ABSTRACT
The Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education marks a milestone in the field of art education. Sponsored by the National Art Education Association and assembled by an internationally known group of art educators, this 36-chapter handbook provides an overview of the remarkable progress that has characterized this field in recent decades. Organized into six sections, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly emerging field: history, policy, learning, curriculum and instruction, assessment, and competing perspectives. Because the scholarly foundations of art education are relatively new and loosely coupled, this handbook provides researchers, students, and policymakers (both inside and outside the field) an invaluable snapshot of its current boundaries and rapidly growing content. In a nutshell, it provides much needed definition and intellectual respectability to a field that as recently as 1960 was more firmly rooted in the world of arts and crafts than in scholarly research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |76 pages
Historical Currents in Art Education
part |139 pages
Policy Perspectives Impacting the Teaching of Art
part |181 pages
Learning in the Visual Arts
part |169 pages
Teaching and Teacher Education
part |111 pages
Forms of Assessment in Art Education
part |140 pages
Emerging Visions of the Field