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NT holds national teleconference this fall
By Tracy Donalson Staff Writer "Schools, Museums, Art and Chil- drew A Dialogue of States" is a na- tional teleconference that is being conducted by the NT Institute for Educators on Visual Arts in the fall. Panelists from the institute and Prairie Visions: The Nebraska Con- sortium for Discipline-based Art Education will participate in the tele- conference. The teleconference is scheduled to be televised from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Central Standard Time, Oct. 21 to school districts in Texas and Ne- braska. The show will broadcast over the Satellite Educational Resources Consortium network. The program was produced by the Nebraska Department of Education and Nebraska Educational Television. Theregistration fee foreach school is $80. Telephone lines will be open for subscribersof the Satellite Educational
Resources Consortiumnetwo kto join in the dialogue between states. Audience interaction is encouraged in an effort to expand the national view on what constitutes comprehensive art edu- cation. The phone number is 1-800-476- 5001. Information abouttelephone lineswill be provided after there is confirmation of registration. Dr. Bill McCarter is co-director for the NT Institute for Education in the Arts and regents professor. "Discipline-based art education is a more comprehensive approach," McCar- ter said. "It includes the making of art, re- sponding to art, making judgments about art, understanding the contributions art makes to culture and society and the va- rieties of meanings and values possible in the art experience." Christie Elementary School and the Millard, Nebraska schools are research and development sites in discipne-based art education and are funded in part by grants from the Getty Center for Educa- tion in the Arts.
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