Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.
1. The Professional Field: Theorizing Visual Culture in Education -- 2. Finding Meaning in Aesthetics: The Interdependence of Form, Feeling, and Knowing -- 3. The Social Life of Art: The Importance of Connecting the Past with the Present -- 4. Art and Cognition: Knowing Visual Culture -- 5. Interpreting Visual Culture: Constructing Concepts for Curriculum -- 6. Curriculum as Process: Visual Culture and Democratic Education -- 7. Art.edu: Technological Images, Artifacts, and Communities -- 8. Contributing to Visual Culture: Student Artistic Production and Assessment