- Author
- Smith, Ralph A.
- Publisher
- Teachers College Press, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 807746541
- Table of Contents
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ch. 1 Arts education as liberal education
ch. 2 Philosophy and theory of aesthetic education
ch. 3 Art, the human career, and aesthetic education
ch. 4 Problems for a philosophy of art education
ch. 5 Concepts, concept learning, and art education
ch. 6 The artworld and aesthetic skills : a context for research and development
ch. 7 Teaching aesthetic criticism in the schools
ch. 8 An excellence curriculum for art education
ch. 9 Aesthetic education : a critical necessity
ch. 10 Toward percipience : a humanities curriculum for arts education
ch. 11 Teaching music as one of the humanities
ch. 12 Remoralization and aesthetic education
ch. 13 The uses of cultural diversity
This collection of Ralph Smith’s writings provides a comprehensive overview of his extraordinary contributions to understanding the importance of aesthetics in education. These essays record his lifelong efforts to construct a defensible rationale for the arts in general education and a workable curriculum for art education in our public schools (K–16). The topics covered range from liberal education to arts education, the relationship of art, aesthetics, and aesthetic education to teaching and curriculum, the arts and the humanities, and cultural diversity. (From the Publisher)