This innovative book focuses on learning through as well as learning about the arts. It explores numerous ways in which the arts-visual, literary, and performing-can be integrated across the K-8 curriculum via national and state standards in arts education. The third edition of Integrating the Arts: An Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Setting reflects contemporary theory and practice and promotes ideas and skills that tap children's propensity for creativity and critical thinking. Merryl Goldberg provides numerous strategies and examples of learning through classroom activities such as music, dance, and poetry. The third edition includes special attention to inclusive education, with specific references throughout the text to children with special needs and gifted and talented education, as well as additional and updated information on using the arts to teach English Language Learners. Book jacket.