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Art and Cognition: Integrating the Visual Arts in the Curriculum
Arthur D. Efland Teachers College Press and the National Art Education Association, 2002, 200pp. ISBN 0-8077-4218-X
If educators choose to engage in the battle to position the arts in education as serious, intellectually rigorous academic pursuits, then Art and Cognition offers scholarly ammunition. The author traces the history of educational psychology in order to show that the arts were originally split off from headier disciplines such as mathematics and the sciences. Efland argues that the development of psychology as an empirical science contributed to a bias...