chers to share research, experiences, and action-oriented solutions that make 
um, and community contexts. This issue arrives at a moment of real pressure 
etrics increasingly frame program value in narrow, credentialing terms. Liberal 
ort are shrinking. With increasing societal and economic pressures impacting 
strating the critical role of art education in cultivating creative thinking.l
nced the teaching and learning of art and inquired how educators maintain 
of the work of ideation and production. These issues have not been resolved 
ve and critical thinking deserve protection and investment at every level. If 
pens at the level of policy, funding, and public perception when the value of 
cripts extends that inquiry outward focusing on advocacy as a powerful means 
ram preservation in the face of workforce-first accountability frameworks
and defend the value of creative and critical thinking as a durable skill
of the ideation and production process, and what does advocacy in this space 
k itself makes an argument for its own necessity
c and institutional support for art education
e case internally through administrator-facing advocacy to principals, deans, 
on?
ws, and traditional research manuscripts that examine practice, theory, and 
ironments.
cation Association. Original submissions for the 2027 Call for Manuscripts are 
d on the Texas Art Education Association website. All submissions undergo a 
ns.
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