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Putting the arts in the picture : reframing education in the 21st century / edited by Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, c2004.Description: 165 p. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0929911113
  • 9780929911113
Other title:
  • Reframing education in the 21st century
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N87 .P88 2004
Contents:
Learning and the arts / Nick Rabkin -- You can't get much better than that / Dan Weissman -- No one learns alone / Madeleine Grumet -- A short look at a long past / Michael Wakeford -- Making a way : youth arts and learning in international perspective / Shirley Brice Heath and Sir Ken Robinson -- Putting the arts in the picture : reframing education in the 21st century / Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond.
Summary: Across the country, schools that integrate the arts into the fabric of the school day and across the curriculum defy educational odds and expectations. These schools demonstrate that the arts are profoundly cognitive and engaging and that arts integration is a strategy within the reach of schools even in the poorest communities. This book makes a powerful and original argument for placing the arts at the center of educational renewal. The authors investigate the success of arts integrated schools and the programs that have supported them, and explain why arts integration has such cognitive power. This book places arts integration within the long arc of efforts to realize the democratic promise of public education and examines how other nations have mobilized the arts to focus young people's need to learn and grow. Throughout, the authors suggest practical strategies- for educators, policymakers, school reformers, philanthropists, and parents- that can make arts integration broadly available to the children who need it most.
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Learning and the arts / Nick Rabkin -- You can't get much better than that / Dan Weissman -- No one learns alone / Madeleine Grumet -- A short look at a long past / Michael Wakeford -- Making a way : youth arts and learning in international perspective / Shirley Brice Heath and Sir Ken Robinson -- Putting the arts in the picture : reframing education in the 21st century / Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond.

Across the country, schools that integrate the arts into the fabric of the school day and across the curriculum defy educational odds and expectations. These schools demonstrate that the arts are profoundly cognitive and engaging and that arts integration is a strategy within the reach of schools even in the poorest communities. This book makes a powerful and original argument for placing the arts at the center of educational renewal. The authors investigate the success of arts integrated schools and the programs that have supported them, and explain why arts integration has such cognitive power. This book places arts integration within the long arc of efforts to realize the democratic promise of public education and examines how other nations have mobilized the arts to focus young people's need to learn and grow. Throughout, the authors suggest practical strategies- for educators, policymakers, school reformers, philanthropists, and parents- that can make arts integration broadly available to the children who need it most.