Arts Integration: Teaching Subject Matter through the Arts in Multicultural Settings - Softcover

Goldberg, Merryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132565560 ISBN 13: 9780132565561

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

Even if you or your students have limited exposure to the arts, this innovative and unique text will help you learn how to teach about the arts and how to instruct your students by learning through the arts. In exploring numerous ways in which the arts (visual, music, dance, and theater) can be integrated throughout the K-8 curriculum and used to teach the subject areas, the text provides a multitude of strategies and examples of learning through classroom activities such as music, dance, and poetry. Arts integration: An Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings, Fourth Edition, reflects contemporary theory and practice and promotes ideas and skills that tap children's propensity for creativity and critical thinking.

 

The fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes: revised and current references throughout; a keen focus on assessment and the potential of assessing students' work though arts-based methods; new information concerning the role of visual literacy in learning and especially reading; a strong focus on reading methods through art and theater; a focus on English language learners and the value of using art in capability to achieve and succeed, and a “top-ten” list of the what education needs and has lost sight of over the last decade such as encouraging children's desire to learn, ability to take risks, to improvise solutions, to think creatively, and how the arts can support these attributes.

 

Written for teachers, especially of K-8 students, who wish to learn how to provide an arts curriculum to their students in unique and integrated ways, the text provides a multitude of strategies and examples of learning through classroom activities such as music, dance, and poetry, reflects contemporary theory and practice, and promotes ideas and skills that tap children's propensity for creativity and critical thinking.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

With renewed public emphasis on 21st Century Skills such as creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration, Arts Integration: Teaching Subject Matter through the Arts in Multicultural Settings, Fourth Edition,  will guide you in teaching about the arts and through the arts―ultimately supporting your students in developing these skills. Blending contemporary theory with classroom practice, Merryl Goldberg promotes ideas and skills that tap children's propensity for creativity and critical thinking while also developing communications skills and fostering collaborative opportunities. 

While exploring numerous ways in which the K-8 classroom teacher may integrate the arts –literary, visual, and performing –throughout core subject area curriculum, this practical book provides a multitude of strategies and examples of learning through classroom activities such as music, dance, and poetry.

 

The fourth edition now also provides a deeper look at assessment and the arts, engaging English Language Learners, and using the arts to teach skills such as reading.

 

New to the Fourth Edition:

• Updated references, including recent research that bolsters the need for and multiple roles of the arts have in the classroom, are found throughout the text 
• A "top ten" list of the ways arts are fundamental to creating the space for learning including a discussion of wonder, passion, risk taking, and creating confident learners can be found in chapter 2.
• A deeper attention to the role of arts in reaching and supporting English Language Learners can be found throughout the text.
• Attention to the role of "visual literacy" especially with regard to the teaching of reading is highlighted in chapters 4 and 8.
• Heavily revised and revamped assessment chapter (Ch. 9) outlines several ways to utilize the arts to create and assess student learning outcomes, and debunks several myths regarding the arts and assessment.
• Chapter 10 includes a discussion of DREAM - Developing Reading Education Through Arts Methods.  This federally funded research project paves the way for using visual arts and theater as a vital teaching tool for reading.  

About the Author:

Merryl Goldberg is a Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) where she teaches courses on Arts & Learning, and Music and where she is founder and director of Center ARTES, a center dedicated to restoring arts to education through working with the San Diego County Office of Education, arts partners, parents, and teachers. She has numerous publications including books, articles, chapters, editorials, and blogs. She is the recipient of numerous grants including a Federal Department of Education Innovation grant, a joint Spencer and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur grant, Fulbright-Hays Foundation grants, and California Arts Council grants relating to her work with arts in the schools.  Prior to entering academia, she recorded numerous CDs and was on the road for 13 years playing the saxophone with the Klezmer Conservatory Band.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0132565560
• ISBN 13: 9780132565561
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 288