The Mystery of Dr. Who? On A Road Less Traveled in Art Education

Le., White (2004), Chalmers (2004), Thurber (2004), Burton (2004), Sullivan (2004); yet was not included in MacDonald's (1970) The History and Philosophy of Art Education or Raunff s (Ed., 2001) The Autobiographical Lectures of Some Prominent Art Educators, the latter published by NAEA. 3. taught three decades in a reputable (often "leading") faculty of art education right after completion of an Ed.D in that same institution 4. life began "... with my 6 a.m. birth on a snowy first day of spring;..." Hard 1. the only article (1985) of Dr. Who's ever reprinted in a scholarly art education journal (in 2003) was only once cited in the field of art education in 20 years (that we know of), and that was in Studies in Art Education in 20054 2. although continuing to write and publish significant (mature) works through the 80s-90s, art education colleagues usually only cite, if they do, Dr. Who's much earlier publications; from our literature search (books and journals between 1953- to present) we documented a total of 172 citations of Dr. Who's publications: 10% were citations of Dr.\n He continually wrote, implicitly and explicitly, about the need for "nondualism" (e.g., Beittel, 1985, p. 46) as an integrative approach (Ö la Wilber) and "metaphysical pluralism" (Beittel, 1978, p. 96) to apparently opposing worldviews and methodologies in art education research and curriculum.