CREATIVITY & LEARNING
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Across the Street Around the World: A Handbook for Cultural Exchange
Jennifer Williams
Offers both a conceptual framework for thinking about the process of cultural exchange and practical advice for participants. It covers planning, fund-raising, evaluation, international contacts and useful publications and includes 25 original illustrations. ‘Well-informed, intelligent, and useful’—Animated.
ISBN: 0951476327
1996, BAAA, UK, 56 pages, 25 illustrations
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Art Education and Human Development
Howard Gardner
An incisive rethink of priorities in arts education with profound implications for all other areas of education. Dr Gardner, Professor of Education at Harvard University, proposes a new curricular model based on an integration of developmental psychology, art & education.
ISBN: 0892361794
Getty Education Institute for the Arts, USA, 80 pages
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Artists in the Community. Training Artists to Work in Alternative Settings
Americans for the Arts
A practical handbook offering advice for anyone designing, leading or hosting an arts programme in a community setting. The guide seeks to help artists by examining specific issues that seem to recur in sites where community arts programmes are implemented. It also looks at the various ways arts organisations have addressed these issues in the training of community artists.
1996, Americans for the Arts,USA, 52 pages
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Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Detention and Corrections: A Guide to Promising Pr
Grady Hillman
This detailed report describes a two-year intiative between the U.S. Department of Justice, through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the National Endowment for the Arts which offerred arts programming specifically for young offenders in juvenile detention and corrections facilities. Hillman examines how this programming could be used as a model for other regions and provide "promising practice" for arts initiatives nationwide.
OJJDP and NEA, USA, 40 pages
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Common Threads: Exhibition Catalogue
CCC & SCCC
This publication describes the Common Threads: Participation for a Better World exhibition, featuring 14 projects from 10 European countries united through an exploration of six themes. The colour catalogue outlines the concepts behind the exhibition, highlighting the strengths and benefits of collaborative efforts as people take responsibility for the development of sustainable communities for the future, providing inspiration and models of good practice.
1999, CCC & SCCC, UK, 20 pages
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Seeing, Making, Doing: Creative Development in Early Years Settings (English Edition)
Sam Perkins, Centre for Creative Communities
This practical guide, part of the National Early Years Network’s ‘Starting Points’ series, provides a child-centred approach to integrating creative activity into the educational development of preschool children. Designed for early-years workers in many settings, the publication contains practical ideas and suggestions, as well as a summary of the educational theory that underlies them. It is well-supplied with illustrated case studies of arts projects successfully involving the under-fives.
ISBN: 1870985435
1998, National Early Years Network, UK, 39 pages
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Seeing, Making, Doing: Creative Development in Early Years Settings (Scottish Edition)
Ray Orley (ed.), Centre for Creative Communities
Seeing, Making, Doing is an invaluable guide for anyone involved in early learning work. This edition, written jointly by CCC and the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum (SCCC), adapts the text of the original English edition (see above) and draws on Scottish case studies to offer practical advice to staff of nurseries and early learning centres on ways to provide creative opportunities for young children.
ISBN: 1859556671
1999, SCCC, UK, 47 pages
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The CD-ROM of Common Threads: Participation for a Better World
Centre for Creative Communities
This CD contains the original text and images of the exhibition, the stories of each of the participating projects as well as all the papers delivered during the Common Threads conference, held in Glasgow during September 1999. The CD is PC and Macintosh compatible.
2001, CCC, UK
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Thoughts on Art Education
Rudolf Arnheim
Internationally noted psychologist and art educator, Arnheim summarises his ideas and insights about art education. His incisive views on what humans do to create art and what art does for humanity provide new insights into creative growth and the value of art in society.
ISBN: 0892361638
1989, Getty Education Institute for Arts, UK, 68 pages
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WHILE STOCKS LAST!
Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaning
Gail Burnaford et al (eds.)
This book invites readers to consider the possibilities for learning and growth when artists and arts educators come into a classroom and work with teachers to engage students in drama, dance, visual art, music and media arts. It is a nuts and bolts guide to arts integration, describing how students, teachers and artists get started with arts integration.
ISBN: 0-8058-3819-8
2001, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), USA, 265 pages
You Might Not Call It Singing
Roger Hill
This report draws on evidence from The Arts of Life, a study that was conducted to look at the role of creative expression in self-education. Hill presents case studies from the UK and features testimonies from people of all ages and social backgrounds in support of the the role creative activities play in our lives.
1993, Arts Council Print Unit, 48 pages
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