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According the most current incarnation of the website devoted to the project and philosophy of Arts Propel, "Arts Propel is a five-year, collaborative effort involving Harvard Project Zero, the Educational Testing Service (ETS), and the teachers and administrators of the Pittsburgh Public Schools." (Arts Propel, 2003, retrieved at (http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/PROPEL.htm) It is a program designed to better integrate arts education into the often-confining educational framework of the American public school system. In other words, rather than teach art like reading or mathematics, in an Arts Propel classroom, "students approach the art form along three crisscrossing pathways that give Arts PROPEL its name."
These "crossings" include, but are not limited to production, where "students are inspired to learn the basic skills and principles of the art form by putting their ideas into music, words, or visual form," then perception, "where students study works of art to understand the kinds of choices artists make and to see connections between their own and others' work," and finally that of reflection where "students assess their work according to personal goals and standards of excellence in the field." (Arts Propel, 2003, retrieved at (http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/PROPEL.htm) Thus, through the medium of the practice of the arts in a holistic fashion, students learn both more about the arts as well as how to be better artists.
Howard Gardner's earlier article on the philosophy behind the project, written in 1989, entitled "Zero-based arts education: An introduction to Arts PROPEL" was written for the journal Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research, 30 (2), 71-83, and thus was intended, to advocate to members of the educational profession as well as professional academics, this new methodology of arts education, an educational program that ultimately came to fruition in practice.
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Gardener originally wrote his article to encourage the development of Arts Propel and programs like it, projects designed to free up arts education from...
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