Missing links: on studying the connection of arts education to the public good. (Symposium: Critical Links: what's missing?).

When art is thought of as being in the service of the state, the question of integrating aesthetic and utilitarian values automatically arises. Although its compilers surely did not intend any such lesson, Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development instructs us in the hazards of avoiding, rather than engaging with, that question.

Critical Links is a federally funded project that identifies and presents recent arts education research focusing on the academic and social effects of arts learning. As reported in the introduction, the project's ...

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