From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking

Acknolwedgments
Introduction
The Purpose of this Book
What This Book Can Do for You
How This Book Is Conceptualized
How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1: Why the Arts Matter in School
The Argument
What exactly is PBL?
The Aqua-Ponics Project
A Modest Proposal
The Advantages of an Education in the Arts
The Arts in Decline
Creating Art vs. Thinking Art
Art Embraces Accident
Critical Design
What is the Value of Student Work?
Use the Arts as a Fundamental Approach

Chapter 2: How to Set the Stage
How Does One Create the Environment for Learning?
So You Want to Be an Artist
Starting with What You Already Know
Learning Abhors a Vacuum
Demonstrating What You Know
Gauging How Far You've Come

Chapter 3: Building a Culture of Learning and Exploration
Infinite Questions
Learning to Take Risks
Learning to See, Learning to Think, Learning to Ask
Learning to Investigate
An Interlude for Feedback Feedback

Chapter 4: Deconstruction
The Importance of the Entry Event
The Event Itself
Unmaking
Unmaking and Remaking

Chapter 5: Deconstruction of Self
Deconstruction is a Path to Self-knowledge
What is the Danger of Teleological Thinking?
The Marriage of the Arts and Sciences
What is Improvisational Thinking?
What Does All This Mean for a High School Teacher?

Chapter 6: Making
The Satisfaction of Making Things by Hand
Design Thinking
The Importance of Having a Guide
The Apprentice and the Mentor
Mentorship for the Project-Based Classroom
Back to the UnHappy Meal: Organization, Production, and Reconstruction

Chapter 7: Bridging Body, Mind and Soul
A Model for Arts-Based Research
First Attempts with Art
Making Art with Meaning
Developing a Personal Vision for Success

Chapter 8: The Exhibit
Curating is Creating
Art and Social Practice
Putting It All Together
The Importance of Showing Work

Chapter 9: Measuring Success
Assessing Progressive Education
Assessing the UnHappy Meal as an Education
Assessing the UnHappy Meal as Art
How About the Audience?
The Aftermath

About the Author