Reflections from the Heart of Educational Inquiry: Understanding Curriculum and Teaching through the Arts(SUNY series in Curriculum Issues and Inquiries)

This unique book discusses and illustrates the ways the arts have influenced curriculum inquiry and the teaching and learning process. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, ontological, and political explanations of the influence of the arts on curricula. The second part offers personal accounts by well-known scholars who have been influenced by works of art and who have translated those influences into their classroom curricula and teaching.

Table of Contents:
Preface PROLOGUE: Reflections on the Origins of this Book George Willis and William H. Schubert I. PERSPECTIVES: Reflections on the Arts and Educational Inquiry 1. What the Arts Taught Me about Education Elliot W. Eisner 2. The Arts and an Artistic Curriculum Louis Rubin 3. The Role of Art Education in the Public School Harry S. Broudy 4. Curriculum and the Art of Daily Life Madeleine R. Grumet 5. The First Glamourizer of Thought: Theoretical and Autobiographical Ruminations on Drama and Education Robert Donmoyer 6. Blue Guitars and the Search for Curriculum Maxine Greene II. ILLUSTRATIONS: Reflections on the Arts by Educational Inquirers 7. The Arts and Transcendence: An Autobiographical Note Arthur W. Foshay 8. Native Experience: An Inspiration for Curriculum Leadership James Henderson 9. The Arts and Curriculum as Lingering Wanda T. May 10. Wondrous Possibilities: On the Value of an Artful Setting in Childhood Ann Lynn Lopez-Schubert 11. Curriculum and The Magic Flute Gail McCutcheon 12. "Deliver Me from the Days of Old": Rock and Roll (Etc.) as Liberation Kenneth Kantor 13. On Thinking as a Sacred Act, Coltrane Jazz, the Inaccessible, and Curriculum Jose R. Rosario 14. Sonare and Videre: Questioning the Primacy of the Eye in Curriculum Talk Ted T. Aoki 15. Dance as Curriculum, Curriculum as Dance Susan W. Stinson 16. The Arts and Education: Personal Agency and Social Possibility Landon E. Beyer 17. Camera Obscura: An Encounter with War at the Movies and a Personal Journey through the Flickering White Light William Ayers 18. "Hey Man, I'm Good": The Aesthetics and Ethics of Making Films in Schools Michael W. Apple 19. Blocks and Film and Other Media: The Aesthetics of Inquiry and Understanding from the Inside Out Francine Shuchat Shaw 20. Mondrian as Metaphor: Mondrian, Museums, and Curriculum Work Elizabeth Vallance 21. Reflections of Picasso's Guernica Janet L. Miller 22. The White Cockatoo: Images of Abstract Expressionism in Curriculum Theory William F. Pinar 23. A Poetry of Curriculum Inquiry Nelson L. Haggerson 24. Poetry and Curriculum Inquiry Delese Wear 25. In the Spotlight of Life: Dramatic Expression as Emancipatory Pedagogy Richard Butt 26. The Drama of the Classroom: Dramaturgy as Curriculum Inquiry Noreen B. Garman 27. Curriculum Inspired by Scrooge or "A Curriculum Carol" William H. Schubert 28. A Childhood Reading Max van Manen 29. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Reflections on the Aesthetics and Politics of Children's Literature Joel Taxel 30. An Accidental Astronaut: Learning with Science Fiction Noel Gough 31. The Significance of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest for Curriculum Workers Alex Molnar 32. A Personal Inquiry into the Curriculum of Melville's Moby Dick George Willis 33. Ambiguity and the Curriculum: Lessons from the Literary Non-Fiction of Norman Mailer Thomas E. Barone EPILOGUE References Contributors Index: Names Index: Works of Art

About the Author :
George Willis is Professor of Education at the University of Rhode Island. William H. Schubert is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Review :
"A fascinating book not only for curricularists but also for "liberal artists," i.e., those teaching in the humanities. It celebrates a connectedness rarely seen between theory and practice." — Mary A. Doll, Holy Cross College, New Orleans "This book demonstrates the great diversity of human experience and that within this diversity there is a clear, common orientation—education is not separate from life, and life is influenced by the arts." — Bernice J. Wolfson, University of Alabama, Birmingham "The book is highly evocative. In reading it, I was led to track down a reproduction of Jackson Pollack's The White Cockatoo, a copy of Wallace Stevens' The Man with the Blue Guitar, a videotape of the Bolshoi Ballet dancing Spartacus, and even a compact disc of Mozart's The Magic Flute from the local public library. In short, the essays are powerful. They whet the appetite and spur the reader to inquiries of her own." — Geneva D. Haertel, Independent Educational Consultant, Palo Alto, CA