Culture and the Arts in Education: Critical Essays on Shaping Human Experience

By Ralph Alexander Smith

Book Overview

This collection of Ralph Smith's writings provides a comprehensive overview of his extraordinary contributions to understanding the importance of aesthetics in education. These essays record his lifelong efforts to construct a defensible rationale for the arts in general education and a workable curriculum for art education in our public schools (K-16). The topics covered range from liberal education to arts education, the relationship of art, aesthetics, and aesthetic education to teaching and curriculum, the arts and the humanities, and cultural diversity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807746541
• ISBN13: 9780807746547
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"