The subject specific chapters serve students as an excellent beginning into teaching one or several of the arts education topics, demystifying the subject and providing vocabulary and lesson examples. As a resource this book would be highly useful for preservice teachers prior to and during their teaching career, as Dinham continually reminds the reader of the child-centred pedagogy embedded in the arts specific activities suggested. Useful for arts education students to refer to for lesson plan rationale writing, as there are many benefits and arguments for arts education. An excellent etext for arts education students online due to the easy-on-the-eyes layout.

--Fiona King