Second Edition
Edited by: David M. Donahue, Jennifer B. Stuart
Foreword by: Louise Music
Afterword by: Lois Hetland
Publication Date: March 22, 2024
Pages: 208
Both a practitioner’s guide and a school reform model, the new edition of this popular book shares exemplary arts-integration practices across the K–8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, each chapter carefully describes how the arts offer an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn to assist teachers in developing their own philosophy and practice. This updated second edition features scholarship and art at the forefront of contemporary practice and addresses social justice issues such as racial, climate, and economic justice. Chapter authors provide concrete ideas along with lively examples of public school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter that includes English, social studies, science, and mathematics. The book’s narrative approach makes arts integration accessible and understandable to novice and experts alike. Readers of this new edition will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts every day, in every school, to reach every child.
Book Features:
David M. Donahue is a professor of education at the University of San Francisco. Jennifer B. Stuart is an artist and educator who has worked for over 30 years developing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary curriculum.
Praise for the First Edition:
“Provides a thorough guide to integrating art into other disciplinary subjects...recommended.”
—SchoolArts
“Recommended.”
—Choice
“It is a privilege to reread these chapters and to look back on their wisdom from the vantage point of our present time. More than a decade later, there is still so much relevance and wisdom in the chapters of Artful Teaching. This book is a resource for teachers in the field today and those who are preparing to enter the field. It is the spirit of this publication, a spirit that urges us to share practice and connect with each other, that is the real hope for all of us.”
—From the Foreword by Louise Music, arts educator
“Artful Teaching’s second edition updates a friendly cyclone that swept many educators from the dreary slog of ‘doing school’ into the generative and rigorous act of artistic research. Current, pertinent examples and sage advice from an array of arts-integration protagonists scaffold learning experiences that are deep, contextual, connected, and optimistic. This pedagogy will cultivate imagination and hope in students and equip them to find and solve complex problems in their ever-challenging worlds.”
—Anne Thulson, art education professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver
“The second edition of Artful Teaching comes at just the right time. Although so much has occurred in the world since the first edition, the articles remain vital and useful to our work as arts educators. In many ways and given the situation today, they are even more important. Rereading these, I am reminded how germane this research is and how necessary it is for new teachers. I kept thinking as I read, ‘Whoa, this is great, how did I forget about it? I need to use it in class with preservice teaching students.’ I am pleased that Artful Teaching is coming out in a second edition so that a new generation can have it as a resource.”
—Eric Engdahl, professor and chair, Department of Teacher Education, Cal State East Bay
Contents
Foreword to the Second Edition Louise Music v
Introduction: Questions to Ask Yourself About Arts Integration: What to Ask Before You Start David M. Donahue and Jennifer B. Stuart (with Todd Elkin and Arzu Mistry) 1
PART I: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ARTS AND INTEGRATION
1. What Is Art? 23
Laurie Polster
2. How Does Art Connect to Social Justice? 36
David M. Donahue, Jennifer B. Stuart, Todd Elkin, and Arzu Mistry
PART II: ART FOR EVERY CHILD
3. Creating Alliances for Arts Learning and Arts Integration 55
Louise Music
4. Seeing Is Believing: Making Our Learning Through the Arts Visible 68
Violet Harlo
PART III: ART IN EVERY SCHOOL
5. Leadership for and in the Arts 83
Lynda Tredway and Rebecca Wheat
6. Arts Integration: One School, One Step at a Time 91
Debra Koppman
7. Musical People, a Musical School 102
Sarah Willner
PART IV: ART EVERY DAY
8. Visual Prompts in Writing Instruction: Working with Multilingual Middle Schoolers 119
Dafney Blanca Dabach
9. Creativity as Classroom Management: Using Drama and Hip-Hop 128
Evan Hastings
10. Keeping Reading and Writing Personal and Powerful: Bringing Poetry and Bookmaking Together 139
Cathleen Micheaels
11. Learning and Teaching Dance in the Elementary Classroom 157
Patty Yancey
12. Teaching Artists—A Vital Link Toward a Thriving Ecosystem 166
Ann Wettrich
Afterword Lois Hetland 177
About the Editors and Contributors 187
Index 191
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