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Valuing the arts on their own terms? (Ceci n'est pas une pipe).

Arts Education Policy Review,  January, 2007  by Gee, Constance Bumgarner

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Abstract: Profound differences exist between the ways in which arts educators and artists personally value the arts and the rationales offered via arts advocacy campaigns for public arts support. The author argues that those discrepancies carry grave consequences for K-university arts education.

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The author describes means by which to better reconcile valuing the arts for their intrinsic qualities with intense political pressure to justify arts education in terms of its alleged ability to improve students' math and reading skills and to address concerns of social justice and ...

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