
Why Our Schools Need the Arts
Jessica Hoffmann Davis(Author)
Teachers' College Press
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-8077-4834-3 (ISBN)
Description
This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy - one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subject, teach our kids. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of arts education, offers a set of principles and tools that will be invaluable to advocates already working hard to make the case and secure a strong place for the arts in education. She also reaches out to those who care deeply about education but have yet to consider what the arts uniquely provide. This book is for anyone willing to brave a new terrain in which the arts are finally embraced without apology!
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 227 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-4834-3 (9780807748343)
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Person
Jessica Hoffmann Davis is a cognitive developmental psychologist and founder of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day