Discipline-Based Art Education emphasizes four pillars: art production, art criticism, art history, and aesthetics.

• A. Critical Pedagogy
• B. TAB
• C. DBAE
• D. Cognitive Theory

Answer: (C)

Discipline-Based Art Education organizes art teaching around four interconnected areas: art production (making art), art criticism (analyzing and interpreting artworks), art history (placing works in historical and cultural contexts), and aesthetics (exploring meaning, value, and perception in art). This combined framework is exactly what the description of four pillars refers to, so the term that best fits is Discipline-Based Art Education. The other options point to different approaches: Critical Pedagogy focuses on social justice and power dynamics in education, TAB emphasizes student-directed art making, and Cognitive Theory deals with how learners think and learn rather than outlining a four-part framework for art education.