Art Education Reference and Resource Materials | California College of the Arts (CCA) Libraries

A CCA Libraries guide to resources supporting art education pedagogy at CCA.

Periodicals in Meyer Library

Art education
Arts education policy review (current is online)
The Journal of aesthetic education
NAEA news
Studies in art education
Teachers & writers magazine

Online and Print Journals available through the CCA Libraries

Selected Books in Meyer Library

Art and cognition : integrating the visual arts in the curriculum / Arthur D. Efland.
The art of teaching / Gilbert Highet.
*Art-based research / Shaun McNiff.
*Assessing expressive learning : a practical guide for teacher-directed, authentic assessment in K-12 visual arts education / Charles M. Dorn, Stanley S. Madeja, F. Robert Sabol.
*Assessment in art education / Donna Kay Beattie.
*Beginner's guide to community-based arts / Keith Knight, Mat Schwarzman and many others.
Class issues : pedagogy, cultural studies, and the public sphere / edited by Amitava Kumar.
*Community art in action / Kristin G. Congdon.
Context, content, and community in art education : beyond postmodernism / edited by Ronald W. Neperud.
*Courageous conversations about race : a field guide for achieving equity in schools / Glenn E. Singleton, Curtis Linton.
*Critical studies in art & design education / edited by Richard Hickman.
Cultivating humanity : a classical defense of reform in liberal education / Martha C. Nussbaum.
*Deweyan inquiry : from education theory to practice / James Scott Johnston.
Education and cultural studies : toward a performative practice / edited by Henry A. Giroux with Patrick Shannon.
Embracing contraries : explorations in learning and teaching / Peter Elbow.
*Engaging visual culture / Karen Keifer-Boyd and Jane Maitland-Gholson.
*Gender matters in art education / Martin Rosenberg, Frances Thurber.
*The gendering of art education : modernism, identity, and critical feminism / Pen Dalton.
Good work : when excellence and ethics meet / Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon.
*Handbook of research and policy in art education / edited by Elliot W. Eisner, Michael D. Day.
A history of art education : intellectual and social currents in teaching the visual arts / Arthur D. Efland.
*Howard Gardner under fire : the rebel psychologist faces his critics / edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler.
The hundred languages of children : the Reggio Emilia approach--advanced reflections / edited by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, George Forman.
In schools we trust : creating communities of learning in an era of testing and standardization / Deborah Meier.
*International dialogues about visual culture, education and art / edited by Rachel Mason and Teresa Torres Pereira de Eca.
*The language of art : inquiry-based studio practices in early childhood settings / Ann Pelo.
*Magic moments : collaboration between artists and young people / edited by Anna Harding.
Methodology of the oppressed / Chela Sandoval.
A mind at a time / Mel Levine.
The Montessori revolution in education / E. M. Standing.
Pedagogy of the oppressed / Paulo Freire.
Portraits and dreams : photographs and stories by children of the Appalachians / Wendy Ewald.
*The problem of assessment in art and design / edited by Trevor Rayment.
*Readings in primary art education / edited by Steve Herne, Sue Cox, Robert Watts.
Releasing the imagination : essays on education, the arts, and social change / Maxine Greene.
*Rethinking curriculum in art / Marilyn G. Stewart, Sydney R. Walker.
*Rethinking globalization : teaching for justice in an unjust world / edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson.
*Rethinking our classrooms : teaching for equity and justice / editors Bill Bigelow et al.
*Rethinking school reform : views from the classroom / edited by Linda Christensen and Stan Karp.
The right to learn : a blueprint for creating schools that work / Linda Darling-Hammond.
*Roots of art education practice / Mary Ann Stankiewicz.
Smart schools : better thinking and learning for every child / David Perkins.
*Studio thinking : the real benefits of visual arts education / Lois Hetland et al.
*Talking about student art / Terry Barrett.
*Teaching meaning in artmaking / Sydney R. Walker.
*Teaching the levees : a curriculum for democratic dialogue and civil engagement / Margaret Smith Crocco, editor.
Teaching to change the world / Jeannie Oakes, Martin Lipton.
Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom / Bell Hooks.
*Teaching youth media : a critical guide to literacy, video production & social change / Steven Goodman.
*Thinking through aesthetics / Marilyn G. Stewart.
*The third teacher : 79 ways you can use design to transform teaching & learning / OWP/P Architects, VS Furniture, Bruce Mau Design.
To open minds / Howard Gardner.
*Towards a promised land / Wendy Ewald edited by Louise Neri.
*Using the art museum / Denise L. Stone.
*Video for change : a guide for advocacy and activism / edited by Sam Gregory et al.
*When we were young : new perspectives on the art of the child / edited by Jonathan Fineberg.
Why art cannot be taught : a handbook for art students / James Elkins.
* added since 2005

Selected Videos in Meyer Library

The arts in every classroom : a video library, K-5 / Southeast Center for Education in the Arts.
ArtShow : youth and community development / director and producer, Shirley Brice Heath.
How difficult can this be? : understanding learning disabilities : frustration, anxiety, tension, the F.A.T. city workshop / produced and directed by Peter Rosen.
Kids of survival / produced, directed and photographed by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.
MI : intelligence, understanding, and the mind : an illustrated presentation / by Howard Gardner.
Portraits & dreams : photographs by Appalachian children / producers Andrew Garrison and Wendy Ewald.
School, the story of American public education/ directed by Sarah Mondale.
Secrets of the mind / V.S. Ramachandra.

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