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Place-Based and Intergenerational Art Education

Description: This qualitative inquiry explored how art educators might broaden their views of place through critical encounters with art, local visual culture, and working with older artists. I combined place-based (PB) education and intergenerational (IG) learning as the focus of an art education curriculum writing initiative with in-service art educators within a museum setting to produce PBIG art education. This study engaged art educators in cooperative action research using a multi-modal approach, incl… more
Date: August 2017
Creator: Langdon, Elizabeth Ann
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Study of the Native Texas Clays Relative to Their Value for Pottery Making in the Public Schools

Description: The art of making pottery has long been recognized as a valuable educational activity, both for its cultural value and for the opportunity it presents for creative activity. However, the impression is prevalent among school teachers and administrators that the making of pottery requires the purchase of raw material as well as an expensive kiln. For this reason few schools have given pottery making a place in school activities. Experiments with Texas clays have shown conclusively that pottery ma… more
Date: August 1940
Creator: Hendershott, Cleo Hammett
Partner: UNT Libraries
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