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Professional Books about Literacy and the Arts
Educators, tutors, and parents will find these books useful for learning more about literacy and the arts. The books are listed in alphabetical order.
Authors of Pictures, Draughtsmen of Words
Ruth Hubbard Heinemann
1989
This text links art and literacy education.
The Arts and Human Development: A Psychological Study of the Artistic Process
Howard E. Gardner
Basic Books, 1994
This book, like others by this author of the theory of multiple intelligences, stresses the importance of the arts in academic education. Other related texts by Gardner include Art, Mind, and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity (1984) and Artful Scribbles (1989).
The Hundred Languages of Children : The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education
Carolyn P. Edwards (Editor)
Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1993
This classic book on the Reggio Emilia preschools of Italy explains how an arts-based curriculum lays the foundation for reading and writing.
The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art
David N. Perkins
J. Paul Getty Museum Publications, 1994
The author makes a link between arts education and the development of thinking strategies.
Art Works! Interdisciplinary Learning Powered by the Arts
Denise Wolf and Dana Balick (Editors)
Heinemann, 1999
Wolf and Balick believe that arts-based interdisciplinary teaching in the middle schools will lead to educational gains.
"You Gotta Be the Book": Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading With Adolescents
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
Teachers College Press, 1996
Wilhelm and Smith make the case that reluctant readers can be motivated by using process drama.
John Dewey and the Lessons of Art
Philip W. Jackson
Yale University Press, 2000
According to this text, Dewey's view of the arts to improve learning and literacy skills is even more valid today than in Dewey's time.
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