Transforming Education through the Arts

by Tanya Vaughan and Brian Caldwell

Book Overview

This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect the arts most severely.

Drawing on the wealth of evidence already available on the impact of the arts, including the findings of a landmark experimental study in Australia, this text considers:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415687020
• ISBN13: 9780415687027
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"