Reflections from the Heart of Educational Inquiry
Understanding Curriculum and Teaching through the Arts
Published on 19. February 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-7914-0557-4 (ISBN)
Description
This unique book discusses and illustrates the ways the arts have influenced curriculum inquiry and the teaching and learning process. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, ontological, and political explanations of the influence of the arts on curricula. The second part offers personal accounts by well-known scholars who have been influenced by works of art and who have translated those influences into their classroom curricula and teaching.
Reviews / Votes
"A fascinating book not only for curricularists but also for "liberal artists," i.e., those teaching in the humanities. It celebrates a connectedness rarely seen between theory and practice." - Mary A. Doll, Holy Cross College, New Orleans"This book demonstrates the great diversity of human experience and that within this diversity there is a clear, common orientation-education is not separate from life, and life is influenced by the arts." - Bernice J. Wolfson, University of Alabama, Birmingham
"The book is highly evocative. In reading it, I was led to track down a reproduction of Jackson Pollack's The White Cockatoo, a copy of Wallace Stevens' The Man with the Blue Guitar, a videotape of the Bolshoi Ballet dancing Spartacus, and even a compact disc of Mozart's The Magic Flute from the local public library. In short, the essays are powerful. They whet the appetite and spur the reader to inquiries of her own." - Geneva D. Haertel, Independent Educational Consultant, Palo Alto, CA
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 0
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-0557-4 (9780791405574)
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Persons
George Willis is Professor of Education at the University of Rhode Island. William H. Schubert is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Content
Preface PROLOGUE: Reflections on the Origins of this Book
George Willis and William H. Schubert
I. PERSPECTIVES: Reflections on the Arts and Educational Inquiry
1. What the Arts Taught Me about Education
Elliot W. Eisner
2. The Arts and an Artistic Curriculum
Louis Rubin
3. The Role of Art Education in the Public School
Harry S. Broudy
4. Curriculum and the Art of Daily Life
Madeleine R. Grumet
5. The First Glamourizer of Thought: Theoretical and Autobiographical Ruminations on Drama and Education
Robert Donmoyer
6. Blue Guitars and the Search for Curriculum
Maxine Greene
II. ILLUSTRATIONS: Reflections on the Arts by Educational Inquirers
7. The Arts and Transcendence: An Autobiographical Note
Arthur W. Foshay
8. Native Experience: An Inspiration for Curriculum Leadership
James Henderson
9. The Arts and Curriculum as Lingering
Wanda T. May
10. Wondrous Possibilities: On the Value of an Artful Setting in Childhood
Ann Lynn Lopez-Schubert
11. Curriculum and The Magic Flute
Gail McCutcheon
12. "Deliver Me from the Days of Old": Rock and Roll (Etc.) as Liberation
Kenneth Kantor
13. On Thinking as a Sacred Act, Coltrane Jazz, the Inaccessible, and Curriculum
Jose R. Rosario
14. Sonare and Videre: Questioning the Primacy of the Eye in Curriculum Talk
Ted T. Aoki
15. Dance as Curriculum, Curriculum as Dance
Susan W. Stinson
16. The Arts and Education: Personal Agency and Social Possibility
Landon E. Beyer
17. Camera Obscura: An Encounter with War at the Movies and a Personal Journey through the Flickering White Light
William Ayers
18. "Hey Man, I'm Good": The Aesthetics and Ethics of Making Films in Schools
Michael W. Apple
19. Blocks and Film and Other Media: The Aesthetics of Inquiry and Understanding from the Inside Out
Francine Shuchat Shaw
20. Mondrian as Metaphor: Mondrian, Museums, and Curriculum Work
Elizabeth Vallance
21. Reflections of Picasso's Guernica
Janet L. Miller
22. The White Cockatoo: Images of Abstract Expressionism in Curriculum Theory
William F. Pinar
23. A Poetry of Curriculum Inquiry
Nelson L. Haggerson
24. Poetry and Curriculum Inquiry
Delese Wear
25. In the Spotlight of Life: Dramatic Expression as Emancipatory Pedagogy
Richard Butt
26. The Drama of the Classroom: Dramaturgy as Curriculum Inquiry
Noreen B. Garman
27. Curriculum Inspired by Scrooge or "A Curriculum Carol"
William H. Schubert
28. A Childhood Reading
Max van Manen
29. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Reflections on the Aesthetics and Politics of Children's Literature
Joel Taxel
30. An Accidental Astronaut: Learning with Science Fiction
Noel Gough
31. The Significance of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest for Curriculum Workers
Alex Molnar
32. A Personal Inquiry into the Curriculum of Melville's Moby Dick
George Willis
33. Ambiguity and the Curriculum: Lessons from the Literary Non-Fiction of Norman Mailer
Thomas E. Barone
EPILOGUE
References
Contributors
Index: Names
Index: Works of Art
George Willis and William H. Schubert
I. PERSPECTIVES: Reflections on the Arts and Educational Inquiry
1. What the Arts Taught Me about Education
Elliot W. Eisner
2. The Arts and an Artistic Curriculum
Louis Rubin
3. The Role of Art Education in the Public School
Harry S. Broudy
4. Curriculum and the Art of Daily Life
Madeleine R. Grumet
5. The First Glamourizer of Thought: Theoretical and Autobiographical Ruminations on Drama and Education
Robert Donmoyer
6. Blue Guitars and the Search for Curriculum
Maxine Greene
II. ILLUSTRATIONS: Reflections on the Arts by Educational Inquirers
7. The Arts and Transcendence: An Autobiographical Note
Arthur W. Foshay
8. Native Experience: An Inspiration for Curriculum Leadership
James Henderson
9. The Arts and Curriculum as Lingering
Wanda T. May
10. Wondrous Possibilities: On the Value of an Artful Setting in Childhood
Ann Lynn Lopez-Schubert
11. Curriculum and The Magic Flute
Gail McCutcheon
12. "Deliver Me from the Days of Old": Rock and Roll (Etc.) as Liberation
Kenneth Kantor
13. On Thinking as a Sacred Act, Coltrane Jazz, the Inaccessible, and Curriculum
Jose R. Rosario
14. Sonare and Videre: Questioning the Primacy of the Eye in Curriculum Talk
Ted T. Aoki
15. Dance as Curriculum, Curriculum as Dance
Susan W. Stinson
16. The Arts and Education: Personal Agency and Social Possibility
Landon E. Beyer
17. Camera Obscura: An Encounter with War at the Movies and a Personal Journey through the Flickering White Light
William Ayers
18. "Hey Man, I'm Good": The Aesthetics and Ethics of Making Films in Schools
Michael W. Apple
19. Blocks and Film and Other Media: The Aesthetics of Inquiry and Understanding from the Inside Out
Francine Shuchat Shaw
20. Mondrian as Metaphor: Mondrian, Museums, and Curriculum Work
Elizabeth Vallance
21. Reflections of Picasso's Guernica
Janet L. Miller
22. The White Cockatoo: Images of Abstract Expressionism in Curriculum Theory
William F. Pinar
23. A Poetry of Curriculum Inquiry
Nelson L. Haggerson
24. Poetry and Curriculum Inquiry
Delese Wear
25. In the Spotlight of Life: Dramatic Expression as Emancipatory Pedagogy
Richard Butt
26. The Drama of the Classroom: Dramaturgy as Curriculum Inquiry
Noreen B. Garman
27. Curriculum Inspired by Scrooge or "A Curriculum Carol"
William H. Schubert
28. A Childhood Reading
Max van Manen
29. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Reflections on the Aesthetics and Politics of Children's Literature
Joel Taxel
30. An Accidental Astronaut: Learning with Science Fiction
Noel Gough
31. The Significance of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest for Curriculum Workers
Alex Molnar
32. A Personal Inquiry into the Curriculum of Melville's Moby Dick
George Willis
33. Ambiguity and the Curriculum: Lessons from the Literary Non-Fiction of Norman Mailer
Thomas E. Barone
EPILOGUE
References
Contributors
Index: Names
Index: Works of Art