Product Description: First published in 1991. The arts can only thrive in a culture where there is conversation about them. This is particularly true of the arts in an education context. Yet often the discussion is poor because we do not have the necessary concepts for the elaboration of our aesthetic responses, or sufficient familiarity with the contending schools of interpretation...read more

Product Description: How can primary and secondary schools best identify and provide for pupils with talents in the creative arts and sport? This book contains a range of practical and inclusive strategies to help schools enable and encourage pupils to make the most of their talents, including: -a fresh look at definitions of talent -advice on identifying talented pupils in primary and secondary schools -information on the unique needs and characteristics of talented pupils -guidance on the role of both in-school and out-of-school provision -a whole-school audit, to assess provision in the talent area -advice on developing whole-school and departmental policies for talented pupils Aimed at gifted and talented coordinators, teachers and school managers, this book will also benefit leaders of extra-curricular activities, and parents...read more

Product Description: Written with both the cultural and moral crisis and the challenge of the future in mind, Peter Abbs's book charts an open, clear, and positive way forward for education. Divided into four sections, the first examines the true and fitting ends of education and outlines a positive conception of education as an initiation into critical enquiry and the personal art of learning...read more

The essays in this book address a range of issues of the moment and although ranging widely across the field of aesthetic education have a strong sense of identity. A commitment to the unique role of the arts in education as ways of knowing is made clear. The educational importance of direct creative and imaginative engagement with the processes of artistic forming and reception as in themselves providing necessary and sufficient justification for the arts in schools is stressed.

Product Description: This book aims to explore the role of art in education in a multicultural society by linking descriptive portrayals of art education in classroom settings to theories of personal and social education.