Understanding and creating art

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[by] Martin R. Wong & John D. Raulerson

A step-by-step exposition is presented of the manner in which the systematic application of the principles of instructional design can lead to sequential learning. Following an introduction to systematic instructional design, the second and third chapters of the book discuss a systems model of the classroom and the setting of objectives for systematic instruction. The next two chapters analyze the task to be taught and classify learning tasks and optimum learning conditions. Chapter six deals with the selection of methods and media and chapter seven with synthesizing components and preparing teaching plans, their evaluation, and the provision for feedback relating to the instructional system.

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Joan Horvath

Interviews with adolescent boys and girls in which they discuss their lives, thoughts, ideals, desires, and feelings about the opposite sex.

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Jon Eben Field

"Studies indicate that approximately four percent of adolescents experience serious depression. Depression and other mood disorders such as bipolar disorder, occur across all age groups, genders, economic classes, and ethnic groups. This informative title examines the causes and symptoms of depression and other mood disorders and provides information about treatment options. A chapter on caring for others discusses the difficulties young people encounter living with or caring for siblings or parents who are depressed or have a mood disorder."--

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E. H. Gombrich

"Considered a great classic by all who seek a meeting ground between science and the humanities. Art and Illusion examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of visual perception information and learning. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines many ideas on the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. In testing his arguments he ranges over the history of art, noticing particularly the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks, and the visual discoveries of such masters as Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt, as well as the impressionists and the cubists. Gombrich's main concern is less with the artists than with ourselves, the beholders."--BOOK JACKET.