DBAE: An Approach to Teaching Discipline-based art education (DBAE) is one of the approaches to instruct and learn in art. Educators who take the DBAE approach integrate content from four disciplines to contribute to the creation, understanding, and appreciation of art. DBAE is a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning art. Disciplined-based arts education is a conceptual framework that ensures that all students, not just gifted or talented students, are involved in rigorous study of …showed first 75 words of 877 total…

…showed last 75 words of 877 total…symbolically removed classroom walls, virtually bringing the art world into classrooms. The result of DBAE is a holistic approach to instruction that invites creating, improvising, composing, performing, interpreting, discussing, writing and thinking about, reporting, and valuing works of arts (AIAE, 2001). Comprehensive discipline-based arts education has the potential to produce higher standardized test scores, enthusiasm for learning (and, thereby, higher attendance rates), and increase in higher order thinking skills, and revitalization of teacher excitement and commitment.