Title: The arts and academic achievement : what the evidence shows.
Authors: Hetland, Lois, 1953-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Arts Study and teaching; Academic achievement; Cognition in children.
Contents: The arts in education, evaluating the evidence for a causal link / Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland -- Arts-rich educational environments: Mute those claims, no evidence (yet) for a causal link between arts study and academic achivement / Ellen Winner and Monica Cooper. SAT scores of students who study the arts, what we can and cannot conclude about the association / Kathryn Vaughn and Ellen Winner. Does studying the arts engender creative thinking? Evidence for near but not far transfer / Erik Moga, Kristin Burger, Lois Hetland, and Ellen Winner -- Music: Listening to music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning, evidence for the "Mozart effect" / Lois Hetland. Music and mathematics, modest support for the oft-claimed relationship / Kathryn Vaughn. Can music be used to teach reading? / Ron Butzlaff. Learning to make music enhances spatial reasoning / Lois Hetland -- Drama, visual art, and dance: Strengthening verbal skills through the use of classroom drama, a clear link / Ann Podlozny. Instruction in visual art, can it help children learn to read? / Kristin Burger and Ellen Winner. Teaching cognitive skill through dance, evidence for near but not far transfer / Mia Keinänen, Lois Hetland, and Ellen Winner.