PAMELA HARRIS LAWTON, MARGARET A. WALKER, AND MELISSA GREEN

 

This comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of Community-Based Art Education encourages learners to make connections between art education in a classroom setting and its application in the community—with demonstrable examples of how the arts impact responsible citizenship.

 

Successfully execute CBAE in the pre-K–12 classroom and with adult learners, using a broad view toward intergenerational art learning. Includes vignettes, exemplars of practice, curriculum examples that incorporate the National Coalition of Core Arts Standards, and research frameworks for developing, implementing, and assessing CBAE projects.

 

Get how-tos on approaching a community, and sharing and exhibiting the experience within and outside the community. Copublished with Teachers College Press.

 

“I was fully engaged with this text… as I considered a fresh perspective [and] pointed advice concerning making plans based on the reality of time constraints.”
—Olivia Gude, Angela Gregory Paterakis, Professor and Chair of Art Education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

208 pgs. (2019) ISBN 978-0-807761-88-5