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Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day
March 22, 2005
Jessica Hoffmann Davis former director, Arts in Education, Havard Graduate School of Education

Lecturing from her book Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day, Jessica Hoffmann Davis, offers suggestions for making non-arts education more connected to and like the arts.

This discussion is part of the John Landrum Bryant Lecture/Performance Series, sponsored by the HGSE Arts in Education Program and supported by the Bauman Foundation.

Art & Architecture | Education
Arts in Education | Non-Fiction
WGBH
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Author: Jessica Hoffmann Davis
Publisher: Teachers College Press (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 230 pages
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