Craig Roland is currently Associate Professor of Art Education

Art education

Art education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...

 at the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

 in Gainesville

Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...

, Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. He has made many contributions to the field of Art Education

Art education

Art education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...

 through his research and publications.

Education

Doctor of Education, Art Education

Art education

Art education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...

, Illinois State University

Illinois State University

Illinois State University , founded in 1857, is the oldest public university in Illinois; it is located in the town of Normal. ISU is considered a "national university" that grants a variety of doctoral degrees and strongly emphasizes research; it is also recognized as one of the top ten largest...

, Normal. 1980-83.
Master of Arts, Art Education

Art education

Art education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...

, Miami University

Miami University

Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S...

, Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

, Ohio

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

.1976-77.
Bachelor of Science with honors, Art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

/Art Education

Art education

Art education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...

, Northern Michigan University

Northern Michigan University

Northern Michigan University is a four-year college public university established in 1899 located in Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With a population of nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest...

, Marquette.1969-73.

Current Teaching Position

Associate Professor of Art Education, School of Art & Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville. 1988-2007.
Graduate Teaching Assignment: Issues in Art Education, Curriculum in Teaching Art, Teaching Art in Higher Education.
Undergraduate Teaching Assignment: Teaching Art: The Study of Practice, Computers in Art Education

Art education

Art education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...

, Student Teaching Supervision.

Previous Teaching Positions

Assistant Professor, Art Department, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston. 1984-88.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Creative Arts, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. 1983-84.
Art Teacher (Grades 6-12), American School Foundation, Monterrey, Mexico. 1978-80.
Art Teacher (Grades 7-8), Shawnee Middle School, Lima, Ohio. 1977-78.
Art Teacher (Grades K-12), American School Foundation, Monterrey, Mexico. 1973-76.

Publications

His most recent publication, The Art Teacher's Guide to the Internet, explores the following topics:

1. How the Internet can support contemporary art education goals and practices
2. How the Web really works, and how to effectively search for online information
3. Building connections to students' everyday lives, including using the Web to support your students as knowledge builders
4. Promoting safe and responsible Internet use in the classroom
5. Assessment strategies to gauge students' learning and performance.

External links

• Roland's Website
• Art Junction