How the Arts Can Save Education - Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Instruction

"A comprehensive look at how the arts (broadly conceived) can improve teaching, learning, and curriculum for all students, written in accessible language for non-academics and non-experts. It contains many evocative examples to illustrate the power of the arts to change education"--

About the author

Erica Rosenfeld Halverson is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2020, she received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. Visit Erica's website at ericahalverson.com.

Summary

Provides a blueprint for using the arts - performing, visual, and multimedia - to rethink what good learning, teaching, and curriculum can be. The author presents a bold plan for saving education with an arts-based approach to teaching that focuses on risk-taking as the most important aspect of a successful classroom.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques d'Amboise, Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Ellen Weinstein
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780807765739
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6573-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Technology, Education-Connections (The TEC Series); Technology, Education--Connect
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology