I teach art education courses for undergraduate students majoring in Art Education and in Elementary Education, and I teach and work with Master's and PhD students in Art Education.  Currently I am coordinating the Master's program in Art Education and serve as the advisor for students in that program.

I came to IU in 2006 from a long career in museum education (with The Saint Louis Art Museum) and in museum-studies program development (at Northern Illinois University).  My coursework and research both focus on the meanings of images and artifacts in museum settings and in everyday life:  my new undergraduate course, M200 "Artifacts, Museums and Everyday Life", visits campus and community museums as well as Target, the town square, and Goodwill, for example. 

Professional affiliations include the American Association of Museums, National Art Education Association, American Educational Research Association, Association of Midwest Museums, Midwest Popular Culture Association, Art Education Association of Indiana, and various other professional associations.  I've been a W.K. Kellogg National Fellow (the project involved "the hidden arts curriculum of small towns"), a Vice-President of AERA, on the board of the Illinois Association of Museums, coordinator of the "Instructional Resources" section of NAEA's Art Education, and am currently on the editorial board of NAEA's research journal, Studies in Art Education.  I am now co-coordinating plans for an annual small conference on visual culture studies in art education, meeting in February 2010 in Washington, D.C.  My own publications (see attached vita) have been articles in art education, curriculum studies, museum education, visual culture, qualitative evaluation and research, a number of edited books on those subjects, and one very old book on curriculum theory edited with my major professor while in graduate school.  I am a photographer and frequently use my own images in my teaching. 

Ph.D. Education (Curriculum Studies), June 1975, Stanford University

M.A.  Education (Curriculum Studies), June 1973, Stanford University

A.B.  Psychology, April 1968, University of Michigan

• M200 ARTIFCTS,MUSEUMS&EVERYDAY LIFE
• Z550 TOPICAL SEMINAR IN ART EDUC

• Vallance, E. (2008). Visual culture and art museums: A continuum from the ordinary. Invited in Ebitz, D. (Ed.), Visual Arts Research special issue on museum education. 34:2 (Issue 67), 445-54.  COPY ATTACHED.
• Vallance, E. (2009), Arts education curriculum, history of.  Invited entry in C. Kridel, Ed., Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (Sage Publications), 1,000 words. COPY ATTACHED.
• Vallance, E. (2009).  Arts education curriculum. Invited entry in C. Kridel, Ed., Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (Sage Publications), 2,500 words. COPY ATTACHED.
• Vallance, E. Exploring visual culture downtown. Accepted by Visual Arts Research, September 2008, publication expected June 2009.  COPY ATTACHED.
• Vallance, E. (2008). Battling for art content in the school curriculum. Invited contribution to Mathison, S. and E.W. Ross (Eds.), Battleground schools: An encyclopedia of conflict and controversy (Greenwood Press). Pp. 37-43.  COPY ATTACHED

• Vallance, E. (2008) .  Visual culture connections to museum images: Categories and teaching implications.  Annual conference of Art Education Association of Indiana, French Lick IN. HANDOUT ATTACHED.
• Vallance, E.  (2008)  Museums as way stations in the life stories of objects.  Annual conference of Association of Midwest Museum, Kansas City. MO. HANDOUT AND POWERPOINT SHEETS ATTACHED.
• Vallance, E. (2008). The picture postcard:  techniques for interpreting the idealized image.  Annual conference of Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association, Cincinnati.  HANDOUT AND POWERPOINT SHEETS ATTACHED.
• Vallance, E. (2008).  Target, Goodwill, and the museum exhibit: Objects and their changing meanings.  Annual conference of Midwest popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association, Cincinnati.  HANDOUT  AND POWERPOINT SHEETS ATTACHED.
• Vallance, E.  (2008).  A typology of visual culture sources: Parallels to art museum objects.  Annual conference of National Art Education Association, New Orleans. HANDOUT AND POWERPOINT SHEETS ATTACHED.