Arts Education Resources
VAPAE understands the necessity of promoting the field of arts education through research and critical theory and will assign such readings to supplement our undergraduate’s educational experience. Below is a resource of articles that have been utilized in VAPAE syllabi. VAPAE does not claim ownership over these articles, and uses them for educational purposes only.
“The Art of Questioning Art” The Journal of the National Art Education Association
Anzaldua, Gloria E. “Beyond Traditional Notions of Identity” The Chronicle Review (2002)
Ault, Julie. Beck, Martin. “Drawing Out & Leading Forth” Notes for an Art School (2006): 1-8
Banks, James A. “An Introduction to Multicultural Education” Pearson Education (2008): ch. 1
Block, Peter. “COMMUNITY: The Structure of Belonging” Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2008): xi-28
Boal, Augusto. “Games for Actors and Non-Actors” Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group (1992): vii-301
Boal, Augusto. “Theater of the Oppressed” Pluto Press (1974, new edition 2000): 119-155
Chung, Sheng Kuan. “An Art of Resistance From the Street to the Classroom” (2009): 25-32
Clark, Dawn. “Classroom Management Challenges in the Dance Class” JOPERD (February 2007): 19-24
Cohen, A.P. “The Symbolic Construction Of Community” Routledge (1985): 11-21
Cohen-Cruz, Jan. “An Introduction to Community Art and Activism” Community Arts Net (2002)
Costello-Dougherty, Malaika. “Waldorf-Inspired Public Schools Are on the Rise” EDUTOPIA (2015)
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. “Creativity: Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention”
Davis, Angela Y. “Are Prisons Obsolete?” Seven Stories Press (2003)
Davis, Ben. “9.5 Theses on Art and Class” Haymarket Books (2013): 75-87
Dewey, John. “Art as Experience: The Live Creature” Berkeley Publishing Group (1934): 1-19
Dewey, John. “Democracy and Education” The Macmillan Company (1916): chapter 1
Dewey, John. “Experience & Education” Kappa Delta Pi (1938): 5-31
Dewey, John. “My Pedagogic Creed” School Journal (January 1897): 77-80
DeWitt, Peter. “That’s Not Mainstreaming!” Education Week (September 6, 2015)
Ferrance, Eileen. “Action Research” Themes in Education (2000)
Gnezda, Nicole M. “The Potential for Meaning in Student Art” Art Education (July 2009): 48-52
Helguera, Pablo. “Education for Socially Engaged Art” Jorge Pinto Books (2011): ix-90
Hoffmann Davis, Jessica. “Why Our Schools Need the Arts” Teachers College Press (2008): 1-25
Hooks, Bell. “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope” Routledge (2003): ix-12, 167-175
Illich, Ivan. “Deschooling Society” Harper and Row (1970): iv-186
Imel, Susan. “Transformative Learning in Adulthood” ERIC Digest no. 200 (1998)
Jacobs, Jane. “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” Random House Inc. (1961): 3-25
Joseph, Miranda. “Against the Romance of Community” University of Minnesota Press (2002): 7-36
Kohn, Alfie. “No Contest: The Case Against Competition" Houghton Mifflin (1992): 1-30
Linsin, Michael. “Classroom Management for Art, Music, and PE Teachers” JME Publishing (2014): 39-88
Naidus, Beverly. “Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame” New Village Press (2009): 1-37
Pickard, Eileen. “The Development of Creative Ability” NFER Publishing Company (1979): 28-34
Roberts, Teresa. “Teaching Real Art Making” Art Education (March2005): 40-45
Strachota, Bob. “How Should I Teach?: Tales From Mud Season” On Their Side (1996): 1-14