Cognitive transfer and art education: a critique. (Symposium: Critical links: what's missing?).

During the past two decades or so discussion of the relationship between learning in the arts and the transfer of learning to other academic subjects has been lengthy and at times heated. Debates among researchers and scholars about the relative merits of studying art reinforce enduring questions that John Dewey and others have posed for some time: What is the appropriate role for arts education in schooling? Should art education be pursued primarily on intrinsic, aesthetic, instrumental, or expressive grounds? Even assuming that arts education appears to promote transfer of ...