An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Art Education from Colonial Times to a Promising Future

by Ellen Winner

An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse recounts how art education has been conceptualized, taught, and advocated for in the United States in the face of its persistent marginalization in the education system. Tracing various rationales offered from the 19th century onward, Winner argues that art education has failed to be justified as a good in and of itself--and this failure has affected both the status of visual art education in our schools and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190061286
• ISBN13: 9780190061289
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"