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Author(s): Davis, Curtis W.
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1967
Some of you may have read the striking closing lines of Suzanne Langer's article, The Cultural Importance of the Arts. They seem to me highly pertinent to the theme of this conference: Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling. This is a large factor in the irrationalism which dictators and demogogues exploit.
Author(s): Kenton, Stan
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1967
Somehow I think a person gets more from music than he can get from any other artistic source. Constant exposure to music makes a person grow and mature. There are all kinds of music in his life; he finds that if he keeps conditioning himself or exposing himself to music, after a few years he's looking for another music. He is looking for another music because he needs music that reaches deeper and says more to him. The most doing, creative, achieving people I know are people that expose themselves to music all the time. They get up in the morning and have the radio on before they even clean
Author(s): Maslow, Abraham H.
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1967
Something big is happening. It's happening to everything that concerns human beings. Everything the human being generates is involved, and certainly education is involved. A new Weltanschauung is in the process of being developed, a new Zeitgeist, a new set of values and a new way of finding them - certainly a new image of man. There is a new kind of psychology -presently called the humanistic, existential, third-force psychology, which at this transitional moment is certainly different in many ways from the Freudian and behavioristic psychologies - two great comprehensive, dominating
Author(s): Hartshorn, William C.
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1967
The assignment given to me is to react as a music educator to the presentations given by Professors Northrop and Broudy. Each speaker has provided an experience rarely given to a music educator. Too seldom are those of us on the firing line of music education given the privilege of intellectual challenges of such depth, nor do most of us have time to initiate them and pursue them for ourselves.
Author(s): Cornog, William H.
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1967
The great Dutch historian Johan Huizinga published in the year 1938 an extraordinary book, Homno Ludens, A Study of the Play Element in Culture. In it he developed beautifully the thesis that an understanding of man's nature and culture is incomplete unless one sees man not only as homo sapiens, and homo faber, but also as homo ludens: Man the Thinker, and Man the Maker, but also Man the Player. Nothing is more clearly an act of Man the Player, in his verbal expression, than the making of poetry; and nothing more clearly an example of the play of the human mind than making music. The
Author(s): Tyler, Ralph W.
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1967
The purpose of the project on assessing the progress of education is to provide the intelligent lay-public with census-like data on the educational levels of important sectors of our population. This purpose is to give information to the public about where we are in education, what progress we are making and where our problems are. The National Assessment Program serves the same purpose as public health data serve when giving us a notion of what sectors of the population, for example, have higher incidents of heart disease or cancer. It is not to be mistaken for the task of developing means
Author(s): Brittain, W. Lambert
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1967
In the following pages an attempt has been made to glean from many recordings the essence of what Lowenfeld was saying. In some cases, the speech appears almost unchanged. In other cases, the theme has been put together from several of his talks so as to make a coherent whole. He may have made an important point while talking in Wisconsin whereas the illustration of this point was much more effectively explained while he was giving a speech in New York City. His more recent speeches were almost all concerned with the importance of creativity in education, but his asides were usually quite
Author(s): Rose, Hanna Toby
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1966
In recent years there has been a tremendous increase of activity and interest in the entire field of the arts and also a new awareness of the poor and disadvantaged in the midst of an affluent society. These two developments are having an enormous impact on our educational process but they have, for the most part, been largely separate in their influences.
Author(s): Center for Arts Exposure
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1966
The Center for Arts Exposure Program, made possible by a Title III Federal Grant, has as its major aim the building of a future audience for live quality art in the Manchester area. It is directed toward children in grades 1-6 in the primary schools, with the assumption that exposure to art will help in developing their imagination and ultimately contribute to education and to the overall life of the community.
Author(s): Smith, Ralph A.
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 1966
The Office of Education - University of Illinois Aesthetic Exemplar Project is devoted to seeking clues regarding the feasibility of what is called An Exemplar Approach to Aesthetic Education. The rationale for this conception of aesthetic education has been articulated in recent writings on curriculum theory and some of the approach's basic assumptions are implicit in a number of new arts and humanities programs currently being developed for elementary and secondary schooling. The first part of this report presents the rationale and general education goal of the project.