Teach with confidence across all 5 art streams

This book combines a number of important purposes. To provide students with:

• an understanding of the place of the arts in society and in schools
• an introduction to the basic principles of each art form and how to teach it
• vivid pictures of how the arts actually work in real classroom situations, through case study examples
• suggestions for how to build and adapt on the case study examples in your own primary classrooms, and perhaps most important of all;
• the confidence to bring the arts into the classroom.

Grounded in theory and research, with links to teaching practice, Education in the Arts helps students apply what they are learning to new contexts, and encourages them to become reflective and mindful practitioners. Students can continue to use this book as they become practising teachers, drawing on how to implement the various arts practices in a school setting.

New to this Edition

• New Part Four – Arts and Community which includes new chapters:
• Chapter 16 - What can mindful educators learn from artists who work with children?
• Chapter 17 - The Arts and Teaching for Diversity.
• New cases studies across the book, with accompanying ‘beyond the case study’ section:
• Each chapter now includes one extended case study allowing for greater depth of description and analysis of the practice under review;
• ‘Beyond the case study’ draws out the strategies and approaches embedded in each case study and invites students and educators to explore how these can be applied in their own teaching contexts

Part One: Key Principles

1. Teaching with Art in Mind 
   John O’Toole, Mary Ann Hunter, Chris Sinclair and Neryl Jeanneret
2. The Arts, Creativity and Play
   John O’Toole
3. Learning in the Arts
   Neryl Jeanneret
4. Arts Education as Intercultural and Social Dialogue
   Kate Donelan
5. General Capabilities and Multiple Literacies
   John O’Toole
6. Teaching for the Aesthetic, Teaching as Aesthetic
   Christine Sinclair
7. Shower Singing and Other Essentials
   Julia Reid

Part Two: Teaching the Artforms

8. Dance: Art Embodied
   Jan Deans, Jeff Meiners, Sarah Young and Katrina Rank
9. Drama: Social Dreaming in the 21st Century
   Jane Bird, Kate Donelan and Christine Sinclair
10. Media Arts
    Michael Dezuanni
11. Music in the Primary Classroom
    Neryl Jeanneret, Jennifer Stevens-Ballenger, Sue Arney
12. Learning in and through the Visual Arts
    Robert Brown, Marnee Watkins and Gina Grant

Part three: integrating and applying the arts

13. Learning and Teaching through the Arts
    Pam Macintyre, Richard Sallis, Robert Brown and Paul Molyneux
14. Integrating the Arts
    David Kelman, Marnee Watkins, Jennifer Stevens-Ballenger and Christine Sinclair

Part Four: Arts and Community

15. Support and Partnerships for the Teacher
    Neryl Jeanneret, John O’Toole and Chris Sinclair
16. What Can Mindful Educators Learn from Artists who Work with Children?
    Mary Ann Hunter and Robert Brown
17. The Arts and Teaching for Diversity
    Jo Raphael and Mary Ann Hunter

Christine Sinclair is the Head of Drama Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne.

Neryl Jeanneret is the Head of Music Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne.

John O’Toole is Honorary Professorial Fellow of The University of Melbourne where he was Foundation Chair of Arts Education. He is also Honorary Professor of Drama Education and Applied Theatre at Griffith University.

Mary Ann Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Drama Education at the University of Tasmania.

The following resources are available for lecturers who prescribe Education in the Arts 3rd edition for their course:

• Additional case studies to use with students