Studio Thinking 3: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Kimberly M. Sheridan · Shirley Veenema · Ellen Winner · Lois Hetland

Jun 2022 · Teachers College Press

About this ebook

Studio Thinking 3 is a new edition of a now-classic text, a research-based account of teaching and learning in high school studio arts classes. It poses a framework that identifies eight habits of mind taught in visual arts and four studio structures by which they are taught. This edition includes new material about how the framework has been used since the original study, with new perspectives from artist-teachers who currently apply the Studio Thinking Framework in their own practice. It also reviews how contemporary organizations, educators, and researchers outside the arts have utilized the framework, highlighting its flexibility to inform teaching and learning. The authors have added a new chapter on assessment to introduce the practical and thoughtful ways that teachers are using Studio Thinking to assess and evaluate students’ work, working processes, and thinking in the arts.

Praise for Previous Editions of Studio Thinking―

“Winner and Hetland have set out to show what it means to take education in the arts seriously, in its own right.”
—The New York Times

“This book is very educational and would be helpful to art teachers in promoting quality teaching in their classrooms.”
—School Arts Magazine

“Studio Thinking is a major contribution to the field.”
—Arts & Learning Review

“The research in Studio Thinking is groundbreaking and important because it is anchored in the actual practice of teaching artists …The ideas in Studio Thinking continue to provide a vehicle with which to navigate and understand the complex work in which we are all engaged.”
—Teaching Artists Journal