Education in the Arts (3rd Edition)

Part of the series Oxford University Press - Teacher Education.

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Teach with confidence across all 5 art streams!

This book combines a number of important purposes. It aims to privide students with: 

• An understanding of the place of the arts in society and in schools; 
• An introduction to the basic principles of each art form and how to teach it; 
• Vivid pictures of how the arts actually work in real classroom situations, through case study examples; 
• Suggestions for how to build and adapt on the case study examples in your own primary classrooms;
• The confidence to bring the arts into the classroom.

Grounded in theory and research, with links to teaching practice, Education in the Arts helps students apply what they are learning to new contexts, and encourages them to become reflective and mindful practitioners. Students can continue to use this book as they become practising teachers, drawing on how to implement the various arts practices in a school setting.

New to this Edition:

New Part Four – Arts and Community which includes new chapters:

• Chapter 16 - What can mindful educators learn from artists who work with children?
• Chapter 17 - The Arts and Teaching for Diversity.

New cases studies across the book, with accompanying ‘beyond the case study’ section:

• Each chapter now includes one extended case study allowing for greater depth of description and analysis of the practice under review;
• 'Beyond the case study’ draws out the strategies and approaches embedded in each case study and invites students and educators to explore how these can be applied in their own teaching contexts.

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Contents:

Part One: Key Principles

• Teaching with Art in Mind - John O’Toole, Mary Ann Hunter, Chris Sinclair and Neryl Jeanneret
• The Arts, Creativity and Play - John O’Toole
• Learning in the Arts - Neryl Jeanneret
• Arts Education as Intercultural and Social Dialogue - Kate Donelan
• General Capabilities and Multiple Literacies - John O’Toole
• Teaching for the Aesthetic, Teaching as Aesthetic - Christine Sinclair Shower
• Singing and Other Essentials - Julia Reid

Part Two: Teaching the Artforms

• Dance: Art Embodied - Jan Deans, Jeff Meiners, Sarah Young and Katrina Rank
• Drama: Social Dreaming in the 21st Century - Jane Bird, Kate Donelan and Christine Sinclair
• Media Arts - Michael Dezuanni
• Music in the Primary Classroom - Neryl Jeanneret, Jennifer Stevens-Ballenger, Sue Arney
• Learning in and through the Visual Arts - Robert Brown, Marnee Watkins and Gina Grant

Part three: Integrating and Applying The Arts

• Learning and Teaching through the Arts - Pam Macintyre, Richard Sallis, Robert Brown and Paul Molyneux
• Integrating the Arts - David Kelman, Marnee Watkins, Jennifer Stevens-Ballenger and Christine Sinclair

Part Four: Arts and Community

• Support and Partnerships for the Teacher - Neryl Jeanneret, John O’Toole and Chris Sinclair
• What Can Mindful Educators Learn from Artists who Work with Children? - Mary Ann Hunter and Robert Brown
• The Arts and Teaching for Diversity - Jo Raphael and Mary Ann Hunter