groups were exposed to identical content combining the stages of art criticism with several theories of art. Teaching strategies, drawn…

This report recounts the findings of a study of people who purchased "Looking into Painting" materials, a learning package developed by the Personal and Cultural Education (PACE) Sector of the Continuing Education area in England's Open University. The package is not part of any course of study leading to a qualification, and there is no…

The purposes of this study were to describe and define nonschool education according to curricular elements, suggest relationships between school and museum curricular elements and perspectives, and construct a heuristic device for curriculum elements and perspectives that will guide further study. Using a curricular model from "A Study of…

ON THE BASIS OF THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT EDUCATION NEEDS TO DEVELOP CHILDREN'S FEELINGS AS MUCH AS THEIR ABILITIES TO RETAIN FACTS AND UNDERSTAND CONCEPTS AND THAT INSTRUCTION IN THE AREA OF AESTHETICS IS POSSIBLE, THIS STUDY DESCRIBES AND EVALUATES A PROGRAM FOR PRIMARY CHILDREN IN WHICH MOVEMENT EXPLORATION IS EMPLOYED TO DEVELOP AESTHETIC CONCEPTS.…