An updated edition of the first book to focus on teaching the visual arts from a cultural standpoint. Teaching Visual Culture provides the theoretical and practical basis for developing a curriculum that lays the groundwork for art education at all levels (K– 2 and higher education) and across school subjects. Drawing on material, social, cognitive, aesthetic, and curricular theories, Freedman offers a framework for teaching the visual arts from a cultural standpoint. Chapters discuss visual culture in a democracy aesthetics in curriculum philosophical and historical considerations recent changes in the field of art history connections between art, student development, and cognition art inside and outside of school the role of fine arts in curriculum visual technologies television as the national curriculum student artistic production and assessment and much more. Additional content for the Second Edition includes applications of new materialism, ways to document and assess tacit
