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Failure Is Not An Option: A Look At The Dropout Crisis In America, Aida Mogos May 2010

Failure Is Not An Option: A Look At The Dropout Crisis In America, Aida Mogos

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Art Education At The Turn Of The Tide: The Utility Of Narrative In Curriculum-Making And Education Research, James Haywood Rolling Jan 2010

Art Education At The Turn Of The Tide: The Utility Of Narrative In Curriculum-Making And Education Research, James Haywood Rolling

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This article relates a story of art education advocacy in the midst of a bureaucracy that misunderstood the purpose of art education at the launch of a new elementary school. It further argues that in 2010, art education continues to be practiced in the throes of a scientific knowledge paradigm that misunderstands the greater potential of the arts in education, imposing a ceiling ill-fitted for arts education practices and arts-based research. The author surmises some of the possibilities when the imposed ceiling is removed and we rethink art education, concluding with several schematic counter-discourses that lay out an art classroom …