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Smith, Ralph A.

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A Right to the Best: Or, Once More, Elitism Versus Populism in Art Education.

Year: 1985 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

The major issue in the elitist-populist controversy is what art works should be included in the curricula. Elitists defend the choice of exemplary art pieces as instructional materials; populists find this advocacy of ex...
Formulating a Defensible Policy for Art Education.

Year: 1984 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Basic policy questions are offered to help guide efforts to formulate policy for art education in the schools. A view of art education that is responsive to these questions and examples of policy recommendations that hav...
The Aesthetics of Monroe C. Beardsley: Recent Work.

Year: 1984 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Beardsley's explanation of how works of art have the capacity to give an aesthetic character to human experience provides a justification for art education in the schools. His major work, "Aesthetics," and subsequent wri...
From Aesthetic Criticism to Humanistic Understanding: A Practical Illustration.

Year: 1984 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

A unit of study, designed for a general humanities course at the community college level, illustrates the relevance of aesthetics, art history, and art criticism to art education. The unit is predicated on the belief tha...
The Arts in General Education Ideology: Some Critical Observations.

Year: 1983 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

To criticize the ideology of integrating the arts into general education, three questions are discussed: (a) What does the ideology assume about education? (b) What does it assume about art? (c) How has the ideology been...
Arts Education, Aesthetic Value, and Policy.

Year: 1982 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Discusses the problems inherent in combined arts education programs. The article argues that teachers in all the arts can pursue their common objective best by teaching their respective fields separately. (AM)...
Art, the Human Career, and Aesthetic Education.

Year: 1981 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

The author presents a conception of aesthetic education grounded in an aesthetic motivation and suggests that an important function of art is to occasion high levels of aesthetic experience, satisfying the universal huma...
On the Third Realm--Concepts and Aesthetic Education.

Year: 1979 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

The author discusses ways that Ausubel and Novak's theory of concept learning might be applied to aesthetic education. (SJL)...
Aesthetic Value and Education.

Year: 1979 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

The central concern of this article is the place of aesthetic value in education. (MM)...
Cultural Services and Teacher Preparation in the Arts

Year: 1973 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

Considered the professional preparation of art teachers in an address on teacher education. (RK)...
The Arts, Cultural Services, and Career Education: Recommendations for Curriculum Work

Year: 1973 • Source: eric.ed.gov • External Catalog

The purpose of this essay is to provide guidelines for curriculum development in the occupational cluster designated by the Center for Occupational and Adult Education of the Office of Education as "the fine arts and hum...