Artistically and Musically Talented Students (Essential Readings in Gifted Education, 9) - Softcover

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ENID ZIMMERMAN is Professor Emerita of Art Education and current Coordinator of High Ability Programs at Indiana University. In her research, she focuses on art talent development, creativity and art education, art teacher education, feminist art education, leadership and mentoring, global art education, and curriculum and policy issues. She has authored over 35 articles, 20 book chapters, and 25 books and monographs and has taught or conducted workshops in more than 25 countries. She was the first NAEA Research Commission Chair and is presently an NAEA Research Commissioner. Zimmerman has received numerous university, national, and international awards; the NAEA Elliot Eisner Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) is the most recent. She also served two terms as a North American World Councilor for the International Society for Education through Art. She co-edited Connecting Creativity Research and Practice in Art Education (NAEA, 2015) and had a leading chapter published in the Handbook of Research on Creativity (Edward Elgar, 2013). In addition, Zimmerman served as editor of 14 NAEA Advocacy White Papers (2011-2012) and wrote one of them. She presently is involved developing and evaluating leadership programs for NAEA. Through the Prism: Looking at the Spectrum of Writings of Enid Zimmerman (NAEA, 2009), co-authored by Robert Sabol and Marjorie Manifold, summarizes her influences on art education through her own writings and those of her former students and colleagues.