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The muses go to school : inspiring stories about the importance of arts in education / edited by Herbert Kohl and Tom Oppenheim.

Kohl, Herbert R. (Added Author). Oppenheim, Tom. (Added Author).
  • ISBN: 9781595585394
  • ISBN: 1595585397
  • Description: xxvii, 200 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012.

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  • 10 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).

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Contents: Preface : the necessity of art in public education / Herbert Kohl -- Introduction : the arts and social justice / Tom Oppenhiem -- "Tears in the dark" : the arts as a vehicle for the discovery of the self : Rosie Perez ; Michelle Fine -- "Communication from one's heart" : the arts and the development of self-discipline : Phylicia Rashad ; Lisa Delpit -- "An affair with one's soul" : the arts and the development of cultural identity : Frances Lucerna ; Bill Ayers -- "Good, hard work" : the arts, lifelong commitments, pleasures, and pains : Bill T. Jones ; Kevin Truitt -- "Teaching on the bandstand" : the intergenerational legacy of the arts : David Amram ; Gary Stager -- "Walking into the fire" : the arts as an integrative force in learning : Philip Seymour Hoffman ; Deborah Meier -- "I taste it when I look at it" : the importance of arts for those who learn differently : Whoopi Goldberg ; Diane Ravitch -- "The only thing that will save us from ourselves" : the arts, social engagement, and social transformation / Moisés Kaufman ; Steve Seidel -- "Enriching society" : the communal power of the arts : Mike Medavoy ; Colin Greer -- "Rebellions, breakthroughs, and secret gardens" : the arts and imagination : Maxine Greene ; Shirley Brice Heath -- Afterword / Robert Jackson -- A note to the reader.

Subject: Arts > Study and teaching.
Education > Aims and objectives.