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About This Book
The Aesthetic Imperative: Relevance and Responsibility in Arts Education is a collection of papers that covers various concerns in assessment in the context of arts education. In the first chapters, the text examines the predicament of the arts. The next two chapters relate assessment in the context of esthetic education and evaluation in the arts. Chapter 4 talks about the assessment of esthetic developments in the visual mode. The fifth chapter details the importance of evaluating the quality of the test itself, while the sixth chapter covers the conflict between schools and art education. In Chapter 7, the book talks about treating English as an art. The eighth chapter discusses the relevance of art in education, while the ninth chapter provides a conclusive discussion on art education. The text will be of great interest to readers who are concerned with the status of art as part of a school curriculum.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- The Aesthetic Imperative Relevance and Responsibility in Arts Education
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Series
- Preface
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Hard Core: The Predicament of the Arts
- Chapter 2. Assessment and Aesthetic Education
- Chapter 3. Assessment and Evaluation in the Arts
- Chapter 4. The Assessment of Aesthetic Development in the Visual Mode
- Chapter 5. To Examine the Examination
- Chapter 6. Education and the Arts Are Schools the Enemy?
- Chapter 7. The Reconstruction of English as Art
- Chapter 8. The Relevance of Art in Education
- Chapter 9. You are the Music
- Author Index
- Subject Index