This book offers a clarion call, in the words of Franklin Roosevelt, to "try something!" And not just any something. A systematic, integrated, chronological, multi-disciplinary approach to reinvigorate the teaching of the liberal arts and put them back where they belong-at the center of a student's educational experience. It does not pretend to offer a cure-all or a one-size-fits-all solution to everything that is ailing American higher education, or even secondary education. It does, however, offer a place to begin a discussion, to invite experimentation, and to initiate reform based on solid pedagogy and 2,500 years of time-tested wisdom in the human experience. As such it should be of interest to many people. Those in higher education serious about the crisis facing their institutions could benefit from taking up the gauntlet this volume throws down. For students and parents, the book raises alternatives and poses some hard questions that they should be asking not only as they consider colleges and universities, but of their secondary schools. In fact, anyone who keeps a close eye on the state of education would be interested in what this book adds to the discussion.

This collection provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old. In a series of studies, contributors reconsider evaluation practices used in art education and examine current ideas about children's development of visual skills and abilities. Suggesting a variety of novel approaches, they provide crucial support to those who advocate assessment based on international standards. Such assessment, this volume shows, contributes to our knowledge about visual skills and their development, improving art education and its chances to survive the twenty-first century as a respected and relevant school discipline.

Award-winning illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh brings to life debut author Gloria Amescua's lyrical biography of an indigenous Nahua woman from Mexico who taught and preserved her people's culture through modeling for famous artists She was Luz Jimenez, child of the flower-song people, the powerful Aztec, who called themselves Nahua- who lost their land but who did not disappear. As a young Nahua girl in Mexico during the early 1900s, Luz learned how to grind corn in a metate, to twist yarn with her toes, and to weave on a loom. By the fire at night, she listened to stories of her community's joys, suffering, and survival, and wove them into her heart. But when the Mexican Revolution came to her village, Luz and her family were forced to flee and start a new life. In Mexico City, Luz became a model for painters, sculptors, and photographers such as Diego Rivera, Jean Charlot, and Tina Modotti. These artists were interested in showing the true face of Mexico and not a European version. Through her work, Luz found a way to preserve her people's culture by sharing her native language, stories, and traditions. Soon, scholars came to learn from her. This moving, beautifully illustrated biography tells the remarkable story of how model and teacher Luz Jimenez became "the soul of Mexico"-a living link between the indigenous Nahua and the rest of the world. Through her deep pride in her roots and her unshakeable spirit, the world came to recognize the beauty and strength of her people. The book includes an author's note, timeline, glossary, and bibliography.

For over a decade, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education has served as the guide to multicultural art education, connecting everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning. The much-anticipated Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education continues to provide an accessible and practical tool for teachers, while offering new art, essays, and content to account for transitions and changes in both the fields of art and education. A beautifully-illustrated collaboration of over one hundred artists, writers, curators, and educators from in and around the contemporary art world, this volume offers thoughtful and innovative materials that challenge the normative practices of arts education and traditional art history. Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education builds upon the pedagogy of the original to present new possibilities and modes of understanding art, culture, and their relationships to students and ourselves. The fully revised second edition provides new theoretical and practical resources for educators and students everywhere, including: Educators' perspectives on contemporary art, multicultural education, and teaching in today's classroom Full-color reproductions and writings on over 50 contemporary artists and their works, plus an additional 150 black-and-white images throughout Lesson plans for using art to explore topical issues such as activism and democracy, conflict: local and global, and history and historicism A companion website offering over 250 color reproductions of artwork from the book, a glossary of terms, and links to the New Museum and G: Class websites---www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415960854.

Engaging activities provide endless opportunities for pen control practice. Children can trace over and add their own marks and drawings to the scenes while developing the fine motor skills they will eventually need for writing. There are lots of ideas for things to draw on each page and the fold-out page at the back can be left open for further inspiration.

This Element focuses on the development of drawing (and painting) in childhood. The author begins by examining children's representational drawing, a topic that has received quite wide attention from the nineteenth century on. The author then turns to issues that have received far less attention and discusses the aesthetic property of expression, weighing the claim that young children's highly expressive drawings bear an affinity to twentieth century modernist art. The author then examines the function of drawing for children's emotional development. Next, looking at art prodigies, the author turns to the how of drawing, considering the relation of drawing talent to IQ and to visual-spatial skills. Finally, the author considers the relation between development and education in art and how educators can best nurture children's artistic development.

A new addition to the series that Serena Williams calls "a fun way to inspire children's imagination and creativity!" Discover the wonders of fine art with this enchanting read-aloud bedtime book featuring some of the world's iconic paintings! Nurture your child's creativity as they get ready for bed by reading gentle rhymes accompanied by delightfully curated artworks illustrating the night sky, sleeping animals, and more in this perfect book to end the day. In this collection, your child will journey from sunset to moonrise through artworks by Mary Cassatt, Gustav Klimt, Katsushika Hokusai, and many others. Describe the serene skies in Claude Monet's Stacks of Wheat, imagine the gentle snores of George Stubbs's Sleeping Leopard, and say goodnight to the tranquil moon in Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy. With a calming rhyming scheme and peaceful colors, Bedtime with Art will inspire your budding art lovers' imagination and dreams as they get ready to drift to sleep. . . .

Gott oder Darwin?

Widersprechen sich die Bilder der Religionen und die Theorien der Naturwissenschaften oder sind sie komplementare Darstellungsweisen einer Wirklichkeit? Wahrend Naturwissenschaften beschreiben, wie sich die Welt entwickelt hat und kausal den Wirklichkeitsprozess erklaren, geben Religionen jeweils eine Antwort darauf, wozu die Welt geschaffen wurde, und beschreiben sie teleologisch.

Das Buch Gott oder Darwin?" spannt einen Bogen, der eine konstruktive Auseinandersetzung von Schopfung und Evolution ermoglichen soll. Die Beitrage namhafter Vertreter der Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften belegen, dass Schopfung und Evolution keine Gegensatze sein mussen, aber verschiedene Intentionen verfolgen und Bilder pragen. Trotz dieser Unterschiedlichkeit verbindet sie die Erkenntnis, dass Grenzuberschreitungen zu Verzerrungen fuhren, die den jeweiligen Anspruchen nicht gerecht werden.

Evolution und Schopfung im konstruktiven Dialog"

This title is aimed at age 12 years and upwards. For more than thirty years, the bestselling "Draw 50" series has shown kids and aspiring artists alike to create everything from puppies to aircraft, horses to skyscrapers and aliens to racing cars. In this latest addition to the beloved series, Lee Ames shows how to draw sixty of his most popular drawings step by step. His clear instructions help budding artists learn the basic movements and procedures of drawing, allowing readers to explore their interests in a fun, familiar and easy-to-master way.

Ist Gott in den Genen zu finden?

Ist Religion gottlichen Ursprungs oder doch ein naturliches, also biologisches Phanomen? Und wenn Religion in unserer Biologie angelegt ist, wie und warum ist sie entstanden? Wie sehen ihre Anfange aus, die ja sehr einfach gewesen sein mussen Religion im Einzellerstadium sozusagen Wie entwickelte sie sich dann weiter, und lassen sich in dieser Entwicklung, wie bei der biologischen Evolution, Gesetzmassigkeiten feststellen? Anders ausgedruckt: Gibt es eine Biologie der Religionen beziehungsweise eine Biologie der Religionsentstehung?

Dieses Buch unternimmt erstmalig den Versuch einer umfassenden Antwort auf diese Fragen. Die Autoren Experten aus Biologie, Palaontologie, Psychologie, Religionswissenschaft und Theologie entwerfen auf der Basis facherubergreifender wissenschaftlicher Befunde ein Modell der Religionsentstehung, das das Aufkommen religioser Verhaltensweisen schlussig aus dem naturlichen Verhaltensrepertoire des Menschen erklart. So wird die menschheitsgeschichtliche Entwicklung von Religiositat plausibel und nachvollziehbar. Wer wissen will, wie Religion entstanden ist, wird in diesem breiten und sachkundigen Uberblick die Antwort finden.

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Die Gotter fielen nicht vom Himmel die biologischen Grundlagen der Religionsentstehung

Religion ist ein universal verbreitetes Phanomen, und uberall auf der Welt pragen religiose Uberzeugungen politisches und gesellschaftliches Handeln. Viele Menschen wollen verstehen, warum Religion trotz aller rationalen Kritik fortbesteht, und fragen deshalb auch nach ihren Anfangen und ihrer Entwicklung in der Menschheitsgeschichte.

"Gotter Gene Genesis" ist der ehrgeizige Versuch dreier interdisziplinar arbeitender Autoren, den Ursprung von Religion schlussig und nachvollziehbar zu erklaren. Ihr Buch verfolgt insofern einen originellen Ansatz, als es den aktuellen kognitionswissenschaftlichen und evolutionar-psychologischen Entwurfen zur Erklarung der Religionsentstehung eine ganz bewusst verhaltensorientierte Perspektive entgegensetzt: Religioses Verhalten wird konsequent verhaltenswissenschaftlich ethologisch, biologisch, psychologisch erklart. Entscheidende Faktoren fur die fruhe Entwicklung von Religiositat sind Territorialverhalten und Gefahrenabwehr, innerartliche Aggression und Ritualisierung, Angstbewaltigung und Konfliktlosung sowie die kulturelle Evolution als Fortsetzung der biologischen Evolution. Mit der konsequenten Herausarbeitung der biologischen Grundlagen bietet das Buch einen Uberblick zur Religionsentstehung, der sehr viel bodenstandiger und oft auch im Wortsinne anschaulicher ist als manch andere, spekulative Entstehungsszenarien. Die Lekture des Buches vermittelt dem Leser fundierte Kenntnisse uber die Erscheinungsformen und Geschichte religiosen Verhaltens und liefert so einen wichtigen Beitrag fur die heute oft so emotional gefuhrte Debatte zu Glaubensfragen. "

68 step-by-step, easy-to-understand art experiences illustrated in full color. Projects introduce techniquest in painting, weaving, k printing, clay, and working wth natural and recyclable materials.

Do you dream of exploring outer space? Then get ready for adventure with Easy Space Origami. With a few simple folds youll make a moon lander, a shining star, a green Martian, and so much more. Grab some paper and start folding!

Warum werden Roboter oft als bedrohlich empfunden? Konnen kunstliche Systeme Emotionen und Bewusstsein haben? Die Autoren gehen von der These aus, dass die Literatur- und Geistesgeschichte uns helfen kann, aktuelle Entwicklungen der Robotik unvoreingenommen zu betrachten. Denn ob es um mittelalterliche Mythen, androide Roboter der Romantik, die Aufklarung oder die Entwicklung der kunstlichen Intelligenz geht, stets stellt sich die Frage nach dem, was der Mensch ist, was sein Bewusstsein ausmacht und was ihn von anderen Wesen unterscheidet."

Stanley Lieber was just seventeen when he got his first job at Timely Comics in 1939. Since then, the man now known as Stan Lee has launched a comic book empire, made Marvel Comics a household name, and created iconic superheroes such as Iron Man, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four. Stan Lee is still dreaming up caped crusaders and masked vigilantes in his nineties. "Who Is Stan Lee?" tells the story of a New York City kid with a superhero-sized imagination.

This is book one of a series of three books. The series takes students on an interdisciplinary cross content journey entitled, Creating Art for All Ages. Each book provides experiences in language arts, social studies, math, and art as students investigate ancient and modern civilizations. Industry and Imagination in Ancient and Modern Civilizations is the third book of the series and examines the generations of the Industrial Revolution, society during WWI and WWII, and Modern and Contemporary times. During the era of the Industrial Revolution, the role of the artist transformed as the patronage changed and advancements in photography were able to portray likenesses. The artist sought new avenues by using art as an expressive tool. As time progressed, artistic expression navigated the art into innovative, imaginative, and unique styles. Art became whatever the artist intended it to be.

A tree stands on a hill by a river. As the sky changes, so does the tree, its branches filling with clouds, stars, snow, birds, mists, and the golden spring sun. One tree can mean many things.

Thomas Locker's lyrical text records the changes in the tree's world just as simply as a child might observe them, and his magnificent paintings crystallize the natural phenomena that embellish the tree on each page. Questions at the bottom of each page lead to a unique discussion in the back of the book, where art and science are intertwined, and further depth is added to the wonder of Sky Tree.

Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. "Research in Art and Design Education" answers this call, summarizing important issues in the field such as non-text based approaches and interdisciplinary work. Contributions from internationally renowned researchers explore a broad range of topics in art education, highlighting particular problems and strengths in the literature. An indispensable and engaging resource, this volume provides a long-awaited aid for students and teachers alike. ""Research in Art & Design Education" confirms Picasso's claim that artists do not seek, but find; thus capturing the real meaning of art's doing and how in doing art, we learn. From their respective positions, this book's contributors converge in making a strong case for art and design research as a horizon of specificities; as a wide and ever-expanding ground of autonomous plurality; and as a discipline that is neither restricted to the empire of fact and measure, nor to generalist platitudes. Under Richard Hickman's careful editorship, this book boldly makes the case that research in art and design education is not a subject-in-waiting and less so an affair restricted to arcane practices. Rather, it is a discipline invested in the exciting prospects of art's humanity and the design by which humans work together for a better world."--John Baldacchino, Columbia University

How many women artists can you name? From Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe, to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Xenobia Bailey, this lushly illustrated alphabet picture book presents both famous and underrepresented women in the fine arts from a variety of genres: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and more. Each spread features a simple line of text encapsulating the creator's iconic work in one word, such as "D is for Dots" (Yayoi Kusama) and "S is for Spider" (Louise Bourgeois), followed by slightly longer text about the artist for older readers who would like to know more. Backmatter includes photos, extended biographies, and discussion questions for budding creatives and trailblazers.