Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day

by Jessica Hoffmann Davis

Book Overview

This book champions the arts as essential to the K-12 educative process. Exploring apparently oppositional approaches to the arts and their role in education, it provides both an overview of arts learning in and out of school as well as a set of "artful" lenses through which to regard non-arts teaching and learning. With strong implications for practice, the work celebrates inquiry and multiple perspectives as it explores a range of reflections...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807745774
• ISBN13: 9780807745779
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"