Culture And the Arts in Education: Critical Essays on Shaping Human Experience

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Number Of Pages: 177
• Publication Date: 2006-01
• Sales Rank: 4306106
• ISBN / ASIN: 080774655X
• EAN: 9780807746554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Teachers College Press
• Studio: Teachers College Press
• Book Description:
  

  This collection of Ralph Smith's writings provides a comprehensive overview of his extraordinary contributions to understanding the importance of aesthetics in education. These essays record his lifelong efforts to construct a defensible rationale for the arts in general education and a workable curriculum for art education in our public schools (K-16). The topics covered range from liberal education to arts education, the relationship of art, aesthetics, and aesthetic education to teaching and curriculum, the arts and the humanities, and cultural diversity.

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