Art Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy

   By Malcolm Ross

   The constituency for education and therapy in the arts is rapidly expanding beyond the conventional school and clinical settings to include the wider community. In Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy, Malcolm Ross integrates traditional Chinese Five Element Theory, also known as The Five...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
4. Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School… The Arts

   Drama, Visual Art, Music and Design

   By Martin Fautley, Jonathan Savage

   Series: Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in...

   The school curriculum is a contested arena. There are competing pressures from those who advocate that it should be constructed on a subject specific basis, whereas at the other end of the continuum is the stance taken by this book, that learning, and especially learning in the arts, can transcend...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
5. History as Art, Art as History

   Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education

   By Dipti Desai, Jessica Hamlin, Rachel Mattson

   Series: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

   History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with...

   Published October 4th 2009 by Routledge
6. Making Sense of Children's Drawings

   By John Willats

   The message of this book is a simple one: children learn to draw by acquiring increasingly complex and effective drawing rules. In this regard, learning to draw is like learning a language, and as with language children use these rules creatively, making infinite use of finite means. Learning to...

   Published May 25th 2005 by Psychology Press
7. Issues in Art and Design Teaching

   Edited by Nicholas Addison, Lesley Burgess

   Series: Issues in Teaching Series

   Issues in Art and Design Teaching draws together a range of pedagogical and ethical issues for trainee and newly qualified teachers of art and design, and their mentors in art and design education. Arguing for a critical approach to the art and design curriculum, the collection encourages students...

   Published March 12th 2003 by Routledge
8. Issues in Teaching Using ICT

   By Marilyn Leask

   Series: Issues in Teaching Series

   Written for student teachers learning to teach in primary and secondary schools and newly qualified teachers, this book has been designed to engage with a wide range of issues related to ICT teaching. It presents key debates that teachers will need to understand, reflect on and engage in as part of...

   Published March 21st 2001 by Routledge