IMPORTANT FIGURES
Kathryn Bloom
Kathryn Bloom is acknowledged as a leader in the Arts-in-Education movement. She accepts the position as head of the Arts in Education Program of the JDR 3rd Fund and remains in this position until the fund is terminated in 1979.
D. Jack Davis
D. Jack Davis edits the NAEA publication, Behavioral Emphasis in Art Education (1969). This publication looks at the development of the movement toward accountability in art education and provides sample objectives that can be used in teaching art, curriculum development, and art instruction evaluation (Efland, 1990).
Edmund B. Feldman
Edmund Feldman is a significant figure in the development of a systemic method of understanding the arts as a form of social practice.
Maxine Greene
Maxine Greene is a teacher, an educational philosopher, a lecturer, and the founder and director of the Center for Social Imagination, the Arts and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She explores art and its relationship to educational philosophies in several books including, Teacher as Stranger: Educational Philosophy in the Modern Age (1973), and Landscapes of Learning (1978).
LeiLani Lattin-Duke
LeiLani Lattin-Duke serves for seventeen years as founding director of the Getty Education Institute for the Arts. Under her leadership, the Institute begins a reform effort in arts education to transform the way art is taught in public schools. Among its many projects the Institute funds regional centers where more than 1,000 teachers from 400 districts learn to integrate the arts into existing school curricula. After leaving the Getty Institute, Duke serves as Chairman of the American Crafts Council where she continues to promote the arts at a national level.
David Rockefeller, Jr.
David Rockefeller, Jr. chairs the Arts, Education and Americans Panel from 1974 to 1977. The organization is a direct outgrowth of the American Council for the Arts in Education (ACAE). Established in 1972 the ACAE is designed to promote the arts as an integral part of school curricula at all levels of education. Rockefeller forms the advocacy group, The Arts, Education, and Americans, Inc. In 1979, this group establishes the National Advocacy Program for Arts in Education.