These are links to significant research in art education to support our curriculum review.
Please use the Curriculum Review Summary Template in the "G" Drive.
A link to a guide for doing MLA citations is here
Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons from School
Districts that Value Education (1999)
http://www.aep-arts.org/publications/info.htm?publication_id=13
Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on
Learning (1999)
A report that compiles
seven major studies that provide new evidence of enhanced learning and
achievement when students are involved in a variety of arts experiences. http://www.aep-arts.org/publications/info.htm?publication_id=8
Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student
Academic and Social Development (2002)
The Compendium summarizes and discusses 62 research studies that examine
the effects of arts learning on students' social and academic skills.
http://www.aep-arts.org/publications/info.htm?publication_id=10
Beyond the Evidence Given:
A Critical Commentary on Critical Links (2002)
In what sense are the links summarized in Critical Links: Learning
in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, actually
"critical"?
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/Reap/REAPCritLinkResp.htm
Project Zero's project REAP (Reviewing
Education and the Arts Project)
REAP has published a series of
meta-analytic articles reviewing the state of the evidence for transfer
of arts learning to non-arts cognitive achievement.
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/REAP.htm
Executive Summary
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/Reap/REAPExecSum.htm
The Arts and Education: New Opportunities
for Research
Produced by the Arts Education Partnership and a task force chaired by
the American Educational Research Association, this report proposes
opportunities for future research on the arts and education based on a
survey of the significant body of research in the field.
http://www.aep-arts.org/publications/info.htm?publication_id=6
Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 1999–2000
This report presents
information on the characteristics of public elementary and secondary
school arts education programs, including data on the availability of
instruction in the arts, staffing, funding, supplemental programs and
activities, and administrative support of arts education.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/2002131.pdf
Third Space: When Learning Matters
Case study of ten schools investigating the role of the arts in learning and the school culture. "In each of them, studying and/or making works of art (paintings, dances, plays, songs, films, and so on) plays a significant role in their curriculum
and their culture." http://www.aep-arts.org/resources/toolkits/thirdspace/read.htm
Sense-Making Methodology and Art Education:
Moving Beyond Rhetoric to Discover Substance
Barbara Airulla, Ohio State
University Proposed areas of investigation for art education.
http://communication.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sense-making/meet/2005/meet05airulla_lit.pdf
Studio Thinking Project
The arts are of central importance to the education of young minds.
However, educators know surprisingly little about how the arts are
taught, what students learn, and the types of decisions teachers make in
designing and carrying out instruction.
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/StudioThink.htm
Visual Thinking Strategies
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a curriculum and teaching method for students and teachers, founded on the premise that finding meaning in works of visual art involves a rich range of thinking skills. http://www.visualthinkingstrategies.org/research.html
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner (2002). Is exerpted fromThe Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press.
http://www.naea-reston.org/tenlessons.html and a related article
Three Rs Are Essential, but Don’t Forget the A—the Arts By Elliot
Eisner
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3789/ This is Eisners thinking about the unique ways in which the arts form thinking that is valuable in all areas of life. He also describes different approaches to teaching the arts that form the mind.
All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and
Education
Sir Ken Robinson, principle author
Report to: the Secretary of State for Education and Employment and the
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, UK. "To make recommendations to the Secretaries of State on the creative and
cultural development of young people through formal and informal
education: to take stock of current provision and to make proposals for
principles, policies and practice." Full report in PDF
http://www.cypni.org.uk/downloads/alloutfutures.pdf
The Arts Make a Difference
ASCD article by Nick Rabkin Director, Chicago Center for Arts Policy, Columbia College Chicago, author of Putting the Arts Back in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century (Columbia College Chicago, 2004), Nick Rabkin chronicles how pairing the arts with academics raises test scores and gets Chicago kids excited about learning. http://www.ascd.org/authors/ed_lead/el200602_rabkin.html
Chicago Arts Partnership in Education CAPE
Research from Arts infused curriculum in Chicago Public Schools. Investigations include the impact on student achievement (see Catterall), on student cognition (see DeMoss), and on teaching artists (see Waldorf).
http://www.capeweb.org/rcape.html
Artful Thinking
is a program currently in development by Harvard Project Zero in collaboration with the Traverse City, Michigan Area Public Schools (TCAPS). The program is one component of a larger TCAPS grant from the US Department of Education to develop a model approach for integrating art into regular classroom instruction. The purpose of the Artful Thinking Program is to help teachers regularly use works of visual art and music in their curriculum in ways that strengthen student thinking and learning.
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/ArtThink.htm
ArtWorks for Schools
culminated in the development of a program that teaches high-level thinking in and through the arts. The program was developed collaboratively by the DeCordova Museum, Project Zero, Underground Railway Theater, and schools in Cambridge and Lincoln, Massachusetts. The purpose of the program is to help teachers and students discover the power of the arts to enrich high-level cognition across school subjects.
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/ArtWks.htm
The Perpich Center for Arts Education (PCAE)
An agency of the State of Minnesota, and a unique state-of-the-art organization of national stature representing Minnesota’s dedication to excellent education. Curriculum and research resources at this link.
http://www.mcae.k12.mn.us/pdr/pdr_pub.html
New Horizons for Learning
A compilation of articles, readings and links on arts in education.
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/front_arts.htm
Learning, Arts, and the Brain
a study three years in the making, is the result of research by cognitive neuroscientists from seven leading universities across the United States. In the Dana Consortium study, released in March 2008, researchers grappled with a fundamental question: Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter?
http://www.dana.org/news/publications/publication.aspx?id=10760
Full report http://www.dana.org/uploadedFiles/News_and_Publications/Special
_Publications/Learning,%20Arts%20and%20the%20Brain_ArtsAndCognition_Compl.pdf
Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge (TETAC)
This national project offers an integrated method of arts instruction using a multidisciplinary approach titled Comprehensive Arts Education. Fuded by J. Paul Getty Trust and the Annenberg Challenge. http://www.utc.edu/Outreach/SCEA/Intro_TETAC_Report.pdf
The North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts (NTIEVA)
embraces a philosophy that a comprehensive education in the visual arts education can increase learning capacity in children. http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/index.html
AP Studio Art
resources for AP Studio Art Vertical Teams