Visual Knowing: Connecting Art and Ideas Across the Curriculum / Edition 1

by Donovan R. Walling

Overview

Through lesson planning ideas, key words, resources, and visual thinking questions, this innovative resource demonstrates how visual arts can be used to teach across all subject areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412914499
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/13/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Donovan R. Walling is a writer, editor, educator, and consultant. He serves as a senior consultant for the Center for Civic Education. He has taught art, English, and journalism in the United States and abroad and has worked as a curriculum administrator in public school districts in Wisconsin and Indiana. From 1993 until 2006 he was director of publications for the education association Phi Delta Kappa International.

Walling is the author or editor of more than a dozen professional books for educators and numerous articles and other publications. He is nationally recognized in the field of art education, where some of his publications include Under Construction: The Role of the Arts and Humanities in Postmodern Schooling (Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1997); the Corwin Press books, Rethinking How Art Is Taught: A Critical Convergence (2000) and Visual Knowing: Connecting Art and Ideas Across the Curriculum (2005); the core chapter on visual and performing arts for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s Curriculum Handbook (2002), and the “Art in the Schools” entry for Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of Education (2003).

Walling’s recent books include Public Education, Democracy, and the Common Good (Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 2004) and Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners (Corwin Press, 2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction: Art and. . .
1. Art and Biography
2. Art and the Commonplace
3. Art and Competition
4. Art and Conflict
5. Art and the Family
6. Art and History
7. Art and Industry
8. Art and Mathematics
9. Art and Nature
10. Art and Performance
11. Art and Place
12. Art and Proportion
13. Art and Reality
14. Art and Religion
15. Art and Technology
Idea Guide
Subject Guide
Keyword Index
Artist Name Index

Editorial Reviews

"Offers exciting information organized and presented in a format that is easy to read, understand, and use in the classroom . . . accessible to teachers in all the subject areas. "

Pamela Fannin Wilkinson