Full Description
Both a practitioner's guide and a school reform model, the new edition of this popular book shares exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, each chapter carefully describes how the arts offer an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn to assist teachers in developing their own philosophy and practice. This updated second edition features scholarship and art at the forefront of contemporary practice and addresses social justice issues such as racial, climate, and economic justice. Chapter authors provide concrete ideas along with lively examples of public-school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter that includes English, social studies, science, and mathematics. The book's narrative approach makes arts integration accessible and understandable to novice and experts alike. Readers of this new edition will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts every day, in every school, to reach every child.
Book Features:
Explains how arts integration across the K-8 curriculum contributes to student learning.
Features examples of how integrated arts education functions in classrooms when it is done well.
Introduces historical and contemporary artists whose work is transdisciplinary.
Brings together and speaks to diverse stakeholders, including classroom teachers, teaching artists, school administrators, and teacher educators.
Explores intensive teacher-education and principal-training programs now underway in several higher education institutions.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)Foreword to the Second Edition by Louise Music
Introduction: Questions to Ask Yourself About Arts Integration: What to Ask Before Your Start
David M. Donahue and Jennifer Stuart (with Todd Elkin and Arzu Mistry)PART I: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ARTS AND INTEGRATION
1. What Is Art?
Laurie Polster2. How Does Art Connect to Social Justice?
David M. Donahue, Jennifer Stuart, Todd Elkin, and Arzu MistryPART II: ART FOR EVERY CHILD
3. Creating Alliances for Arts Learning and Arts Integration
Louise Music4. Seeing Is Believing: Making Our Learning Through the Arts Visible
Violet HarloPART III: ART IN EVERY SCHOOL
5. Leadership for and in the Arts
Lynda Tredway and Rebecca Wheat6. Arts Integration: One School, One Step at a Time
Debra Koppman7. Musical People, a Musical School
Sarah WillnerPART IV: ART EVERY DAY
8. Visual Prompts in Writing Instruction: Working with English Language Learner Middle Schoolers
Dafney Blanca Dabach9. Creativity as Classroom Management: Using Drama and Hip-Hop
Evan Hastings10. Keeping Reading and Writing Personal and Powerful: Bringing Poetry and Bookmaking Together
Cathleen Micheaels11. Learning and Teaching Dance in the Elementary Classroom
Patty Yancey12. Teaching Artists—A Vital Link Toward a Thriving Ecosystem
Ann WettrichAfterword by Lois Hetland
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
