Gilbert Clark

A Framework For Educating Artistically Talented Students Based on Feldman's and Clark and Zimmerman's Models

A framework for the education of artistically talented students is formulated through integration of Feldmans Universal to Unique Continuum and Clark and Zimmermans Naive to Sophisticated Art Content Model. Related aspects of educating artistically talented students are discussed relative to concepts about student, teacher, content, and environment as they relate to guiding theoretical bases of programs for these students.

Towards Establishing First Class, Unimpeachable Art Curricula Prior to Implementation.

In this paper, antecedent data, conditions existing prior to teaching and learning, are proposed as a focus for evaluation. Criteria of completeness, coherence, and appropriateness are described and exemplified as an art curriculum evaluation system. A modelfor curriculum completeness and coherence is offered as a basis for these internal criteria, and the external basis for appropriateness is described. Hypothetical instances of positive and negative examples of curriculum completeness, coherence, and appropriateness are offered as practical applications of the evaluation system.

At the Age of Six, I Gave Up a Magnificent Career as a Painter: Seventy Years of Research about Identifying Students with Superior Abilities in the Visual Arts.

It is more than forty years since De Saint-Exupery wrote The Little Prince. Finally, grown-ups are beginning to understand the needs of artistically talented students by identifying them and by establishing programs that encourage using pencils to draw, as an important educational goal, rather than only using them to solve arithmetic problems. For more than fifty years, however, education for gifted and talented students has overemphasized ’hard’ subject matters and academic programs and focused attention upon students whose abilities are academically and intellectually superior. One result has been to neglect the arts in the effort to build up the ’academic’ part of the curriculum. The attitude of the grown-ups in The Little Prince, who advised the child to discard his drawings and devote himself