Artful Teaching: Integrating the Arts for Understanding Across the Curriculum, K-8

by David M. Donahue, Jennifer B. Stuart

Overview

The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, they carefully describe how the arts offer an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn. The book includes rich and lively examples of public school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter, including English, social studies, science, and mathematics. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts every day, in every school, to reach every child. Both a practitioner's guide and a school reform model, this important book:

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.

Explores intensive teacher-education and principal-training programs now underway in several higher education institutions.

Offers concrete ideas for educators who are looking to strengthen their own skills and improve student opportunities for learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807750803
Publisher:	Teachers College Press
Publication date:	06/21/2010
Series:	0
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	440,928
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

David M. Donahue is associate professor of education at Mills College, Oakland, California. Jennifer Stuart is arts coordinator at San Francisco Friends School.

Table of Contents

Foreword Cyrus E. Driver vii

Introduction: Five Best Questions About Arts Integration: What to Ask Before Your Start David M. Donahue Jennifer Stuart Todd Elkin Arzu Mistry 1

Part I Essential Questions About The Arts and Integration

1 What Is Art? Laurie Polster 19

2 How Does Art Connect to Social Justice? David M. Donahue Jennifer Stuart Todd Elkin Arzu Mistry 31

Part II Art for Every Child

3 Creating Alliances for Arts Learning and Arts Integration Louise Music 45

4 Seeing Is Believing: Making Our Learning Through the Arts Visible Stephanie Violet Juno 57

Part III Art In Every School

5 Leadership for and in the Arts Lynda Tredway Rebecca Wheat 71

6 Arts Integration: One School, One Step at a Time Debra Koppman 79

7 Musical People, a Musical School Sarah Willner 89

Part IV Art Every Day

8 Visual Prompts in Writing Instruction: Working with Middle School English Language Learners Dafney Blanca Dabach 103

9 Creativity as Classroom Management: Using Drama and Hip-Hop Evan Hastings 111

10 Keeping Reading and Writing Personal and Powerful: Bringing Poetry Writing and Bookmaking Together Cathleen Micheaels 122

11 Learning and Teaching Dance in the Elementary Classroom Patty Yancey 138

12 Working with K-12 Students: Teaching Artists' Perspectives Ann Wettrich 148

Afterword Lois Hetland 159

About the Editors and Contributors 167

Index 171

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“It is a privilege to reread these chapters and to look back on their wisdom from the vantage point of our present time. More than a decade later, there is still so much relevance and wisdom in the chapters of Artful Teaching. This book is a resource for teachers in the field today and those who are preparing to enter the field. It is the spirit of this publication, a spirit that urges us to share practice and connect with each other, that is the real hope for all of us.”
—From the Foreword by Louise Music, arts educator

“Artful Teaching’s second edition updates a friendly cyclone that swept many educators from the dreary slog of ‘doing school’ into the generative and rigorous act of artistic research. Current, pertinent examples and sage advice from an array of arts-integration protagonists scaffold learning experiences that are deep, contextual, connected, and optimistic. This pedagogy will cultivate imagination and hope in students and equip them to find and solve complex problems in their ever-challenging worlds.”
—Anne Thulson, art education professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver

“The second edition of Artful Teaching comes at just the right time. Although so much has occurred in the world since the first edition, the articles remain vital and useful to our work as arts educators. In many ways and given the situation today, they are even more important. Rereading these, I am reminded how germane this research is and how necessary it is for new teachers. I kept thinking as I read, ‘Whoa, this is great, how did I forget about it? I need to use it in class with preservice teaching students.’ I am pleased that Artful Teaching is coming out in a second edition so that a new generation can have it as a resource.”
—Eric Engdahl, professor and chair, Department of Teacher Education, Cal State East Bay

Editorial Reviews

Provides a thorough guide to integrating art into other disciplinary subjects...recommended.”

—SchoolArts

“Recommended.”

—Choice

From the Publisher