Arts Education Reference Library

Books are organized in alphabetical order by title.

1. A Moving Experience: Dance for Lovers of Children and the Child Within by Teresa Benzwie
   Let A Moving Experience dance its way into your heart, as it has for thousands of others. More than 100 exercises help children discover qualities of space, time, numbers their bodies and rhythm.
2. Architecture is Elementary: Visual Thinking through Architectural Concepts by Nathan B. Winters
   Stimulating lessons challenge student and trigger creative responses. More than 50 lessons on 7 levels allow students to explore a variety of math and science principles.
3. Awakening Your Child’s Natural Genius: Enhancing, Curiosity, Creativity, and Learning Ability by Thomas Armstrong
   Dr. Thomas Armstrong argues that every child has the seed of brilliance lying deep within. Through more than 300 practical suggestions and activities, he shows how you can play a pivotal role as a parent in helping your child realize his true gifts.
4. Basic School: A Community for Learning by Ernest L. Boyer
   This text covers Boyer’s thoughts and beliefs pertaining to school reform and the basic school.
5. Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community by Alfie Kohn
   In this path-breaking book, Alfie Kohn questions the assumption that problems in the classroom are always the fault of the students who don’t do what they are told, suggesting that we might instead reconsider what they have been told to do - or learn.
6. Beyond Enrichment: Building Effective Arts Partnerships with Schools and Your Community by Jane Remer
7. Connections: The Arts and the Integration of High School Curriculum by Bruce O. Boston Read
   About the arts and the central role they play in the restructuring and integration of the curriculum. Many view the arts as a potent resource in unifying the secondary curriculum.
8. Contemporary Materials for Teaching New Aspects of Art Education by Gilbert Clark and Kevina Maher
   A catalog of resources that focus on Art Education.
9. Design as a Catalyst for Learning by Meridith Davis, Peter Hawley, Bernard McMullan, and Gertrude Spilka
   This publication documents the effective ways in which teachers and students are using design -- from products and graphics to architecture and city planning -- to enliven and enrich learning across the curriculum.
10. Discipline-Based Art Education: A Curriculum Sampler edited by Kay Alexander and Michael Day
    Teachers wishing to tailor their instruction to their individual school districts or adapt to their grade level can pick and choose from ideas included in this sampler.
11. Discovering Great Artists: Hands-on Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters by MaryAnn F. Kohl and Kim Solga
    One hundred and ten amazingly fun and unique art activities for children to experience the styles and techniques of the great masters, from the Renaissance to the present.
12. Education on the Edge of Possibility by Caine and Caine
    In this book, you’ll find out what happened when the Caines’ took their theory of learning, which is based on a holistic interpretation of brain research and strived to bring it to life in two schools.
13. Every Body Can Learn: Engaging the Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence in the Everyday Classroom by Marilyn Nikimaa Patterson
    Make teaching easier and more effective by using kinesthetic activities in your classroom. Combine this approach with traditional methods of teaching.
14. If the Shoe Fits! How to Develop Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom by Carolyn Chapman
    You’ll see how easy it is to transform Howard Gardner’s theory of MI into practical teaching methods. Each chapter focuses on one of the intelligences.
15. KIDVID: Fun-damentals of Video Instruction by Kay Black
    This comprehensive guide will help your students -- learn the basics of video production, develop analytical skills, construct criteria for evaluating and much more
16. Learning in and Through Art: A Guide to Discipline-Based Art Education by Stephen Mark Dobbs
    "...this guide is not only a guide for art educators, it is a model that can be emulated by those working in other fields. This is quite and achievement." - Dr. Elliot Eisner
17. Lessons About Art in History and History in Art by Mary Erickson
    Seventeen lesson plans include the integration of art and history.
18. Lessons for Teaching Art Criticism Edited by Terry Barrett
    This book embraces a broad range of topics including popular art, the built and natural environmental, multicultural concerns, and reveals the overlapping in practice of aesthetics, art history, art criticism, and making art.
19. Mapping Inner Space: Learning and Teaching Mind Mapping by Nancy Margulies
    Conceptual mapping is a significant advancement over traditional linear note taking. Use this creative method for note taking, curriculum planning, and as a teaching strategy.
20. Multiple Intelligences Handbook: Lesson Plans and More by Bruce Campbell
    Here are all the nuts and bolts for applying MI in your classroom from a teacher who has developed a nationally recognized MI program.
21. Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong
    The author describes how educators can bring Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences into the classroom everyday.
22. Smart Art: Learning to Classify and Critique Art by Patricia Hollingsworth and Stephen Hollingsworth
    This discipline-based program includes more than 35 black-and-white and 4 full-color art reproductions. It’s all here for the teacher-reproducible workbook pages, in-depth art background, teacher’s guide, and a complete art glossary.
23. Teaching Writing from a Writer’s Point of View by Terry Hermsen and Robert Fox, editors
    To be effective writing teachers must be writers themselves. This is the main idea this text, wherein students, teachers and professional writers provide their own creative writing pieces as well as reflections on writing and teaching writing.
24. Unleashing the Power of Perceptual Change by Caine and Caine
    This book documents the voyage of exploration as the Canes watched teachers change from individuals who use traditional teaching to those who are at home with rich, complex environments where possibility and opportunity rule.
25. Why Workshop? Changing Course in 7-12 English by Richard Bullock
    This text offers English and language arts teachers in grades 7 through 12 sound advice on using writing and reading workshops as the primary organization of their classrooms.