Why Our Schools Need the Arts

Informationen zum Autor Jessica Hoffmann Davis is a cognitive developmental psychologist and founder of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day Klappentext Presents the way to a different kind of advocacy: one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subject, teach our kids. This book offers a set of principles and tools that aim to secure a strong place for the arts in education. Zusammenfassung Presents the way to a different kind of advocacy: one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects! and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts! like no other subject! teach our kids. This book offers a set of principles and tools that aim to secure a strong place for the arts in education.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Hoffmann Davis
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780807748343
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4834-3
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries