Arts with the Brain in Mind

by Eric Jensen

Book Overview

How do the arts stack up as a major discipline? What is their effect on the brain, learning, and human development? How might schools best implement and assess an arts program? Eric Jensen answers these questions and more in this book.

To push for higher standards of learning, many policymakers are eliminating arts programs. To Jensen, that's a mistake.

This book presents the definitive case, based on what we know about the brain and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871205149
• ISBN13: 9780871205148
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: ASCD
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

A terrific book for grade-school teachers, and parents

This is a wonderful book for teachers, parents, and school board members. It describes the effect of viewing and making visual arts like paintings and designs as well as sculptural arts on the minds of children. It discusses how these affect the brain and behavior of growing children. I am trying to find a grade-school teacher or superintendent to whom I can give this book.

Arts With the Brain in Mind

Jensen delivers an excellent case for increasing the arts offerings in our schools with compelling research and interesting neurological evidence. Not much is new here, if you read other books on the subject of the brain by Jensen.

Great

Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.

Art with the brain in mind book

great book for those of us wanting to urge the schools to include art teachers in their curriculum!

If Think the Arts don't matter in school? You better think again!

If you think the Arts don't matter anymore, I'm here to tell you to THINK again. As a second grade teacher I find Jensen's work a must-read for every parent and educator. The Arts really do play an important part in education; whether the Arts fall under musical, visual, or in kinesthetic. The Arts will enhances the neurobiological system (Jensen, 2001, p. 116) or the brain, increasing a healthy responsive learning environment to other disciplines/subjects that are outside of the Arts. Jenson discussed in-depth how each of the three Arts are important and why they should be part of every school's curriculum. Simply a great book!

A leading path

With a sometimes harsh style sometimes subjective, Mr. Jensen provides us with a leading path to make a coherent relation between the brain an it's development and the education in arts. Not very detailed with the ideas and paradigms but effective to motivate our curiosity in the field. With the arts education in the middle of a crucial crisis in the U.S., the "new idea" (for the positivist people) of a direct effect of the arts education in the development of high cognitive skills, provide a solid fundamental for the importance of this matter. At least, is a very serious proposal, well supported by researchers in the field.