Böcker av Jessica Hoffmann Davis

This book champions the arts as essential to the K-12 educative process. Exploring apparently oppositional approaches to the arts and their role in education, it provides both an overview of arts learning in and out of school as well as a set of ""artful"" lenses through which to regard non-arts teaching and learning.

Presents the way to a different kind of advocacy: one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subject, teach our kids. This book offers a set of principles and tools that aim to secure a strong place for the arts in education.

Addressing the alarming drop-out rate in our high schools, this book presents a thoughtful, evidence-based argument that increasing arts education in the high school curriculum will keep kids in school. The author shares voices of teachers and learners to demonstrate how courses in the arts are valuable to students who have otherwise become disenfranchised from school.

This book illuminates the origins, purposes, and features of portraiture----a method of inquiry that shares some of the features of other qualitative research methods such as ethnography, case study, and narrative----placing it within the larger discourse on social science inquiry and mapping it onto the broader terrain of qualitative research.