Inviting readers to check colleges and educating with a serious lens, this visually and conceptually eye-catching photograph novel advocates for humanities schooling in colleges. on the middle of this paintings is the author’s memoir as a tender highschool artwork instructor within the public university approach. via attractive (and often humorous) anecdotes based on school room lifestyles, combined with discussions of schooling coverage and reform, readers discover teacher/student relationships, checking out and responsibility, 21st-century studying, and the background and goal of paintings schooling. Branham’s own narrative of demanding situations and triumphs show why paintings schooling may be preserved as a middle topic if scholars are to appreciate the relationship among creativity, severe pondering, and different higher-order abilities. “What’s So nice approximately artwork, Anyway?” is a fresh booklet for everyone—particularly for in-service teachers—and is a great foundational textual content in arts schooling and creation to educating classes.

“This pleasant image novel will problem all lecturers and potential educators to imagine extra deeply approximately their practice—the craft, the technology, and, convinced, the paintings of teaching.”
—From the Foreword through William Ayers, writer of To train: the adventure, in Comics (with Ryan Alexander-Tanner)

“With a contagious ardour, a dynamic pen, and a beneficiant wit, Rachel Braham returns paintings to its rightful position in our schools—the beating center of the schooling our kids deserve. ‘What's So nice approximately artwork, Anyway?’ isn’t only for artwork educators; it’s for all of us.”
—Adam Bessie, Diablo Valley university, co-author of picture document The catastrophe Capitalism Curriculum (with Dan Archer)

“This visually and conceptually appealing ebook blazes new territory within the culture of instructor memoirs, whereas reminding us of the important significance of artwork schooling in our schools.”
—Gregory Michie, Chicago instructor, writer of Holler when you listen Me

“This booklet is fresh! Branham's rules are purposefully provocative, and he or she expresses them via a well-liked medium.”
—Laurel Campbell, Indiana University-Purdue collage fortress Wayne