Arts As Meaning Makers: Integrating Literature And The Arts Throughout The Curriculum; Author: Cornett, Claudia E.; Author: Cornett; Paperback

Author: Cornett, Claudia E.; Author: Cornett
Paperback; Illustrations
456 pages
Published: October 2000
Pearson Higher Education
ISBN: 013792920X
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This comprehensive, introductory book shows teachers how to meaningfully integrate literature, art, drama, dance, and music throughout curricular areas by providing a basic arts knowledge base. The book covers clear reasons for integration, and the application of basic integration principles. Intended for undergraduate education majors or practicing classroom teachers new to the conceptof integrating the arts, the book's creative problem-solving process and integrated approach uses the arts as tools to learn. The only book on the market which clearly makes the case to integrate thearts on a daily basis, it summarizes the concepts and skills of five art forms and shows teachers how to plan and implement units and specific lessons which integrate at least one art form with a currDiscusses the benefits of, and offers educators strategies for, integrating the study of the arts across the curriculum. Specifically discusses the integration of literature, visual arts, drama, dance, and music into science, social studies, math, and reading/language arts curricula, presenting stor