Focusing on learning through rather than about the arts, this text explores numerous ways in which the arts - visual, literary, and performing - can be integrated across the curriculum. It reflects contemporary theory and practice and promotes ideas and skills that tap children's propensity for creativity and critical thinking.

This innovative title focuses on learning through rather than about the arts. It explores numerous ways in which the arts-visual, literary, and performing-can be integrated across the curriculum. Arts and Learning, 2/e reflects contemporary theory and practice and promotes ideas and skills that tap children's propensity for creativity and critical thinking. This text provides numerous strategies and examples of learning through classroom activities such as children's music, dance, and poetry.

1. Art as Knowing: A Methodology for Learning.

2. What Does It Mean to Be a Learner? Intellectual Development Revisited.

3. Piaget, Imitation, and the Blues: Reflections on Imagination and Creativity.

4. Communication, Expression, and Experience: Literacy and the Arts.

5. The Voices of Humanity: History, Social Studies, Geography, and the Arts.

6. The Wonder of Discovery: Science and the Arts.

7. Puzzles of the Mind and Soul: Mathematics and the Arts.

8. Setting the Stage for a Turn of Events: Subject Matter Informs the Arts.

9. Seeing a Different Picture: Assessment and the Arts.

10. A Lithograph in the Closet and an Accordion in the Garage: Connecting with the Arts and Artists in Your Community.

11. Beyond Walls: Mural Making and Critical Voices: Collaborative Art Projects.