EVENTS & MOVEMENTS

School Reform
After the National Commission on Excellence in education publishes, A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform in 1983, there is a push for national school reform to improve in the deficient areas of content, expectations, time, and teaching.
Source: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/index.html

National Assessment of Educational Policy (NAEP)
Created in 1969 as a mandated project of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the National Assessment of Education Policy (NAEP) is the sole ongoing national assessment of what American students know and can do in an assortment of academic subjects. The visual arts are reported on in the seventies, 1998, and will be reported on again in 2016.

Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE)
DBAE is a comprehensive approach to art education in which art is recognized as a discipline and is integrated into general education. Instruction is centered on works of art and is taught through the four disciplines of art: production, criticism, history, and aesthetics.

Getty Education Institute for the Arts
This program of the J. Paul Getty Trust has been backing the Discipline Based Art Education movement since 1983. For seven years it researches and develops DBAE after which it funds six regional institutes to educate school administrators, classroom teachers, and art teachers in DBAE methods.

Arts Infusion- Learning through the Arts
Teachers and administrators are working together to create integrated and coordinated school curricula in which art is infused into other subject areas in order to improve learning in all disciplines. By incorporating the fine arts into other academic subjects the student receives a complete education in which he/she gains confidence, preparation for the future, and problem solving skills while actively engaging in the subject matter.

Annenberg Challenge
Walter H. Annenberg’s $500 million “challenge to the nation” is announced on December 17, 1993. The Annenberg Foundation calls for school reform through the arts to improve education in rural and inner city schools, and to revitalize current reform efforts, provide unity to simultaneous efforts, and to inspire new ones.

Neo-DBAE
Neo Discipline Based Art Education is a post-modernist response to the modernist DBAE of the 1980’s. Neo-DBAE includes multicultural, non-traditional art forms, and qualitative forms of assessment. Art can be taught separately from other subject areas or can be integrated into them in order to improve student learning.

Visual Culture Art Education VCAE
Visual Culture Art Education (VCAE) is a critical pedagogy in which the art students are asked to question what they see and what it might mean in the context of the image’s history and local and global societies. The students gain awareness for aesthetics and social issues while having the freedom to create artworks that pertain to their own lives.