Research Guides: Intermediate Senior Visual Arts: Journals

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Open Access Art Education Journals

Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education Free Humanities Journals
Digital Culture and Education Directory of Open Access Journals
International Journal of Education and the Arts Dr. Rena Upitis, Faculty of Education, Queen's University, member, Advisory Board
School Arts 2006 to the present
Visual Culture and Gender Directory of Open Access Journals

Journals for Art Teachers

Art Education Published By: National Art Education Association Features articles that deal with issues of professional interest to art educators
Arts & Activities
Canadian Art Teacher "A Journal of the CSEA/SCÉA , The Canadian Art Teacher is published twice yearly. The goal of the journal is to help art educators exchange: fresh, exciting teaching ideas cutting edge classroom oriented research in art education information and reflections on issues affecting our students and fellow educators reviews of current books, web sites and teaching resources."
School Arts OPEN ACCESS "Since 1901, we have held strong to the belief that ALL K–12 STUDENTS deserve a quality art education. This is why we are committed to providing superior art curriculum, engaging studio lessons, and valuable advocacy and classroom resources.
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Research-Focused Art Education Journals

Studies in Art Education Studies in Art Education is a quarterly journal that reports quantitative, qualitative, historical, and philosophical research in art education, including explorations of theory and practice in the areas of art production, art criticism, aesthetics, art history, human development, curriculum and instruction, and assessment. Studies also publishes reports of applicable research in related fields such as anthropology, education, psychology, philosophy, and sociology.
Arts Education Policy Review Arts Education Policy Review ( AEPR) presents discussion of major policy issues in arts education in the United States and throughout the world. Addressing education in music, visual arts, theatre, and dance, the journal presents a variety of views and emphasizes critical analysis. Its goal is to produce the most comprehensive and rigorous exchange of ideas available on arts education policy.
Art Journal The mission of Art Journal, founded in 1941, is to provide a forum for scholarship and visual exploration in the visual arts; to be a unique voice in the field as a peer-reviewed, professionally mediated forum for the arts; to operate in the spaces between commercial publishing, academic presses, and artist presses; to be pedagogically useful by making links between theoretical issues and their use in teaching at the college and university levels; to explore relationships among diverse forms of art practice and production, as well as among art making, art history, visual studies, theory, and criticism; to give voice and publication opportunity to artists, art historians, and other writers in the arts; to be responsive to issues of the moment in the arts, both nationally and globally; to focus on topics related to twentieth- and twenty-first-century concerns; to promote dialogue and debate.
Canadian review of art education, research and issues [electronic resource]. Revue canadienne d'éducation artistique, recherche et questions d'actualité artistique. Education Library - Journals - Floor 2, Shelved by title The Canadian Art Teacher/Enseigner les arts of Canada (CAT) is published semi-annually by the Canadian Society for Education through Art. The goal of the journal is to enable the exchange of exciting teaching ideas, to disseminate novel art education research, and to discuss pertinent issues in the field. Readers and contributors include artists, educators, and researchers interested in teaching and learning in the visual arts.
Journal of Aesthetic Education "Journal of Aesthetic Education (JAE) is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning. The Journal thus welcomes articles on philosophical aesthetics and education devoted to problem areas in education critical to arts and humanities at all institutional levels, to an understanding of the aesthetic import of the new communications media and environmental aesthetics, and to an understanding of the aesthetic character of humanistic disciplines. The Journal is a valuable resource not only to educators, but also to philosophers, art critics and art historians."
Journal of Visual Art Practice "The Journal of Visual Art Practice (JVAP) is a forum of debate and inquiry for research in art. JVAP is concerned with visual art practice including the social, economic, political and cultural frames within which the formal concerns of art and visual art practice are located. The journal is concerned with research engaged in these disciplines, and with the contested ideas of knowledge formed through that research."
International Journal of Art & Design Education "The International Journal of Art & Design Education (iJADE) provides an international forum for research in the field of the art and creative education. It is the primary source for the dissemination of independently refereed articles about the visual arts, creativity, crafts, design, and art history, in all aspects, phases and types of education contexts and learning situations."
International Journal of education and the arts "The International Journal of Education & the Arts currently serves as an open access platform for scholarly dialogue. Our commitment is to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education and the education within the arts."

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