Emphasis Art: A Qualitative Art Program for Elementary and Middle Schools - Hardcover

Clements, Robert; Wachowiak, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137145829 ISBN 13: 9780137145829

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

This beautifully illustrated text reflects the latest trends in art education and demonstrates how to motivate students to learn by integrating art with other content areas.  Emphasis Art, 9/e focuses on the intrinsic worth of art-studio experience through its Discipline-Based Art Education approach, as well as on the process of implementing art education into classroom practice.   Useful for both general classroom teachers and art specialists, this popular text promotes art appreciation while providing a wealth of creative ideas and clear technical direction, including lesson plans that incorporate instructional objectives.

About this title

About the Author

Robert D. Clements, Professor of Art, taught art education at the University of Georgia for 25 years. There, he won the University’s highest awards for his teaching and research. A renowned artist in his own right, Dr. Clements’s works are on display in museums and institutes throughout the world. Besides his sculpture and public art, he has written three books and 60 articles and directed many grant projects. Born in Pittsburgh, PA,Dr. Clements received his BFA degree from Carnegie Mellon University and his graduate art degrees from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Clements is recognized for his work in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in America. He has written the fifth through current editions of Emphasis Art. To understand Dr. Clements’s influence on the world of art and art education, one need only speak with the many art teachers throughout the country who speak of him with reverence and who don’t hesitate for a moment to provide their students’ works for use in his books.

 

Frank Wachowiak (1913–1998) was a master teacher and artist whose approach to teaching art to children is recognized throughout the field. Born in Wisconsin, he received his degrees from the University of Iowa where he subsequently taught until moving to the University of Georgia in 1967. For 50 years his passion for a life in art was evident as he worked in the happy, charged environment of children searching, discovering, and creating through art.As he taught and studied children’s art

all over the world (particularly while at the University of Iowa Lab School and the University of Georgia Children’s Art Classes),

Dr.Wachowiak found that it was easy to stay young at heart. Since his passing in 1998, every edition of Emphasis Art, including this one, has built off of his inspiring words and clear technical directions, as well as his model of including beautiful examples of children’s art.

From the Back Cover

This beautifully illustrated text filled with rich examples of student work reflects the latest trends in art education and demonstrates how to motivate students to learn by integrating art with other content areas. Emphasis Art continues to focuses on the intrinsic worth of art-studio experience through its Discipline-Based Art Education approach, as well as the process of implementing art education in classroom practice. Useful for both general classroom teachers and art specialists, this popular text promotes art appreciation while providing a wealth of creative ideas and clear technical direction, including lesson plans that incorporate objectives.

 

A valuable resource for pre-service elementary school teachers, the ninth edition also provides a practical handbook for a teacher’s first classroom including: 

 

• New! A Window on the Classroom and Application Opportunities. 

  Practical information for today’s teachers including a focus on integrating art instruction into the general classroom with individual chapters across the discipline areas, sequential curricula for grades K-8, art appreciation, and art production. 

• Hundreds of specific, practical suggestions and lesson plans help teachers implement art education in their classrooms.
• National Art Education Association Standards appear on the inside front cover, with chapter correlations, so readers can readily find content relating to specific standards.
• New! Stimulating New Examples of Authentic Children's Artwork
• Revised! Coverage of the Contextual Nature of Art is carried throughout the text and reflected in children’s artwork. Additionally, Chapter 7, Art and Social Studies has been moved earlier in the book and revised to reflect a greater emphasis on the contextual nature of art and visual culture. 
• Revised! Coverage of Art and Technology - Chapter 28, "Computer Art, Digital Photography, Video, and the Web" has been updated to reflect the ongoing changes in technology and their influence on directions in art creation and art instruction.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137145829
• ISBN 13: 9780137145829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432