-
National Education Association
The National Education Association (NEA) is created. Their mission is "to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States." -
Massachusetts Normal School
The Massachusetts Normal art school opened. The school's original goal is to prepare teachers in drawing instruction. The Massachusetts Normal School is now the Massachusetts College of Art -
John Dewey
John Dewey believes that children should grow as individuals and experiment with natural talent. He writes a book called Art as Experiencein which Dewey believes every person is capable of being an artist, living an artful life of social interaction that benefits and thereby beautifies the world. -
James Hall
"With Brush and Pencil" written by James Hall, explained that art teaching should promote creativity and self expression. It should encourage students to see and create beauty opposed to what earlier art programs did, which limited children's imaginations. -
-
Progressive Education Association
The Progressive Education Association is founded. Notable members include John Dewey, Margaret Naumburg, Jane Addams, William Kilpatrick, and Francis Parker. -
Margaret Mathias
Margaret E. Mathias writes a book titled, "The Beginnings of Art in the Public Schools". The book discusses issues important to art education in kindergarten, first and second grade. The book is the first well-known book on art education. -
William G. Whitford
William G. Whitford, a professor of art education at the University of Chicago and author of the book titled "An Introduction to Art Education" developed a chart that showed a connection between the fine arts and the industrial arts -
-
Arts and Activities Magazine
Arts & Activities magazine begins publishing quality visual arts lessons. -
-
Viktor Lowenfeld
Wrote Creative and Mental Growth--a landmark book in art education that identified specific stages of artistic development. Lowenfeld believed that people pass through defined stages of artistic development -
National Art Education Association is founded
TheNational Art Education Association was founded with the merger of the Western, Pacific, Southeastern, and Eastern Region Art Associations, plus the art department of the National Education Association (NEA). -
Bloom's Taxonomy
Benjamin Bloom collaborated with others to create a framework for categorizing educational goals. It has since been revised in 2001 with re-ordered and renamed categories. -
NDEA
The National Defense Education Act, NDEA, is passed by Congress and heavily supported by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The act emphasizes concentration on math and science. The result is a drastic decline in the emphasis placed on art education. -
Rhoda Kellogg
After analyzing and collecting a million pieces of children's artwork, Rhoda Kellogg writes the book "Analyzing Children's Art" in which she classifies common forms in children's art from infancy to age 8. -
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is founded with the mission of wanting to expose all Americans to art. Theater, dance, critiques, interviews with artists and other art centered happenings have been shown on public television as a result of NEA. -
Laura Chapman
Laura Chapman writes a book entitled "Instant Art, Instant Culture"that comes to be considered the book of the century in art education. -
Discipline Based Art Education
W. Dwaine Greer set forth the principles of Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE) in an National Art Education Association research journal. -
Discover Art Textbook Series
The Discover Art textbook series is written by Laura Chapman and published by Davis Publications. It is one of the earliest textbooks used for elementary art education. -
Multiculturalism
Art teachers are encouraged to promote and frame art curricula in context of different cultures. One leader in this field of [multiculturalism (http://www.nameorg.org/definitions_of_multicultural_e.php) is James Banks
Art teachers dramatically shift their focus to include lessons from a diverse range of cultures and cultures around the world. -
-
Visual Thinking Strategies
Visual Understanding in Education (VUE), a nonprofit organization, was formed. VUE’s mission is to test and implement Visual Thinking Strategies
VTS transforms the way students think and learn. Based in theory and research, this program uses skilled facilitation of visual art discussions to significantly increase student engagement, performance, and enjoyment of learning. -
Visual Culture
Art educators begin to use the term Visual Culture to describe their central point of study. -
Teaching for Artistic Behavior
Teaching for Artistic Behavior
In a TAB studio students are expected to do the work of artists, directing their own learning. They practice coming up with their own art problems to solve, asking questions and seeing possibilities in the world around them. Students learn to persevere through difficulties as well as to trust themselves and their own judgment while simultaneously learning to be self-directed, organized, and to manage their time. -
Elliot Eisner
Elliot Eisnerpresents nine cognitive development attributes he believes make the case for including the arts in the core curriculum. These are among the essential skills an individual must acquire in order to be an educated and functioning adult in society and are learned through the serious study of an arts discipline.
Eisner was an advocate for the arts in public education.. -
Depth of Knowledge
A conceptual framework for higher order thinking skills first presented by Norman Webb. DOK is typically depicted in a wheel format and is frequently use as an educational tool. -
Grade Level Expectations
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for the State of Missouri publishes Visual Arts Grade Level Expectations organized in five different strands: Product/Performance, Elements and Principles, Artistic Perceptions, Interdisciplinary Connections, Historical and Cultural Contexts. The Missouri standards are aligned with the National Visual Arts Standards established in 1994. -
National Core Arts Standards
The National Core Arts Standards are published through the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS). The standards are organized by discipline: Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts.
One member of the 12 person writing team was art educator Marilyn Stewartfrom Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.
