01269nam a2200181 a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005805000290007610000280010524500610013326000620019430000250025650000190028152007020030052100070100265000430100965000350105220140310183407.0121018s19uu    xx            00    eng d  a9780807748343  aLB 1591.5.U57b.D38 2008  aDavis, Jessica Hoffmann  aWhy our schools need the arts /cJessica Hoffmann Davis.  aNew York, United States :bTeachers College Press,c2008.  aix, 150 p. :c23 cm.  aIncludes index  aThis inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy-one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subject, teach our kids. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of arts education, offers a set of principles and tools that will be invaluable to advocates already working hard to make the case and secure a strong place for the arts in education. She also reaches out to those who care deeply about education but have yet to consider what the arts uniquely provide. This book is for anyone willing to brave a new terrain in which the arts are finally embraced without apology.  aMA  aArtxStudy and teachingxUnited States  aArt and societyxUnited States