Arts & Aesthetics

The MUSE BOOK and Guide

The MUSE BOOK documents the work of Project MUSE and presents the background, development, and uses of MUSE learning tools and educational approaches, with comments from collaborating school and museum educators. The MUSE Guide, a training manual for using MUSE tools, accompanies the report.

Another Safe Haven: Portraits of Boulevard Arts Center Then and Now

This work documents the struggle and effectiveness over time of this Chicago center. 1996. 

Arts PROPEL: A Handbook for Imaginative Writing

In the Arts PROPEL approach to instruction and assessment, students write poems, and tackle other real-life projects as the starting point for exploring the works of practicing artists. Prepared by Project Zero and the Educational Testing Service with the help of teachers and administrators from the Pittsburgh Public Schools. The Arts PROPEL handbooks, An Introductory Handbook, A Handbook for Imaginative Writing, A Handbook for Music, and A Handbook for Visual Arts, offer guidelines and models for creating a project-based curriculum and using portfolios to assess student work in the arts.

Arts PROPEL: A Handbook for Music

In the Arts PROPEL approach to instruction and assessment, students write poems, and tackle other real-life projects as the starting point for exploring the works of practicing artists.

The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art

In this unique contribution to the literature of arts education, David Perkins explains why looking at art requires thinking and presents an argument for the value of looking at art as a means to cultivate thinking dispositions. Drawing on research in cognition, he explains why art is uniquely qualified to support habits of reflective thinking. ISBN: 978-0892362745