CHARLES WIEDER Art
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
Fear and Force Versus Education: A Study of the Effects of Coercion on Learning. Branden Press, 1978.
PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:
"Conceptual Issues." National Art Education Association Research Task Force, Houston, TX, 1995.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
With K. Sorensen. "The Limits of Linear Modes of Inquiry into Naturalistic Worldviews: A Case Study of Cherokee Culture." Journal of Social Theory and Art Education (1990).
"Learning Styles/Art Styles: Educating for Individuality Through Art." Holistic Education Review (Fall 1990).
"What the Current Education Reform Reports Have to Say about Arts and Humanities Education." Art Education (Spring 1990).
"Education and the Left-Brain/Right-Brain Model of Mind." Human Intelligence Newsletter 9 (1988).
"Children, Values, and Art." Aristos 4:1 (January 1988).
With M. A. Gary. "Seeing Eye to I: Perceptual Development and Sense of Self." Bulletin (National Art Education Association Social Theory Affiliate) 6 (Spring 1986).
"The Left-Brain/Right-Brain Model of Mind: Ancient Myth in Modern Garb." Visual Arts Research (Fall 1984).
"The Humanism of Herbert Read." Bulletin (NAEA Social Theory Affiliate) 4 (Spring 1984).
"Herbert Read on Education, Art, and Individual Liberty." Journal of Aesthetic Education (Fall 1983).
"Style: A Way of Seeing." Art Teacher (Fall 1977).
With B. Wilson & M. Wilson. "Iconoclasticism Challenged: A Correspondence of Child Art." Art Education (1977).
"Three Decades of Research on Child Art: A Survey and a Critique." Art Education (February 1977).
"The Nature and Value of Art (in One Elementary School)." Art Teacher (Winter 1975).
"Alternative Approaches to Problems in Art Education." Studies in Art Education (August 1975).
"Research Operationally Defined (for Art Teachers)." Florida Art Education Magazine (Fall 1970).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Series of drawings (with text). Connecticut Review (Spring 1993) and Thinking: The Journal for Philosophy for Children (Fall 1992).
"Alleged Artists' Rights Legislation Could Mean Censorship." Columbus Dispatch Op Education, September 6, 1978.
"The OSU Art Education Program: A Descriptive Review with an Eye Toward Development." The Arts (Ohio State University College of the Arts) 9 (September 1977).
"Different Art Teaching Styles and Some Elemental Teaching Competencies; A Critique: Competency and Art Education." Ohio State University Department of Art Education, 1977.
"Art Education." In A Model for the Preparation of Elementary School Teachers, Florida State University, 1969.
EXHIBITS/SHOWS/PERFORMANCES OF CREATIVE WORKS:
Relief sculpture, SCSU faculty exhibition in Artspace, New Haven, March—April, 1998
BOOK REVIEWS:
Postmodern Art Education: An Approach to Curriculum (by Efland, Freedman & Stuhr, Reston VA: Natl. Art Educ. Assoc., 1996), panel presentation at Natl. Art Educ. Assoc. conference, Chicago, April, 1998.
"D. Duke's Teaching: The Imperiled Profession" (essay review), in The Art Education Review of Books (Fall 1988).
Let's Get Lost in a Painting (series books 1 [Homer] and 2 [Hicks]), by E. Goldstein, in Art Education (September 1982).
Children's Drawings of Wrecked Cars: A Study in the Development of Form, doctoral dissertation by D. Pariser, in Review of Research in Visual Arts Education (Winter 1978) (essay review).
[Education] Interdisciplinary Curriculum, by T. Linehan, in Art Education (April 1977).
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, by Ocvirk, Bone, et al, in Art Education (February 1976).
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
Aesthetic Response – for Art Teachers (themselves) and their Students (and even Arts Administrators), Conn. Art Educ. Assoc., Waterbury CT, Oct. 1997; also presented at New England Art Educ. Assoc., Sturbridge MA, Nov. 1997.
"Drawing of Children Drawing." CSU Research Foundation Conference, October 1993.
"Toward Fixing All that's Wrong in School Art." Northeast Art Education Association, Hyannisport, MA, November 1991.
"Respecting Our Differences and Men on Feminism" (panel). Women's Studies Conference, October 1991.
"92 Learning/Art Styles." CSU Research Foundation Conference, April 1991.
With A. Morier and A. Underhill. "Aesthetic Response Styles." Art Education Association, October 1990.
"Art Education--The Field: Redefinition and Redirection." Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 1987; National Art Education Association, Boston, 1987.
"The 'Discipline-Based' Approach to Curriculum: A Critique, Multi-State." Art Education Conference, Kansas City, 1987.
"Aesthetics and Politics: Perilous Educational Alliance." NAEA, New Orleans, 1986.
"Humanistic Alternatives to a Uniform Mass System of Public Schooling: A Study of the Effects of Coercion and Vocationalism on Learning." Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice/Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Dayton, OH, 1985.
"A Look Back at the Wilsons-Wieder Debates on Child Art." National Symposium for Research on Art, University of Illinois/Champaign, 1984; NAEA Conference, Dallas, 1985.
"The Left-Brain/Right Brain Model of Mind." Madison University, February 1985.
With M. A. Gary. "Through Art to Story Character Development." International Reading Association, Southeast Region, Winston-Salem, 1984.
"The Humanism of Herbert Read and Herbert Read on Art, Education, and Individual Liberty." NAEA, Detroit, 1983.
"The Refinement of Individual Style Through Art." North Carolina Art Education Association, Reidsville, NC, 1982.
"The Left-Brain/Right-Brain Model of Mind: Ancient Myth in Modern Garb." NAEA, NY, 1982.
"The Refinement of Idiosyncratic Style and Toward Individualizing Instruction Through Art." NAEA, NY, 1980.
WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:
Chairperson, N.A.E.A Conceptual Issues Research Task Force subcommittee on Philosophy of Art Education – (Re-)defining Art/Education Terms. Progress report given at N.A.E.A. conference, Chicago, April, 1998.
"Assessment in Art." Milford Public Schools, Spring 1994.
"DBAE as Art Curriculum Sans Romance and Theory Sans Social Conscience." National Art Education Association, Baltimore, MD, 1993.
"Modernism in the Visual Arts" (panel). Institute for Learning in Retirement, Albertus Magnus College, October 1992.
"Child Art: Early Development of Individual Style." Memorial Library, North Haven, CT, November, 1990; Woodbridge Public Library, Woodbridge, CT, 1990.
"Careers in Art Education." Shelton High School, Shelton, CT, November 1990.
With K. Connors. "Origins of Feminism and the Future of Social Theory in Art Education." National Art Education Association, Kansas City, April 1990.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
Series of drawings for book manuscript illustrations, CSU Research Foundation grant, 1991
"Multi-Cultural Approach to Art History in Art Education," SCSU Faculty Development Grant, 1990
"The Relationship of Art Historical Styles and Children's Early Artistic and Educational Development," Connecticut State University, 1990
"The Diagnosis of Individual Learning Style Through Art," Appalachian State University Graduate School, 1984
With K. Marantz. "Clinical and Field-Based Experiences in Art Teacher Preparation," Ohio State Department of Education, 1976
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Student Individuality--Learning Styles; Critical Social Theory in Art/Education; Aesthetic Education
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Redefining the Field/Discipline/Practice of Art Education from the Bottom Against the Backdrop of Postmodern Social and Aesthetic Theory (with co-author Bernard Keilty), proposed chapter for Realworld Readings in art Education: Things your Professors never told you, submitted Dec. 1997
Notes on (Re-)Defining Art/Art Education Terms, for the N.A.E.A Conceptual Issues Research Task Force, for presentation at a Symposium scheduled in Madison, WI, Spring, 1999.
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT/COLLABORATION IN MY RESEARCH:
Bernard Keilty, SCSU Art Education graduate student, is co-author of the above proposal on "Redefining the Field/Discipline/Practice of Art Education," and has been my research assistant on the N.A.E.A. Conceptual Issues Research Task Force subcommittee noted above.
DISSERTATION TITLE:
Analysis of Conceptions of Child Art Style, 1940-1960
INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:
Stanford University, California