The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic “right-brain” thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that’s already here.
Arts Education/Youth
Acts of Achievement; The Role of Performing Arts Centers in Education
Acts of Achievement: The Role of Performing Art Centers in Education, a 168-page publication, provides the first study of K-12 education programs offered by performing arts centers nationwide, and showcases 74 performing art center institutions, large and small, partnering with their local schools.
Performing arts centers, many for the first time, are expanding their missions to provide arts education for nearby schools, at the request of their communities. In many cases, artist residencies and other educational outreach projects represent the only arts programs available in schools.
High Quality Education in the Arts: A Handbook for Parents
A handbook for parents in Pennsylvania to understand the Pennsylvania Standards for the Arts and Humanities — similar to the Visual and Performing Arts Standards in the California Department of Education. Useful for parents to understand the importance of ongoing, sequential arts education for their children, and to support arts education in their local schools.
The Impact of Music on Childhood and Adolescent Achievement
The study examines the association between music involvement and academic achievement in both childhood and adolescence using three measures of music participation: in school, outside of school, and parental involvement in the form of concert attendance. See full PDF text.
BOOK: Strong Arts, Strong Schools: the Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling
At a time when Americans are increasingly concerned with finding jobs and economic stability, supporting families, and surviving in the global economy, many consider the arts to be a luxury, a frivolous distraction which entices students away from real learning. In Strong Arts, Strong Schools, Charles Fowler argues that, far from a luxury, the arts are a vitally important part of our society and our schools.
More details on the book are available on the Oxford University Press site, and portions of the book are available from Google Books. The late Charles Fowler was a noted music educator and arts activist, and the author of numerous books and articles, including Can We Rescue the Arts for America’s Children? and Music! Its Role and Importance in Our Lives. He served as editor of Music Educators Journal from 1965 through 1971 and as education editor of Musical America magazine from 1974 through 1989.
BOOK: The Arts and the Creation of Mind
Recipient of the 2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Learning in and through the arts can develop complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. Offering a rich array of examples, he describes different approaches to the teaching of the arts and shows how these refine forms of thinking that are valuable in dealing with our daily life. Information on the Yale University Press website, and portions available online through Google Books.
