Arts as Meaning Makers, The: Integrating Literature and the Arts Throughout the Curriculum

Arts as Meaning Makers, The: Integrating Literature and the Arts Throughout the Curriculum, 1/e

Claudia E. Cornett, Wittenberg University

Published December, 1998 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

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Summary

This comprehensive, introductory text shows teachers how to meaningfully integrate literature, art, drama, dance, and music throughout curricular areas by providing a basic arts knowledge base, clear reasons for integration, and the application of basic integration principles. Intended for undergraduate education majors or practicing classroom teachers new to the concept of integrating the arts, the text's creative problem-solving process and integrated approach uses the arts as tools to learn. The only book on the market which clearly makes the case to integrate the arts on a daily basis, it summarizes the concepts and skills of five art forms and shows teachers how to plan and implement units and specific lessons which integrate at least one art form with a curricular area in each lesson.

Features

Emphasizes active meaning-oriented learning which helps students gain independent skills.
Contains the WHAT, WHY, and HOW structure which enables readers to go to an arts area and to receive: research to justify integration of the arts (WHY), specific arts elements and concepts to teach (WHAT), ten basic principles to integrate the arts, a multitude of strategy seed ideas (HOW), example lesson plans and classroom vignettes of theory into practice in every chapter.
Provides a specific knowledge base in five arts areas within a concise format so teachers have one place to access arts elements and concepts.
Includes a categorized bibliography of arts based children's literature.
Summarizes key information on one page so students can copy for ready references in “Post it Pages.”
Invites active reading by providing think stops to transform and apply information in the “Take Action” text inserts.
Includes a special set of interventions for special needs students in each chapter.

Table of Contents

Forward by Barbara Shepherd, The Kennedy Center's Partners in Education Program.
1. An Introduction to Teaching With, About, In and Through the Arts.
2. Integrating the Arts Throughout the Curriculum.
3. Integrating Literature Throughout the Curriculum.
4. Literature Seeds Strategy.
5. Integrating Visual Art Throughout the Curriculum.
6. Art Seed Strategies.
7. Integrating Drama Throughout the Curriculum.
8. Drama Seed Strategies.
9. Integrating Dance and Creative Movement Throughout the Curriculum.
10. Dance Seed Strategies.
11. Integrating Music Throughout the Curriculum.
12. Music Seed Strategies.
13. Integrating the Arts with the Arts: Strategy Seed Ideas.
14. Questions Often Asked.
Appendix A. Arts-Based Children's Literature.
Appendix B. Award-Winning Children's Literature.
Appendix C. Arts Organizations, Addresses and Internet Sites.
Appendix D. Interest Inventory.
Appendix E. Discipline Prevention and Intervention Strategies.
Appendix F. Bibliography of Recommended Reading and Videos.
Index.