Assessing aesthetic education: measuring the ability to "Ward off Chaos."

The following article was written in response to Ongoing Inquiry, a two-day conference in March 1996 designed to present the results and research methods of a five-year study of aesthetic education at the Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) and four affiliate institutes across the country. The research project, funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, began in 1991 after LCI's fifteenth year of work with schools.

The project asked: What is the impact of LCI's aesthetic education--on teachers, students, and schools--and how can it be improved? The "Project for Evaluation and ...

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