The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be... followed, they carefully describe how the arts provide an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn. The book includes rich and lively examples of public school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter, including English, social studies, science, and mathematics. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts everyday, in every school, to reach every child. Both a practitioner's guide and a school reform model, this important book: Explains how arts integration across the K-8 curriculum contributes to student learning; Features examples of how integrated arts education functions in classrooms when it is done well; Explores intensive teacher-education and principal-training programs now underway in several higher education institutions; Offers concrete ideas for educators who are looking to strengthen their own skills.

The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be... followed, they carefully describe how the arts provide an entry point for gaining insight into why and how students learn. The book includes rich and lively examples of public school teachers integrating visual arts, music, drama, and dance with subject matter, including English, social studies, science, and mathematics. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of why and how to use the arts everyday, in every school, to reach every child. Both a practitioner's guide and a school reform model, this important book: Explains how arts integration across the K-8 curriculum contributes to student learning; Features examples of how integrated arts education functions in classrooms when it is done well; Explores intensive teacher-education and principal-training programs now underway in several higher education institutions; Offers concrete ideas for educators who are looking to strengthen their own skills.

Use the therapeutic potential of art to make progress in your practiceArtful Therapy shows you how to use art to make a difference in therapy. Using... visual imagery and art creation, you can help people with medical problems understand how they feel about their illness; victims of abuse "tell without talking"; and substance abuse and eating disorder clients tap into unresolved issues. These are just a few examples of how the power of art can improve your practice.Ideal for mental health professionals and allied workers with little or no art background, this accessible and proven guide takes you through the techniques of using art and visual imagery, and shows you how they can benefit clients of varying ages and abilities. With the art therapy tools provided, you can open potentially groundbreaking new dialogues with your clients.Author Judith Aron Rubin draws on more than forty years experience as an art therapist to help you maximize the value of art as a therapeutic tool, in both the mental health disciplines, such as psychology and social work, and related specialties.An accompanying DVD contains models for practitioners, showing art therapy being used in actual clinical practice. The DVD clearly models:* Initiating the art-making process* Using art in assessment* Using mental imagery, with or without art* Implementing other art forms--such as drama and music--in therapy* Using art with a variety of client types, including children, families, and groups* Assigning art as "homework"Whether or not you have used art therapy with your clients or are thinking about integrating art therapy in your practice, making the most of art in the clinical setting begins with Artful Therapy.

The original textbook that set the standard for art foundations courses across the country, Art Fundamentals has guided generations of students through... both the essential elements of art and the rich and varied history of their uses. We have organized Art Fundamentals to assist with "knowing" and "feeling" the fundamental concepts of refined creation. Our intent is to stimulate without locking students into a restricted mind-set or mechanical copying of ideas.

The original text that set the standard for introduction to art courses across the country, Art Fundamentals has guided generations of students through... the essential elements of art as well as the rich and varied history of their uses. This eleventh edition has been carefully revised to expand and clarify concepts throughout the text, while adding new material on developing ideas, critical thinking, and time and motion.

The original text that set the standard for introduction to art courses across the country, Art Fundamentals has guided generations of students through... the essential elements of art as well as the rich and varied history of their uses. The tenth edition expands the wealth of related study materials available to students and faculty by offering a student CD-ROM, Core Concepts in Art, packaged free with every new copy of the text, as well as a comprehensive text-specific Online Learning Center; together these materials reinforce the principles and elements of design with practical exercises, self-guided tutorials, interactive examples, and suggested student projects.

The field of art therapy is discovering that artistic expression can be a powerful means of personal transformation and emotional and spiritual healing.... In this book, Shaun McNiff, a leader in expressive arts therapy for more than three decades, reflects on a wide spectrum of activities aimed at reviving art's traditional healing function. In chapters ranging from "Liberating Creativity" and "The Practice of Creativity in the Workplace" to "From Shamanism to Art Therapy," he illuminates some of the most progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy:    •  The "practice of imagination" as a powerful force for transformation    •  A challenge to literal-minded psychological interpretations of artworks ("black colors indicate depression") and the principle that even disturbing images have inherent healing properties    •  The role of the therapist in promoting an environment conducive to free expression and therapeutic energies    •  The healing effects of group work, with people creating alongside one another and interacting in the studio    •  "Total expression," combining arts such as movement, storytelling, and drumming with painting and drawing