References
- Dr. Shinichi Suzuki of Japan developed this system of instruction on the “Mother Tongue Method.” He believes that inborn talent does not exist. Poor learning is a consequence of poor teaching. For further information, contact the Suzuki International Learning Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
- One such group is the Suzuki Chamber Orchestra of Chicago, composed of children from ages three to fourteen.
- Lowenfeld qualified this statement in his classic book: Viktor Lowenfeld and Lambert Brittain, Creative and Mental Growth, Toronto: The Macmillan Co., 1964. Quote taken from the fourth edition, pa. 172.
- These concerns are discussed in many writings in art education, including: “Evaluating Children's Art” by Elliot W. Eisner. In Elliot W. Eisner and David W. Ecker, Readings in Art Education, Waltham, Massachusetts: Blaisdell Publishing Co., 1966, pp. 384–388.
- This concern is discussed in: R. G. Collingwood, Principles of Art, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1938.
- Frederick Logan, in Growth of Art in American Schools, writes: “… obviously the ‘type forms’ are kind of ‘objective’ teaching for the drawing class … The drawing teachers hoped that the students who learned to recognize and to identify cylindrical, pyramidal, cubic, and other shapes in nature and in art forms, p. 89.
- Read The Necessity of Art by Ernst Fischer.
- “Eight Justifications for the Fine Arts in Education” as reported by Robert Saunders in Relating Art and Humanities to the Classroom.
- Cay Drachnik, “A Historical Relationship Between Art Therapy and Art Education and the Possibilities for Future Integration,” Art Education, November, 1976.
- Roger M. Williams, “Why Children Should Draw” in Saturday Review, September 3, 1977.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
Bibliography
- R. G. Collinwood, Principles of Art, Oxford: The Claredon Press, 1938.
- Cay Drachnik, “A Historical Relationship Between Art Therapy and Art Education and the Possibilities for Future Integration,” Art Education, November, 1976, pp. 16–19.
- Elliot W. Eisner and David W. Ecker, Readings in Art Education, Waltham, Massachusetts: Blaisdell Publishing Co., 1966.
- Ernest Fischer, The Necessity of Art, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books, 1964.
- Frederick M. Logan, Growth of Art in American Schools, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, 1955.
- Viktor Lowenfeld and W. Lambert Brittain, Creative and Mental Growth, 4th ed. Toronto: The Macmillan Co., 1964.
- Roger M. Williams, “Why Children Draw”, Saturday Review, September 3, 1977, pp. 11–16.
- Robert Saunders, Relating Art and Humanities to the Classroom, Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Co., 1977.