Research on the Value of Arts
in Education and Arts in Public Policy
Page Contents
General
Resources and
Research Orgs.
Arts Journal
Issues Archive
This resource offers links to hundreds of stories itemized by arts
"issue". It is a very valuable resource for those looking at the
state of the various arts.
Culturelink
Network Research Projects
This extensive collection of resources in this Croatia-based site, is
mostly concerned with cultural policy issues in Europe. 
Economic Impact Studies
An Artslynx Resource. This is an extensive set of links to studies of the
economic impact of the arts. The studies are from all over the US and the
world.
Center for Arts and Culture
The Center for Arts and Culture is an independent research
organization providing analysis and promoting dialogue on issues affecting our
cultural life. The Center gathers and evaluates data, publishes books and
reports, and supplies information for all those concerned with art, culture
and society. Their collection of bibliographic citations on cultural research
and public policy is very extensive. Other vast directories are
presented online. A number of their research reports are available for
download and provide great ammunition for those interested in building public
support for the arts.
Centre
for Cultural Policy Research -
University of Glasgow.
These web pages also offer an extensive
library of research materials.
The
Community Arts Network
The Community Arts Network (CAN) project promotes
information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of
community-based arts, that is, art made as a voice and a force within a
specific community of place, spirit or tradition. This website includes
research resources and directories, including The Community Arts
Training (CAT) Directory - a listing of trainers and training services in
community-based artmaking throughout the U.S.
This is a very informative website.
Culturework
Billed as "A Periodic Broadside for
Arts and Culture Workers", this online publication from the Institute for
Community Arts Studies, Arts & Administration Program at the University of
Oregon offers a plethora of articles and useful information for online
reading.
Feral Arts
Feral Arts has developed its own approach to community
cultural development. Working in visual arts, video and new media the
organization takes a long term approach to investigating and developing
responses to key cultural issues. From 1993 to1998 Feral Arts main focus was
the relationship between marginal young people and public places. Outcomes
from this body of work (videos, music, reports, publications) were bought
together in CD-rom form and analyzed in "They Shoot
Ferals Don't They?"
National Arts
Journalism Program at Columbia University
The NAJP offers three major studies online: One involves how
the arts are reported in US newspapers. This is a very detailed study from
1999. "Television and the Arts" similarly profiles cultural
reporting on the major TV networks. "The Architecture Critic"
tracks the arena of architectural criticism in American newspapers. All of
these studies are fully readable online. This is a great resource and service.
National Campaign
for the Arts
British based arts lobbying organization. This website is
quite extensive and offers a plethora of research on the economic and social
impact on the arts. An excellent advocacy resource.
State of
Dance
A compendium of links to stories presented in The Arts Journal over the
last several years. Quite a few stories are linked but a number of links are
now out of date. This is a depressing read with the financial woes ever
present in the dance community.
University of
Massachusetts, Arts Extension Service
AES is a national, nonprofit arts service organization, a
program. The agency strives to achieve access to and integration of the arts
in communities through continuing education for artists, arts organizations
and community leaders. The website offers a number of research oriented online
resources.
Research on the value of
Public Arts Programs
Cultural
Economics: Collected Works of Harry Hillman Chartrand
This site includes links to quite a few studies on a variety of related
topics.
The
Economic Impact of the Arts
This is a web link library leading to all known online
studies of the economic impact of the arts. The listing from Arts on the Line
is itemized by geographic area.
Public
Art Index Essays and Articles on Public Art
This resource, Compiled by:- David Harding, of
Scotland, consists of "An annotated bibliography of 131 magazine
articles, published between 1969 and 1994, on Public Art and related
themes."
The Value of Arts
Education Programs
Arts
Education Research References
This page, from Public Television offers a nice bibliography of books
dealing with research on the value of arts education.
ArtFul Minds
Interactive web site that provides educators with the resources needed to
build a bridge to the learning environments of the 21st century. Prospective
and practicing teachers will find theoretical information and practical
applications about arts education, brain research, and technology use and
integration. The site includes many link libraries as well as bibliographies
of research resources.
Arts in Education
Research Studies - Arts Education Partnership
This is a VERY valuable site for those interested in seeing
strong art education programs in their local schools. Scores of studies and
documents are presented. In some cases these are abstracts, but in many or
most cases, the full documents are available for free (Thank you AEP). Of
course even more access is available for those who choose to join the
organization.
Great research website.
Art
As Healer "How art therapy helps reach the real kid behind the mask"
Article from The National School Boards
Association By Jo Anna Natale. The article offers a case study of how art
therapy is used successfully in the public schools.
The
Arts and Human Development
Barnes and Noble web page on the book: The Arts and
Human Development. "Artists, psychologists, and teachers will find it
most interesting and worthwhile. "The presentation is scholarly, and
though not pedantic, it calls for considerable application,"
(Library Journal 1/15/74).
Arts
Integration: Semiotic Transmediation in the Classroom
by J. David Betts, Ph.D., and others. - This study describes
two years of research with the Arts Integration Program (AIP) of the Tucson
Pima Arts Council, Tucson, AZ. This is an unabridged copy of the study
report and not just an excerpt. It is helpful to have such research accessible
on the internet.
ARTSEDGE
The National Arts and Education Information Network
ARTSEDGE was established and continues its development under a cooperative
agreement between the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the
National Endowment for the Arts (with additional support from the U.S.
Department of Education). Great website, chock full of valuable arts education
resources
Association for the Advancement
of Arts Education
This is a very active organization with a great, and useful website chock
full of features including a great collection of arts education
research materials.
Champions
of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning -
This extensive report includes a compilation of seven major
studies that provide new evidence of enhanced learning and achievement when
students are involved in a variety of arts experiences.
The
Coming Up Taller Report
Produced by The President's Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities, with Americans for the Arts, describes how local artists and
educators help turn around the lives of young people and identifies the common
characteristics of effective arts and humanities programs. Program Profiles
describe over 200 after-school, weekend and summer programs contained within
the Coming Up Taller report. Download the
full report.
An
Intelligence View of Music Education, by Dr. Arthur Harvey, University
of Hawaii (Manoa)
This 1997 article gives a feeling for the state of the art in
research into the link between music and education and intelligence. Many
studies are cited.
International
Journal of Education and the Arts - Abstracts of Articles
This resource includes scores of abstracts of a wide variety
of research projects. This is a very valuable resource that also includes
information on subscribing to the journal itself.
Music
Education National Conference: "Music Education Facts and Figures"
This page makes the case for the value of music education in
the schools. Numerous studies are cited specifically.
Northwest
Education Magazine, Special Issue: Arts Education, Basic to Learning
This special issue offers eleven articles, accessible online, profiling the
value of arts education in the schools.
Who's Dancin' Now
This is a wonderful site offered by PBS. It includes a wide array of
accessible resources on the role of arts education in society along with
resources for citizens wishing to strengthen this role in their own
communities.
Wolf Trap
Education Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts
The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts,
a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant
from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. The goal of the Institute is to train early childhood professionals
in the use of performing arts techniques which help young children learn basic
academic concepts (colors, shapes and numbers, for example) as well as life
skills (hand-washing, sharing and problem-solving). This site provides
resources and/or links to activities as well as
research information.
Research on Arts and Healing
Alternative
Therapies in Health and Medicine
Peer-reviewed journal for sharing information concerning the
practical use of alternative therapies in preventing and treating disease,
healing illness, and promoting health. The Journal publishes a variety of
disciplined inquiry methods, including high-quality scientific research. Many
articles deal with research into and methods of arts therapies. This website
offers extensive indexing of the articles but without any of the actual
article text, only subscription information.
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Art Therapy Books & Research Resources From Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Scores of books and research oriented publications are
featured in this web directory
Effects
of Writing About Stressful Experiences on Symptom Reduction in Patients With
Asthma or Rheumatoid Arthritis
This complete text article from The Journal of the American Medical
Association profiles a study which purports to show a direct link between the
act of writing and medical outcomes. It makes for interesting reading.
Music
Therapy Books & Research Resources From Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Titles cover work with a range of client groups, from a
range of theoretical perspectives, including work with people with learning
disabilities, and with people suffering loss. Music therapy is also covered in
titles on the interdisciplinary arts therapies page, and its use in forensic
settings in books in the Forensic Focus series. Many valuable resources are
profiled
here.
Interdisciplinary
Arts Therapies home page From Jessica Kingsley Publishers
This page describes books that cover a particular area of
work from the point of view of several of the arts therapies - such as eating
disorders, and conflict - and also the newest part of our arts therapies list
which looks at the theory and practice of the arts therapies as a whole. Lots
of research resources are presented
here
Research on Issues of
Arts Accessibility
Access
Expressed
From Very Special Arts Mass., this web page offers a series
of fascinating articles about the state of access to the arts. The articles
also feature Artist Spotlight Interviews and book reviews, etc. The collection
of articles is very extensive and covers a wide variety of
disciplines.
Research on Arts Therapy
Artforce 1
International Union for Art Education Research, Art Therapy
Research, and Studio Arts Research in the Visual Arts. This site includes
numerous discussion forums as well as journal articles, artwork, etc. This is
an attractive and useful web page.
