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Art and Education in Plato: The Praise Beneath the Criticisms in the Republic

The arguments of Plato’s Republic against the value of art for education obliquely indicate the potential value of art for education.

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Jimmie Durham’s Self-Portrait: “As Large as Life, and Twice as Natural!”

This paper concerns the troublesome concept of Native American racial authenticity as mediated by gender and as revealed in Durham's 1986 mixed-media sculpture.

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Art for ALL Children: Authentic Inclusive Art Experiences

ALL children have the right to authentic art experiences, to make their own mark, in their own way, using their own ideas, with accessible tools/equipment/environment, whatever their challenges may be

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Klaus Heymann Auf Naxos: Cheap Price but Quality Music! - A Case Study of a Successful Western Classical Music Company Founded in Hong Kong

A case study of a successful western classical music company founded in Hong Kong.

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Art as Meaning of Confidence: Bridging the Gap between Child Art and Adult Art

Learn how art teachers can bridge the gap between child art and adult art, thereby developing confidence and acceptance of their own art expression.

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REdGENERATION: Art, Enterprise, Local Knowledge and the Curriculum

The paper describes a process of arts intervention in the school curriculum that drives enterprise development through action learning sets, against the social backdrop of urban renewal.

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Exploiting Social Networks to Teach the Art of Critique

Online social networks are ubiquitous phenomena. This paper presents one educator’s efforts to refine his student’s skills in talking and writing about art through the integration of online social networks.

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Transcultural Transformation: The Object as Hermeneutic Text

This paper investigates the sculpture of Jan van der Merwe and Francois du Plessis as metaphors for transformation, texts which address the notion of the ‘between’ and the ‘other’.

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Illuminating the Word: Visualisation of Poetic Experiences Through Filmmaking

The process of writing visionary poetry is critically explored through making films.

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An Art Pedagogy for a Changing Art world

The paper proposes an art pedagogy based upon an original criterion: the quality of students' artwork might be assessed by the degree of balance between 'conceptual intrigue' and 'perceptual intrigue'.

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