Arts and Learning: An Integrated Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings

By Merryl Goldberg

Book Overview

This innovative book focuses on learning through as well as learning about the arts. It explores numerous ways in which the arts-visual, literary, and performing-can be integrated across the K-8 curriculum via national and state standards in arts education. The third edition of Integrating the Arts: An Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Setting reflects contemporary theory and practice and promotes ideas and skills that tap children's propensity for creativity and critical thinking. Merryl Goldberg provides numerous strategies and examples of learning through classroom activities such as music, dance, and poetry. The third edition includes special attention to inclusive education, with specific references throughout the text to children with special needs and gifted and talented education, as well as additional and updated information on using the arts to teach English Language Learners. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801316073
• ISBN13: 9780801316074
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Longman Pub Group
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 6.5" x 0.5"

Customer Reviews

I recommend this for all educators

I bought Merryl Goldberg's "Integrating the Arts" because I wanted to write a story in blog form, about how arts can improve education, and I was not disappointed. Far from it. It confirmed my own experience that arts are a valuable asset in education. If I had to choose a sentence from the book to define one of the main goals of integrating the arts, it would be from page 34, "What interests me in comparing these three definitions of intellectual development (Duckworth, Gardner, Piaget) and Vygotsky's definition of art is that each thinker emphasizes intelligence as an activity, a creative affair, or an evolving process." The book shows how it is possible to apply the arts in History, Social Studies, Geography, Science, Math using drama, dance, music, poetry, visual arts, photography, puppetry, quilts. It has more than 20 possible lesson plans, but there are plenty of suggestions in the book that can be applied with a little imagination and initiative, in three different ways (please read editorial note). The ancient Greeks defended that all children should learn music and sports to provide a good balance between aggressiveness and sensibility. You can deduct from the book that, Merryl Goldberg decided to turn her energies toward education and investigate the role of the arts in teaching and learning, because having grown up in an artistic environment, and being herself an accomplished musician, she is well aware of all the benefits of art. I recommend this book to all educators. Maria d'Oliveira - musesblues.blogspot.com

Fantastic Book and a fantastic lady!

Merryl Goldberg is my professor in the Teacher Credential program at CSU San Marcos in California. She has a lot of good ideas for teachers to integrate the arts into standard school curriculum. This is a great book for anyone in the business of education to read.