Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education
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- 134,99 €
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- 134,99 €
Publisher Description
The Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education marks a milestone in the field of art education. Sponsored by the National Art Education Association and assembled by an internationally known group of art educators, this 36-chapter handbook provides an overview of the remarkable progress that has characterized this field in recent decades. Organized into six sections, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly emerging field: history, policy, learning, curriculum and instruction, assessment, and competing perspectives. Because the scholarly foundations of art education are relatively new and loosely coupled, this handbook provides researchers, students, and policymakers (both inside and outside the field) an invaluable snapshot of its current boundaries and rapidly growing content. In a nutshell, it provides much needed definition and intellectual respectability to a field that as recently as 1960 was more firmly rooted in the world of arts and crafts than in scholarly research.
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The differences between the crowded losers in the Somerset housing estate of Catcombe Mead and the aging population of the farm village of Old Catcombe propel this middling crime novel from McLoughlin (Coincidence). When vicar Tim Baker tries to bridge the gulf between the two, he receives a fatal beating from a group of teenage thugs led by Kevin Miller. Det. Chief Insp. Rachel Moody and her partner, Sgt. Jack Reid, find the estate residents unwilling to admit to seeing anything: not Kevin's mother, Donna, whose arrival ended the beating; not Alice Bates, who saw everything that went on from behind her curtains; not retired doctor Peter Henson or his wife, Jean. A lustful relationship between farm boy Mark Pearson and Kevin's 15-year-old stepsister, Jess, offers a wobbly link between estate and village. More deaths follow before McLoughlin wraps things up with more than one unconvincing resolution.