Art education in a world of cross-purposes.(adapted from the Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education)

This article is adapted from the Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education. Elliot Eisner and Michael Day (eds.) [c] 2004 by Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Mahwah, NJ, and the National Art Education Association. Reprinted by permission.

Art Education and Questions of Policy

To study art education is to discover and engage a field rich with achievement and promise. On one hand, this comes as no surprise because art education encompasses and embraces great artistic and intellectual traditions of work in and about visual form, each of which with its own habits of ...