Arts Books

New and Published Books

1. Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

   A Way Out of No Way

   Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, Gilda L Sheppard, George W. Noblit, Thomas Barone

   A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art,...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth

   Building Culturally Responsive, Critical and Creative Education in School and Community Contexts

   By Sharon Verner Chappell, Christian J. Faltis

   The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth offers a critical sociopolitical perspective on working with emerging bilingual youth at the intersection of the arts and language learning. Utilizing research from both arts and language education to explore the ways they work in tandem to contribute to...

   Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Curricular Conversations

   Play is the (Missing) Thing

   By Margaret Macintyre Latta

   Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

   The central theme of Curricular Conversations is this: Play is the thing that brings aesthetic curricular complications near educators and their students, making the lived consequences very vivid, tangible, and possible. Viewing curriculum as genuine inquiry into what is worth knowing, rather than...

   Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Debates in Art and Design Education

   Edited by Nicholas Addison, Lesley Burgess

   Series: Debates in Subject Teaching

   Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching. It introduces key issues, concepts and tensions in order to help art educators develop a critical approach to their practice in response to...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Arts in Education

   An introduction to aesthetics, theory and pedagogy

   By Mike Fleming

   Do the arts improve academic achievement? What does it mean to ‘teach’ art? What should the balance of classic and pop be in the music curriculum? Should we encourage young children on the stage? How do we judge whether what a child produces is good? How do we justify the arts in the curriculum?...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Art and Social Justice Education

   Culture as Commons

   Edited by Therese M. Quinn, John Ploof, Lisa J. Hochtritt

   Art and Social Justice Education offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
7. Art Teaching

   Elementary through Middle School

   By George Szekely, Julie Alsip Bucknam

   Art Teaching speaks to a new generation of art teachers in a changing society and fresh art world. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it presents fundamental theories, principles, creative approaches, and resources for art teaching in elementary through middle-school. Key sections focus on how children...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education

   2nd Edition

   By New Museum

   For over a decade, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education has served as the guide to multicultural art education, connecting everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning. The much-anticipated Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
9. Teaching the Arts to Engage English Language Learners

   By Margaret Macintyre Latta, Elaine Chan

   Series: Teaching English Language Learners across the Curriculum

   Written for prospective and practicing visual arts, music, drama, and dance educators, Teaching the Arts to Engage English Language Learners offers guidance for engaging ELLs, alongside all learners, through artistic thinking. By paying equal attention to visual art, music, drama, and dance...

   Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
10. Understanding Art Education

    Engaging Reflexively with Practice

    By Nicholas Addison, Lesley Burgess, John Steers, Jane Trowell

    What is distinctive about art and design as a subject in secondary schools? What contribution does it make to the wider curriculum? How can art and design develop the agency of young people? Understanding Art Education examines the theory and practice of helping young people learn in and beyond the...

    Published November 29th 2009 by Routledge