TheHandbook of Research and Policy in Art Educationmarks a milestone in the field of art education. Sponsored by the National Art Education Association and assembled by an internationally known group of art educators, this 36-chapter handbook provides an overview of the remarkable progress that has characterized this field in recent decades. Organized into six sections, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly 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 policymakers (both inside and outside 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.

Patricia Amburgy, Associate Professor of Art Education at The Pennsylvania State University Terry Barrett, Professor of Art Education, The Ohio State University H. Gene Blocker, Philosophy, Professor Emeritus, Ohio University Paul E. Bolin, Senior Lecturer, Art Education Program, The University of Texas at Austin Doug Boughton, Professor of Art and Education, School of Art, Northern Illinois University Judith M. Burton, Professor and Director, Programs in Art and Art Education, Teachers College Columbia University Graeme Chalmers, Professor of Art Education in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia; Faculty of Education's David See-Chai Lam Chair in Multicultural Education Michael D. Day, Professor, Department of Visual Arts, Brigham Young University Stephen Mark Dobbs, Executive Vice President, The Bernard Osher Foundation, San Francisco; Executive Director, The Taube Foundation, Belmont; and, Adjunct Professor of Humanities, San Francisco State University Arthur Efland, Professor Emeritus of Art Education, The Ohio State University Elliot W. Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art, Stanford University Mary Erickson, Professor of Art, in the School of Art, in the Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University Kerry Freedman, Professor of Art and Education, School of Art, Northern Illinois University Norman Freeman, Professor of Cognitive Development, University of Bristol, UK Lynn Galbraith, Associate Professor of Art, University of Arizona Constance Bumgarner Gee, Associate Professor, Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University Claire Golomb, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Boston Kit Grauer, Associate Professor of Art Education, University of British Columbia Lois Hetland, Research Associate, Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Samuel Hope, Executive Director, National Association of Schools of Art and Design Anna M. Kindler, Professor and Dean School of Creative Arts Sciences and Technology The Hong Kong Institute of Education, and Professor, Department of Curriculum Studies University of British Columbia (on leave) E. Louis Lankford, Des Lee Foundation Endowed Professor in Art Education, University of Missouri-Saint Louis and The Saint Louis Art Museum John Matthews, Professor, Visual & Performing Arts, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Carol Myford, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Focus in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics and Assessment, University of Illinois at Chicago David Pariser, Professor of Art Education, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University Michael Parsons, Professor of Art Education, The Ohio State University Hilary Persky, NAEP Program Administrator, Educational Testing Service, National Assessment of Educational Progress F. Robert Sabol, Chair of Art Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Kelly Scheffer, Director of Education and Outreach, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Alice Sims-Gunzenhauser, Assessment Specialist, Arts and Languages Group, Assessment Development Division, Educational Testing Service Ralph A. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Cultural and Educational Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lissa Soep, Lecturer in Education, University of California, Berkeley Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Associate Professor of Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University Mary Stokrocki, Mary Stokrocki, Professor of Art Education, Herberber College of Fine Arts, Department of Art, Arizona State University Patricia Stuhr, Professor and Chair The Department of Art Education, The Ohio State University Graeme Sullivan, Associate Professor of Art Education, Department of Arts and Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University Frances Thurber, Edwin Clark Professor, Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University of Nebraska at Omaha John Howell White, Chair and Professor of Art Education, Department of Art Education and Crafts, Kutztown University Brent Wilson, Professor of Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology, Boston College; Senior Research Associate, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education Enid Zimmerman, Professor and Coordinator of Art Education and Gifted and Talented Education Programs, Curriculum and Instruction Department, Indiana University School of Education