A Primer on Arts Integration
Strategies, Lessons, and Collective Wisdom of Teacher Leaders
Welcome to the permanent page of A Primer on Arts Integration: Strategies, Lessons, and Collective Wisdom of Teacher Leaders, an edited collection that provides middle and high school classroom teachers of English language arts, social studies, and other disciplines the inspiration and insight necessary to utilize an arts integration approach in their teaching.
Whether you want your students to create documentaries, maps, mixed media, songs, quilts, dances, masks, or a remix of multiple art forms, the point of school can be more about how students create their own meaning in powerful ways and harness their creativity for social good.
Arts integration is one approach demonstrated to be invaluable in these terms, moving teachers and students into a ‘what can we create today?’ mindset sure to inject energy into classrooms, learning, and lives.
In an effort to enact both the land-grant mission of the University of Arkansas and the Center for Children and Youth’s statewide mission of spreading creative learning opportunities for teachers and students, this book is provided in the link below in its entirety. This limited open access was made possible by a generous grant from the College of Education and Health Professions’ WE CARE Initiative founded by Dean Kate Mamiseishvili. The Center for Children and Youth exists to expand creative learning and pro-social development opportunities for students and teachers of Arkansas, especially serving those in broadly defined disadvantaged situations.
Endorsements
Arts-Integrated theory and practice create a beautiful dance, are quilted together, and even recite a theatrical monologue in this book that takes arts integration in multiple forms and puts it into terms that work for the busy classroom teacher. Written by classroom teachers, passion and professionalism are evident in each chapter as the strategies and stories about them unfold to provide a platform for teachers to grow in their practice and to create vibrant classrooms along the way.
Sean Layne, Focus 5 Inc.
For all of us working in the arts, arts integration is a term that gets thrown around with many competing definitions. The authors have taken all that and made it practical and useful for this generation of learners. This book has the special sauce for making arts integration relevant to student learning and encouraging creativity though practical examples that can and will inspire you to try them out. After reading this book you will want to sing, dance, draw, and make art in your classroom or museum.
Zev Slurzberg, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
While the book is provided below for reading purposes, please consider purchasing a copy from the publisher, Information Age Publishing.
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