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Arts ProjectsThe Artful Thinking program helps students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning--in the arts, and across school subjects. Currently in use by teachers in grades K-8, the Artful Thinking program is a member of growing international network of K-12 programs, linked by the theme “Visible Thinking." Arts PROPEL: Integrating Teaching and Assessment was a five-year collaborative project focused on developing model programs that combine instruction and assessment in music, visual arts, and imaginative writing. ARTS SURVIVE was a three year national study investigating why some arts education partnerships between schools and professional artists and/or cultural institutions survive and others do not. It worked to provide a greater understanding of what survival means to arts education partnerships, as well as determining what is essential to build and sustain them. ArtWorks for Schools was a collaborative project with arts organizations and schools that focused on teaching high-level thinking in and through the arts. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum/Project Zero Educational Collaboration was established for the purpose of developing educational activities and curricula to help make the Museum's unique collections more accessible to schools and other populations. Learning in and from Museum Study Centers: The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) and Project Zero are conducting a one-year collaborative research project to investi-gate the nature of visitor learning at HUAM’s two study centers, the Agnes Mongan Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs and the Study Room of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Lincoln Center Institute Project: Curricular Frameworks in Aesthetic Education was an artist-in-residence program designed to expose students to the arts, and to immerse students and teachers in an intensive aesthetic education program. MoMA's Visual Thinking Curriculum Project was an investigation of the educational impact and potential of the Museum of Modern Art's Visual Thinking Curriculum. Project Co-Arts was a national study of community arts centers in economically disadvantaged communities that focused on education. The project developed a framework to help administrators and teacher/artists make thoughtful decisions regarding the provision of quality education. The project also worked to enable art centers and other educational institutions to document and assess their educational effectiveness. Project MUSE (Museums Uniting with Schools in Education) was a collaboration of researchers, museum educators, and classroom teachers focused on exploring the potential of art museums to serve as integral elements of education. The Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It is a study aiming to synthesize what is currently understood about the critical elements of high quality arts teaching and learning and to identify effective strategies for creating those experiences for school-age youth in diverse settings. REAP (Reviewing Education and the Arts Project) reviewed what can be learned from the massive number of studies about the effects of arts instruction (multi-arts, visual arts, music, drama, and dance) on cognition and learning in non-arts domains. Shakespeare & Company Research Study was a project which closely examined two components of a professional theater company's school-based educational programs. Studio Thinking Project is a study conducted in two high schools that take the arts seriously. In these schools, teachers are artists, students enter by audition in the visual arts, and students receive a minimum of ten hours per week of visual arts instruction. The project's purpose is to understand instruction in visual arts classes, both the instructors' goals and how instruction is carried out. Use the following links to see selected projects in many of Project Zero's research areas: Learning in Out-of-School Settings Projects Multiple Intelligences Projects |
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