This open textbook was revised in 2018 under a Round Eleven Mini-Grant for Revisions and explores the topic of various fine arts integrations within elementary curricula. Topics include: Music, Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Performing Arts, Physical Education, and Movement. The main categories exhibit variations to implement curricula and syllabi.
Type of Material:
Open (Access) Textbook
Recommended Uses:
This textbook is meant to support art education for elementary teachers. It could be used in a general teacher education course to provide examples for prospective teachers of ways to integrate the arts into their curriculum. As well, individual units could be assigned to groups of students for in-class presentation. For in-service teachers, the text could be used to supplement what they already do.
Technical Requirements:
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Identify Major Learning Goals:
To help elementary teacher integrate art into their classes. The text classifies the context of arts in the curriculum, identifies types of arts, and applies each to the general curriculum.
Target Student Population:
College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Some basic knowledge of art is helpful but not mandatory.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
This textbook gives an in-depth tretment of the art knowledge needed by an elementary art teacher and student. It meets benchmarks that prospective teachers must meet in order to apply for certification.
Concerns:
none
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
This textbook can be easily integrated into any elementary arts education curriculum as a primary textbook or as a supplemental resource. The arts are relevant and important in the elementary school and should not be ignored.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The book is broken down by chapters and is very easy to navigate.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Concerns:
The video should have to access in the 2nd edition.
Creative Commons:
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