Foregrounds the importance of arts education to children's development and learning.

"A comprehensive look at how the arts (broadly conceived) can improve teaching, learning, and curriculum for all students, written in accessible language for no

"'Arts integration in education' is an insightful, even inspiring investigation into the enormous possibilities for change that are offered by the application o

This resource is written for classroom teachers, art education specialists, childcare workers, artists working in schools, parents who home-school their childre

Accessible and hands-on yet grounded in research, this book addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of integrating literacy instruction and the arts in gra