Conversations in Art: The Dialectics of Teaching and Learning

In an innovative, decade-long project, experienced art educators recorded teachers engaging with students, and later reviewed and critiqued these recordings to compile "snapshots" of classroom life unlike any documented before. This resource is for art teachers and researchers who realize the importance of thinking "outside the box" to grapple with the serious issues and rhetorical definitions clouding the practice of art education. Conversations in Art is the work of the Research Task Force on Student Learning, a core group of 20 professional art educators whose diversity of experiences and backgrounds enriched the insights and perspectives, and culminated in the unique personal reflections and writing styles of this lively and engaging resource. For those interested less in traditional forms of school-based inquiry and more in obtaining a deeper understanding of what a group of selected art educators thought about what they did and why, and how this shaped their philosophy and teaching practice.