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Resources for School Subjects and Cultural Issues: Arts
Immediately below are culture
and arts resources for general instructional purposes followed by culture
and arts links for specific grade levels. This collection includes resouces
for dance, drama, music, and verbal and visual arts. When you click
on a resource link, a new browser window will open on top of this CIP
Web site window.
Some of these resources are maintained by the George
Mason University library system. To learn how to use this system as an
off-campus student, read the Library
Services for Distance Learners information.
General
Resources for Arts
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- Websites/Portals
- Academic
Info: Film and TV Studies Gateway
This Academic Info listing offers a collection of international
film Websites and film libraries and archives. (reviewed 2/27/03)
- American
Folklife - Center for Resources in Ethnographic Studies
The Library of Congress Center for Resources in Ethnographic Studies
Website lists links to resources, publications, and studies on
American folklore, folklife, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and
folk culture education. (reviewed 2/14/03)
- America's
Cultural Diversity
A Website maintained by the community of Princeton, NJ. This page
provides Native American art and cultural resource links. Use
the links on the sidebar to view art resources for other cultures,
art resources by media, and lesson plan links. (reviewed 2/14/03)
- ArtsEdNet
Home Page of the J. Paul Getty Website
A collection of lesson and curriculum plans for art education,
as well as image galleries, a search engine, and discussion threads
on issues related to art education. Curriculum and lesson resources
for art teachers for grades K-12 or for specific age groups can
be found at http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources.
(reviewed 2/14/03)
- ARTSLYNX,
International Art Resources
This megasite contains multinational links to Websites on the
dance, theater, music and visual arts cultures of many countries.
It also features teaching resources, including journal articles
on application of instructional theory, examples of program implementation,
and the arts and special populations. Pages from the ARTSLYNX
megasite devoted to specific arts or grade levels are listed in
the appropriate categories below on this CIP resource page. (reviewed
2/13/03)
- The Educator's Reference Desk
"The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface
to the ERIC [Educational Resources Information Center] Database, providing
access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research,
theory, and practice." The AskERIC service
and website were discontinued 12/19/03. Search
the new database for gender, equity and ethnicity related arts
lessons within a selected grade level. (reviewed
1/2/04)
- Critical
Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Social and Academic Development
A compendium of research studies and summaries of research that,
"explores… the interrelationships … in arts learning and in other
academic, personal, and social contexts and situations." The 2002
publication was sponsored by the Arts Education Partnership and
features studies and essays on dance, drama, multi-arts, music
and visual arts education at all grade levels. (reviewed 2/12/03)
- Ethnomusicology
The University of Maryland Baltimore County Ethnomusicology Website
offers an online peer-reviewed journal and a list of links to
other ethnomusicology institutions and publications. (reviewed
2/27/03)
- Folk
Art and Folklife Resources
The Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students (C.A.R.T.S.)
site contains a list of folk arts and folklife education articles,
teacher tools, and national, international, and regional resources
and organizations for K-12 educatos and students. (reviewed 2/13/03)
- FREE
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Arts
Web-based instructional materials from federal organizations such
as the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, and the
National Gallery on arts, architecture, music, photography and
art history subjects for all grades. (reviewed 3/11/03)
- The
Gateway to Educational Materials
Search
the Gateway database for gender, equity and ethnicity related arts
lessons within a selected grade level. (reviewed
1/2/04)
- Multicultural
Education and the Arts
A list of websites on the Multicultural Pavilion website providing
instructional resources and cultural information for teachers
of music, drama, dance, crafts, and arts. (reviewed 3/9/03)
- World,
International, and Ethnic Theatre Resources
ARTSLYNX list of international sites containing information on
theater in various countries. Not all sites are in English. The
free Babelfish
translator may provide assistance for some European
and Oriental languages. (reviewed 2/27/03)
- World
Portals and Ethnic Dance Forms
ARTSLYNX list of international sites containing information on
dance in various countries. Not all sites are in English. The
free Babelfish
translator may provide assistance for some European
and Oriental languages. (reviewed 2/27/03)
- Papers, Conferences and Reports
- Celebrating
Pluralism: Multicultural Approaches to Art Learning
Excerpts from the book by Dr. Graeme Chalmers and from a series
of panel discussions by educators on how to implement the theories
of multiculturalism into the teaching of art. Sponsored by the
Getty Center for Education in the Arts. (reviewed 2/13/03)
- A
Circle of Learning: Children Write Poetry and Teach Us about Themselves
This article by Elsa L. Stazner and Leah D. Miller appeared in
Volume 1, Number 3 of the Electronic
Magazine of Multicultural Education.
It describes a year-long program using poetry-writing to enhance
Latino children's mastery of English, and to enable graduate students,
working as teachers to these children, to connect more fully with
the children's experiences as immigrants. (reviewed 3/14/03)
- Contemporary
Art and Multicultural Education
This resource is a textbook used in ART 280, "Cultural Diversity
and Art Education." The book is maintained in the George
Mason University Library catalog at the Fenwick
Library, however, it may be sent to any GMU library location
for pickup
using InterCAMPUS
Lending Services. Use the following information to
request the book. Call Number: N353.C66 1996, ISBN: 0415911893
(hard cover), 0415911907 (paperback), editors: Susan Cahan and
Zoya Kocur, publisher: New Museum of Contemporary Art . Browse portions of the book online at amazon.com . (library
search conducted 2/15/03)
- Cross
Currents: Western Based Art Education is at a Cross Roads with
Indigenous Culture
This paper presented at InSEA (International Society for Education
through Art) World Congress 2002 is, "a survey of cultural
perspectives including a recent Australian conference and explores
the need for cultural frameworks for the interpretation and practice
of making art." (reviewed 11/29/04)
- Discipline-based
Art Education and Cultural Diversity
Proceedings from a national seminar sponsored by the Getty Center
for Education in the Arts, August 6-9, 1992.
The book is maintained in the George
Mason University Library catalog at the Fenwick Library,
however, it may be sent to any GMU library location for pickup
using InterCAMPUS Lending Services. Use the following information to
request the book. Call number: N108.D57 1994, ISBN: 0892362790,
authors: Getty Center for Education in the Arts, publisher: Getty
Center for Education in the Arts. (library search conducted 11/29/04)
- Home is Where the Art is: Exploring the Places
People Live through Art Education
This article appeared in Studies in Art Education Volume
44, Issue 1, in Fall 2002. The authors, Alice Lai and Eric L.
Ball, attempt to, "... [establish] the relevance of an ethnographic,
cultural studies/visual culture approach to art education focused
on issues regarding place." The article can be read online at
the George
Mason University Library Website by
going to the e-journals
section and referencing ISSN: 0039-3541.
(reviewed 3/11/03)
- Mixed
Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America
This resource is a textbook used
in ART 280, "Cultural Diversity and Art Education."
The book is maintained in the George
Mason University Library catalog at the Fenwick Library,
however, it may be sent to any GMU library location for pickup
using InterCAMPUS Lending Services. Use the following information to
request the book. Call number, N6537.5.L5 1990, ISBN: 0394577590,
author: Lucy R. Lippard, publisher: Pantheon Books. You can browse portions of this book at amazon.com. (library search
conducted 2/15/03)
- Lemonade or Merlot? Authentic Multiculturalism
and High Culture
This article by Harold M. Best appeared in Volume
104, Issue 1 of Arts Education Policy Review Sep/Oct 2002.
A philosophical discussion of art/music education, multiculturalism
and education policy. The article can be read online at the George
Mason University Library Website by
going to the e-journals
section and referencing ISSN: 1063-2913.
(reviewed 3/11/03)
- Using
Namibian Music/Dance Traditions as a Basis for Reforming Arts
Education
This article by Dr. Minette Mans was publilshed
in Volume 1, Number 3 of the International Journal of Education
and the Arts. It provides a methodology for music and dance
teachers to explore these arts in cultures other than their own.
The author uses a study of Nambian Music/Dance Traditions in Africa
to illustrate her methodology. (reviewed 2/27/03)
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Pre-School
Resources for Arts
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- Papers, Conferences and Reports
- Play and the Arts: The Importance of the
"Unimportant"
This article appeared in Volume 73, Issue 6 of the Childhood
Education journal in 1997. It studies, "… play as a phenomenon,
a part of our human resources that needs to be given special attention
and protection" and examines the relationship of play to art,
culture and learning in pre-school children. The article can be
read online at the George
Mason University Library Website by
going to the e-journals
section and referencing ISSN: 0009-4056.(reviewed
3/14/03)
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Elementary
School Resources for Arts
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- Papers, Conferences and Reports
- The Power of Storytelling: How Oral Narrative Influences Children's Relationships in Classrooms
This article by Robin Mello appeared in Volume 2, Number 1 of
the International Journal of Education and the Arts.
It relates the findings from an arts-based research project in
a fourth-grade classroom. "It examines the impact of storytelling
on children's self-concept… [and perceptions of]… their social
experiences in school." (reviewed 2/27/03)
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Middle
School Resources for Arts
Post-Secondary
School Resources for Arts
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