Contents Foreword to the Second Edition Louise Music ?v Introduction: Questions to Ask Yourself About Arts Integration: What to Ask Before You Start David M. Donahue and Jennifer B. Stuart (with Todd Elkin and Arzu Mistry) ?1 PART I: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ARTS AND INTEGRATION 1. ?What Is Art? ?23 Laurie Polster 2. ?How Does Art Connect to Social Justice? ?36 David M. Donahue, Jennifer B. Stuart, Todd Elkin, and Arzu Mistry PART II: ART FOR EVERY CHILD 3. ?Creating Alliances for Arts Learning and Arts Integration ?55 Louise Music 4. ?Seeing Is Believing: Making Our Learning Through the Arts Visible ?68 Violet Harlo PART III: ART IN EVERY SCHOOL 5. ?Leadership for and in the Arts ?83 Lynda Tredway and Rebecca Wheat 6. ?Arts Integration: One School, One Step at a Time ?91 Debra Koppman 7. ?Musical People, a Musical School ?102 Sarah Willner PART IV: ART EVERY DAY 8. ?Visual Prompts in Writing Instruction: Working with Multilingual Middle Schoolers ?119 Dafney Blanca Dabach 9. ?Creativity as Classroom Management: Using Drama and Hip-Hop ?128 Evan Hastings 10. ?Keeping Reading and Writing Personal and Powerful: Bringing Poetry and Bookmaking Together ?139 Cathleen Micheaels 11. ?Learning and Teaching Dance in the Elementary Classroom ?157 Patty Yancey 12. ?Teaching Artists-A Vital Link Toward a Thriving Ecosystem ?166 Ann Wettrich Afterword Lois Hetland ?177 About the Editors and Contributors ?187 Index ?191
Both a practitioner's guide and a school reform model, the new edition of this popular book shares exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be followed, each chapter carefully describes how the arts offer an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn to assist teachers in developing their own philosophy and practice. This updated second edition features scholarship and art at the forefront of contemporary practice and addresses social justice issues such as racial, climate, and economic justice. Chapter authors provide concrete ideas along with lively examples of public school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter that includes English, social studies, science, and mathematics. The book's narrative approach makes arts integration accessible and understandable to novice and experts alike. Readers of this new edition will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts every day, in every school, to reach every child. Book Features: Explains how arts integration across the K-8 curriculum contributes to student learning. Features examples of how integrated arts education functions in classrooms when it is done well. Introduces historical and contemporary artists whose work is transdisciplinary. Brings together and speaks to diverse stakeholders, including classroom teachers, teaching artists, school administrators, and teacher educators. Explores intensive teacher-education and principal-training programs now underway in several higher education institutions.
David M. Donahue is a professor of education at the University of San Francisco. Jennifer B. Stuart is an artist and educator who has worked for over 30 years developing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary curriculum.