Edited by Elliot Eisner, Stanford University and Michael Day, Brigham Young University the Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education marks a milestone in the field of Art Education. Sponsored by the National Arts Education Association and assembled by an internationally known group of art collectors, this 36-chapter, 888-page handbook provides an overview of the remarkable process that has characterized this field in recent decades. Organized into six sections, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapdily emerging field: history, policy, learning, curriculum and instruction, assessment, and competing perspectives, Because the scholarly foundations of art education are relatively new and loosely coupled, this handbook provides researchers, students, and policy makers (both inside and oustide the field) an invaluable snapshot of its current boundaries and rapidly growing content. In a nutshell, it provides much needed definition and intellectual respectability to a field that as recently as 1960 was more firmly rooted in the world of arts and crafts than in scholarly research. For more info Order from the National Arts Education Association. FAX: 703-860-2960 PHONE: 1-800-299-8321 (8:30am to 4pm EST)

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