The arts and academic achievement
Subtitle: what the evidence shows
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Arts; Study and teaching; Academic achievement; Cognition in children
Other titles: The Journal of aesthetic education.. v. 34, no. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2000)
Notes: Cover title.

Special issue of: The Journal of aesthetic education (Fall/Winter 2000)

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The arts in education, evaluating the evidence for a causal link / Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.