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title | : | Renaissance in the Classroom : Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning |
author | : | Burnaford, Gail E. |
publisher | : | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. |
isbn10 | asin | : | 0805838198 |
print isbn13 | : | 9780805838190 |
ebook isbn13 | : | 9780585384184 |
language | : | English |
subject | Arts--Study and teaching (Elementary) , Arts--Study and teaching (Middle school) |
publication date | : | 2001 |
lcc | : | NX280.R46 2001eb |
ddc | : | 700/.71/073 |
subject | : | Arts--Study and teaching (Elementary) , Arts--Study and teaching (Middle school) |
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Renaissance in the Classroom
Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning
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Renaissance in the Classroom
Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning
Edited by
Gail Burnaford
Arnold Aprill
Cynthia Weiss
and
CAPE Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
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The cover of this book shows children's self-portrait collages against a backdrop of a Renaissance map of the New World. We designed a cover image that would connect: the present with the future and the past, personal stories with social histories, and the self with the world. These are precisely the kinds of connections our students can make through the vehicle of arts integration. We thank the students of Telpochcalli School: Edith Rivera, Diego Salgado and Rodolfo Castro, and artist/educator Guillermo Delgado, for creating such beautiful work and helping us to bring these ideas to life. Photo of art work: Scott Shigley |
Copyright 2001 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Renaissance in the classroom : Arts integration and meaningful learning/
edited by Gail Burnaford, Arnold Aprill, Cynthia Weiss.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-3819-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. ArtsStudy and teaching (Elemantary) 2. ArtsStudy and teaching
(Middle school) I. Burnaford, Gail E. II. Aprill, Arnold. III. Weiss,
Cynthia.
NX280 .R46 2001
700'.71'073dc21 00-049028
CIP
Books published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates are printed on acid-free
paper, and their bindings are chosen for strength and durability.
Printed in the United States of America
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The Sculpture group of the four Mende children who survived
the horrors of the middle passage and the 1839 Revolt aboard
the slave ship "La Amistad." Cast from Chicago school children,
the sculpture piece was commissioned for the Museum's
exhibition of the Amistad in which the famous Hale Woodruff
Amistad murals of Talladega College were reproduced to scale
as backdrop to the "Mende Children" by Rene
Townsend. Rene Townsend, Sculptor. Photo courtesy of Ramon Price, curator,
DuSable Museum of African American History.
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to the loving memory of Rene Townsend, an artist and an educator who, by her life's example, constantly reminded us of our power to erase false divisionsbetween teaching and learning, between children and adults, between hearts and minds. A true artist and a true teacher, a live wire and a steady rock, she had a profound talent for sweetly challenging and warmly embracing at the same time. Everyone who knew herstudents, teachers, parents, artists, friendsfelt graced by her special attention, only to discover later that her spirit was so large that this personal, "exclusive" relationship included us all.
Not long before we lost her, the DuSable Museum of African American History honored Rene by commissioning her sculpture of the Amistad slave ship uprising. Rene chose to represent this historic struggle for freedom through an image of the children of the Amistadchildren who survived captivity and grew up to make lives of their own choosing. The sculpture was cast directly from the bodies of students at Charles S. Brownell Elementary School. Their work with Rene connected them to their own history, their own freedom, and their own potential. It is in that spirit that this book is launched.
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Contents
Foreword | xix |
Preface | xxiii |
A Hundred Voices | xxiii |
Reading This Book | xxv |
Overview of the Book | xxiv |
Acknowledgments | xxvii |
References | xxviii |
Contributors | xxxi |
Arts Integration Is | xxxiii |
Introduction
by the Editors with Charles Twichell | xxxv |
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education: History and Context for Learning About Arts Integration | xxxv |
The Arts in American Public Education: A Brief History | xxxvii |
Arts Education and the Public School Curriculum | xxxviii |
Progressive Education Theory: Arts Education as the Social, Common, and Public Aspects of Experience | xxxviii |
The Suburbanization of Arts Education: An Emphasis on Self-Expression | xxxix |
Sputnik, the Cold War, and "Back to Basics" | xl |
Renewed Interest in Arts Education as Part of the New Social Contracts of the 1960s | xl |
A National Report Relegates the Arts to Elective Status, Again | xl |
The Challenge of Moving beyond False Dichotomies | xli |
Arts Education and School Reform: Finding the Connections | xlii |
References | xxliv |
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