The Value of Drawing Instruction in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula

By applying philosophical and historical perspectives to drawing instruction, this volume demonstrates how diverse teaching methods contribute to cognitive and holistic development applicable within and beyond the visual arts.

Offering a new perspective on the art and science of drawing, this text reveals the often-unrecognized benefits that drawing can have on the human mind, and thus argues for the importance of drawing instruction despite, and even due to contemporary digitalization. Given the predominance of visual information and digital media, visual thinking in and through drawing may be an essential skill for the future. As such, the book counters recent declines in drawing instruction to propose five Paradigms for teaching drawing ¿ as design, as seeing, as experience and experiment, as expression, and as a visual language ¿ with exemplary curricula for pre-K12 art and general education, pre-professional programs across the visual arts, and continuing education