How do the Arts support Literacy and Cognitive Development?
The sources listed below address this question: • Efland A. (2002) Art and Cognition. New York: Teachers College Press • Falk, John H. and Dierking, Lynn D. (2000) Learning from Museums. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press • Feldman E. (1972) Varieties of Visual Experience: Art as Image and Idea. New York, Prentice Hall • Gardner, H. (1973) The Arts and Human Development. New York: John Wiley • Arts Edge:www.artsed “www.artsedge.dca.wa.gov.au/7_2_literacy.asp Resources on visual literacy and visual arts education • The Arts Literacy Project at Brown University www.artslit.org/home.html ArtsLit gathers a community of artists, teachers, youth, college students, and professors to collaboratively create innovative approaches to literacy development through the arts. • The California Arts Project http://csmp.ucop.edu/tcap/ Instructional strategies to support visual and performing arts • ERIC Digest: Literacy Instruction Through Communicative and Visual Arts http://reading.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d
