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Arts-Core:K-2 joins the arts, literature, and ethics for children in grades K-2
Through the efforts of Associate Professor and Center for Learning through the Arts and Technology (CLAT) Director Liane Brouillette and Lecturer and CLAT Director of Outreach Kim Burge, a new project called "Arts-Core: K-2" is helping K-2 teachers in San Diego integrate art and ethics education into their classroom teaching. Supported by funding from the California Post Secondary Commission, the project is bringing professional dancers, painters, and actors into 12 classrooms in five schools each year for three years. Working collaboratively, arts professionals and classroom teachers are emphasizing literacy strands and thinking skills in the visual arts, drama, and dance lessons they co-teach. As part of the program, Project Co-PI Kristen Monroe, UC Irvine Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and Director of the Center for Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, is encouraging the use of literature to reinforce ethical and moral decision-making. Arts-Core:K-2 is featured in the Spring 2008 issue of Interface, a publication of the California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology. Anna Lynn Spitzer's article is entitled: "Crossing Over, Researchers Draw on the Arts to Advance Literacy and Ethical Behavior".
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