International Handbook of Research in Arts Education

History.- Prelude: History of Education and Arts Education.- Capitalizing Art Education: Mapping International Histories.- Interlude: Arts Education, the Aesthetic and Cultural Studies.- A History of Drama Education: A Search for Substance.- The Teaching and Learning of Music in the Settings of Family, Church, and School: Some Historical Perspectives.- Interlude: History Looking Forward.- Social History and Dance as Education.- The Teaching of English Language Arts as Poetic Language: An Institutionalist View.- Curriculum.- Prelude: Making Sense of Curriculum Research in Arts Education.- Currents of Change in the Music Curriculum.- Experiencing the Visual and Visualizing Experiences.- Interlude: On Learning to Draw and Paint as an Adult.- Proteus, the Giant at the Door: Drama and Theater in the Curriculum.- Narrative as Artful Curriculum Making.- Interlude: Imagining Ms. Eddy Alive, or, the Return of the Arts Teacher and her Personalized Curriculum.- Dance Curriculum Research.- Music (and Arts) Education from the Point of View of Didaktik and Bildung.- Arts Integration in the Curriculum: A Review of Research and Implications for Teaching and Learning.- Artists in the Academy: Curriculum and Instruction.- Assessment and Evaluation.- Prelude: Making Connections in Assessment and Evaluation in Arts Education.- To See and to Share: Evaluating the Dance Experience in Education.- Harmonizing Assessment and Music in the Classroom.- Interlude: Reflections on a Line from Dewey.- Assessing English within the Arts.- Wrestling with Assessment in Drama Education.- Interlude: Assessment and Evaluation in Education and the Arts.- Evaluation Research in Visual Arts Education.- Composition.- Prelude: The Composition Section Composing as Metaphor and Process.- Compositional Process in Music.- Four Metaphors of the Composing Process.- Interlude: Metaphor and the Mission of the Arts.- Composition in Theater: Writing and Devising Performance.- Research in Choreography.- Interlude: Art and Metaphor, Body and Mind.- Composing in Visual Arts.- Appreciation.- Prelude: Locating the Heart of Experience.- Moving into Dance: Dance Appreciation as Dance Literacy.- Appreciation: The Weakest Link in Drama/Theater Education.- Music Appreciation: Exploring Similarity and Difference.- Later "In the Early World": The Changing Role of Poetry and Creative Writing in the K-12 Classroom.- Teaching Toward Appreciation in the Visual Arts.- Interlude: The Arches of Experience.- Interlude: On Reading Maxine's Interlude.- Postcards from "A World Made Possible": Excerpts from Virtual Conversations.- Museums and Cultural Centers.- Prelude: Museums, Cultural Centers, and What We Don't Know.- The Role of Theater in Museums and Historic Sites: Visitors, Audiences, and Learners.- Questions Asked in Art-museum Education Research.- Interlude: Art Information, Arts Learners: The Role of Libraries.- "Private Teaching, Private Learning": An Exploration of Music Instrument Learning in the Private Studio, Junior and Senior Conservatories.- Interlude: Cultural Centers and Strategies of Being: Creativity, Sanctuary, the Public Square, and Contexts for Exchange.- Music Beyond School: Learning through Participation.- Informal Learning.- Prelude: Framing Informality.- In the Beginning: Pleistocene and Infant Aesthetics and 21st-century Education in the Arts.- Interlude: Two or More Forms of Music.- Learning Aesthetic Values in African Musical Worlds.- Interlude: An Ethnomusicological Perspective.- Creative Media Cultures: Making and Learning Beyond the School.- Child Culture.- Prelude: The Arts and Children's Culture.- Children as Agents in Dance: Implications of the Notion of Child Culture for Research and Practice in Dance Education.- Musical Meaning in Children's Cultures.- The Culture of Childhood and the Visual Arts.- Interlude: A Story of Visual Cultural and Pedagogical Webs.- Children's Culture and Mimesis: Representations, Rubrics, and Research.- Social and Cultural Issues.- Prelude: Social and Cultural Perspectives in Arts Education Research.- Research on Drama and Theater for Social Change.- Critical Social Issues in Dance Education Research.- Interlude: The Pulse of Art: What is and What Might be.- Social Issues in Music Education.- Master Narratives and Oppositional Texts: Aesthetics and Black Literature for Youth.- Interlude: War, Violence, and Peace in the Arts.- Conflict and Peace: Challenges for Arts Educators.- Social Issues in Art and Visual/Material Culture Education.- The Body.- Prelude: Moving from Still Life: Emerging Conceptions of the Body in Arts Education.- The Body in a State of Music.- Drama Education and the Body: "I Am, Therefore I Think".- Student Bodies: Dance Pedagogy and the Soma.- Interlude: Astonished by a Stone: Art and the Eloquence of Matter.- Extreme Bodies: The Body as Represented and Experienced through Critical and Popular Visual Culture.- The Body also has a History: A Critical Aesthetics for Arts Education.- Creativity.- Prelude: Provocations in Creativity Research.- Creativity as Research Practice in the Visual Arts.- Routes to Understanding Musical Creativity.- Artistic Creativity, Ethics, and the Authentic Self.- Conceptions of Creativity in Drama Education.- Interlude: The Art of Creativity.- Human Music.- Creativity Research in Dance.- Technology.- Prelude: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, and Values: Technology and its Role in Arts Education.- Digital Literacy: What it Means for Arts Education.- Computer-based Technology and Music Teaching and Learning: 2000-2005.- Understanding the Message of the Medium: Media Technologies as an Aesthetic.- Interlude: Technology and Arts Education.- Art Education Avatars in Cyberspace: Research in Computer-based Technology and Visual Arts Education.- Technology in Dance Education.- Spirituality.- Prelude: Plumbing the Depths of Being Fully Alive.- Spirituality in the Musical Experience.- Japanese Spirituality and Music Practice: Art as Self-cultivation.- Interlude: The Force that Rides the Sound.- The Soul Moves: Dance and Spirituality in Educative Practice.- Interlude: Astonishing Wonder: Spirituality and Poetry in Educational Research.- Concerning the Spiritual in Art Education.- Interlude: Education, Spirituality, and the Arts.- Spiritual Ecology in Art Education: A Re-vision of Meaning.... 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