Cultural Literacy Arts Education

Author : Ralph Alexander Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Arts
ISBN : 0252062159

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Cultural Literacy & Arts Education by Ralph Alexander Smith Pdf

Thirteen experts in the visual arts, literature, music, dance, and theater responded to the arguments of E. D. Hirsch's "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know", focusing particularily on his alarm at the serious slippage that has occurred in the background knowledge and information prerequisite for effective communication. These authorities addressed two questions: (1) What it means for people to be "literate" (that is, able to understand communications and have relevant experiences) in various art forms? (2) What sorts of context should such individuals bring to their encounters with works in these art forms and what would that imply for arts education? The contributing specialists are E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Harry S. Broudy, Jerrold Levinson, Patti P. Gillespie, Walter H. Clark, Jr., John Adkins Richardson, Francis Sparshott, Clifton Olds, Marcia Muelder Eaton, Ronald Berman, Lucian Krukowski, Michael J. Parsons, and David J. Elliot. (KM)

Author : Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783030892364

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Learning Cultural Literacy Through Creative Practices in Schools by Tuuli Lähdesmäki Pdf

This open access book discusses how cultural literacy can be taught and learned through creative practices. It approaches cultural literacy as a dialogic social process based on learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic, tolerant, and inclusive interaction. The book focuses on meaning-making in children and young people's visual and multimodal artefacts created by students aged 5-15 as an outcome of the Cultural Literacy Learning Programme implemented in schools in Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, and the UK. The lessons in the program address different social and cultural themes, ranging from one's cultural attachments to being part of a community and engaging more broadly in society. The artefacts are explored through data-driven content analysis and self-reflexive and collaborative interpretation and discussed through multimodality and a sociocultural approach to children's visual expression. This interdisciplinary volume draws on cultural studies, communication studies, art education, and educational sciences. Tuuli Lähdesmäki is an associate professor at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Jūratė Baranova was a professor at the Department of Continental Philosophy and Religious Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Susanne C. Ylönen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Aino-Kaisa Koistinen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Katja Mäkinen is a senior researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Vaiva Juškiene is a junior researcher at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Irena Zaleskienė is a senior researcher at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Author : Ralph Alexander Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009761227

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General Knowledge and Arts Education by Ralph Alexander Smith Pdf

This volume explores the antecedents of E.D. Hirsch's concerns and discusses his ideas and their significance for an arts education curriculum.

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393247695

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In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria Pdf

CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education—how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning—precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.

Author : E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780394758435

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Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. Pdf

A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.

Author : Gabriel García Ochoa,Sarah McDonald
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030599041

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Cultural Literacy and Empathy in Education Practice by Gabriel García Ochoa,Sarah McDonald Pdf

This book explores a new approach to cultural literacy. Taking a pedagogical perspective, it looks at the skills, knowledge, and abilities involved in understanding and interpreting cultural differences, and proposes new ways of approaching such differences as sources of richness in intercultural and interdisciplinary collaborations. Cultural Literacy and Empathy in Education Practice balances theory with practice, providing practical examples for educators who wish to incorporate cultural literacy into their teaching. The book includes case studies, interviews with teachers and students, and examples of exercises and assessments, all backed by years of robust scholarly research.

Author : Carol D. Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015068818684

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Culture, Literacy, and Learning by Carol D. Lee Pdf

How can educators improve the literacy skills of students in historically underachieving urban high schools? In this timely book, the author offers a theoretical framework for the design of instruction that is both culturally responsive and subject-matter specific, rooted in examples of the implementation of the Cultural Modeling Project. Presented here, the Cultural Modeling Project draws on competencies students already have in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) discourse and hip-hop culture to tackle complex problems in the study of literature. Using vivid descriptions from real classrooms, the author describes how AAVE supported student learning and reasoning; how students in turn responded to the reform initiative; and how teachers adapted the cultural framework to the English/language arts curriculum. While the focus is on literacy and African American students, the book examines the functions of culture in facilitating learning and offers principles for leveraging cultural knowledge in support of subject matter specific to academic learning. This much-awaited book offers important lessons for researchers, school district leaders, and local practitioners regarding the complex ways that cultural knowledge is constructed and plays out in classroom life, in the life of a school, and in the life of a whole-school reform initiative.

Author : Amy Petersen Jensen,Roni Jo Draper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317614845

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Arts Education and Literacies by Amy Petersen Jensen,Roni Jo Draper Pdf

In a struggling global economy, education is focused on core subjects such as language arts and mathematics, and the development of technological and career-readiness skills. Arts education has not been a central focus of education reform movements in the United States, and none of the current education standards frameworks deeply address the processes, texts and literacies that are inherent to arts disciplines. This lack of clarity poses a problem for state and district leaders who might be inclined to advocate for the arts in schools and classrooms across the country, but cannot find adequate detail in their guiding frameworks. This volume acknowledges the challenges that arts educators face, and posits that authentic arts instruction and learning can benefit a young person’s development both inside and outside of the classroom. It presents ways that arts teachers and literacy specialists can work together to help others understand the potential that arts learning has to enhance students 21st century learning skills.

Author : Naomi Segal,Daniela Koleva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137429704

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From Literature to Cultural Literacy by Naomi Segal,Daniela Koleva Pdf

Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.

Author : Erica Rosenfeld Halverson
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807765722

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How the Arts Can Save Education by Erica Rosenfeld Halverson Pdf

"A comprehensive look at how the arts (broadly conceived) can improve teaching, learning, and curriculum for all students, written in accessible language for non-academics and non-experts. It contains many evocative examples to illustrate the power of the arts to change education"--

Author : Rachel Mason, Doug Boughton
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3830957831

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Beyond Multicultural Art Education by Rachel Mason, Doug Boughton Pdf

Multiculturalism is a term that has been much used in educational texts in recent years. Its usage is frequently taken for granted in the rhetoric of curriculum literature. However, it has recently become clear that there are significant variations of interpretations of multiculturalism in different world regions. This book takes a new and deeper look at the notion of multiculturalism through the lens of art education. In educational terms art is a unique tool for the investigation of cultural values because it transcends the barrier of language and provides visceral and tacit insights into cultural change. In order to address the educational interpretations and methods of implementing multiculturalism in different regios of the world, this book contains discussion and analysis of perspectives on art education theory and practice from thirteen countries. The authors of each chapter are respected multicultural experts in their geographic locations who are well equipped to provide unique insights into the particular issues of multiculturalism viewed from the perspective of art in educational contexts. The book as a whole provides tools for the conceptual analysis of contemporary notions linked with multiculturalism, such as interculturalism, internationalism and globalisation. It also provides strategies for art teaching in relation to these ideas. While the term 'multicultural education' is problematic, this book presents conceptual frameworks that should assist educators to examine their own teaching on issues of equity and diversity that are central to the multicultural education debate. ©́

Author : Kenneth J. Rehage,National Society for the Study of Education
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226601471

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Cultural Literacy and the Idea of General Education by Kenneth J. Rehage,National Society for the Study of Education Pdf

The Eighty-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II

Author : Tammy L. Buehler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : OCLC:25856397

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Cultural Literacy in the Visual Arts as it Relates to History Achievement of Eleventh Grade Students by Tammy L. Buehler Pdf

Author : F. Graeme Chalmers
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892363933

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Celebrating Pluralism by F. Graeme Chalmers Pdf

“Educational trends will change and research agendas will shift, but art teachers in public institutions will still need to educate all students for multicultural purposes,” argues Chalmers in this fifth volume in the Occasional Papers series. Chalmers describes how art education programs promote cross-cultural understanding, recognize racial and cultural diversity, enhance self-esteem in students’ cultural heritage, and address issues of ethnocentrism, stereotyping, discrimination, and racism. After providing the context for multicultural art education, Chalmers examines the implications for art education of the broad themes found in art across cultures. Using discipline-based art education as a framework, he suggests ways to design and implement a curriculum for multicultural art education that will help students find a place for art in their lives. Art educators will find Celebrating Pluralism invaluable in negotiating the approach to multicultural art education that makes the most sense to their students and their communities.

Author : Stephanie Autumn Baer,Katherine Coy Smith,Stephanie Harvey Danker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040003299

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Autobiographical Lectures of Leaders in Art Education, 2001–2021 by Stephanie Autumn Baer,Katherine Coy Smith,Stephanie Harvey Danker Pdf

This scholarly collection is a continuation of a lecture series highlighting the essential nature of biography in the history of art education. The editors feature 16 prominent art educators, organized into one of three chronological sections spanning the past two decades. The contributing art educators explore influences that shaped their beliefs about art education and the arts, describe their career paths, explain their philosophy of art education and its development, and advise, predict, or speculate about the future. Every chapter concludes with essential questions and instructional resources to guide readers in their reflection. In reading these lectures, art education faculty, students, and any adjacent professional to the arts and art history can learn the importance of biographical and autobiographical study to research. Beyond research, readers can use the lectures to consider and question teaching and mentoring relationships, the power of influence, and what qualities may contribute to the recognition of exemplary success for art educators.