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Showing 1 to 20 of 1001 for “"Arts in education"”.
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The Arts in Education: A Possible Key to Whole Brain Utilization and Positive Self-Concept
… relationship between self-concept and curricular involvement in the arts? If so what is the direction of that relationship? (2) Is there a relationship between cerebral dominance and curricular involvement in the arts? If so what is the direction of that relationship? (3) Is there a relationship …
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Understanding Creative Partnerships: An examination of policy and practice
Creative Partnerships was launched in 2002 as an arts-based education programme that aimed to transform the aspirations of young people living in socially and economically deprived areas of England. The organisation was established in response to the National Advisory Committee on Creative and …
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The impact of dance/movement classes on adolescent behavior in an urban high school setting
The inclusion of the arts in education has been undervalued and overlooked by many public school districts throughout the country. As a result of cutbacks, dance programs in educational settings have become an afterthought. In this study the relationship between dance/movement classes and …
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Theatre Arts Programs: Impact of Cognitive Development in Elementary School Students
… result of the 2001 legislation, No Child Left Behind elementary schools across the United States focus has turned to testing and accountability often neglecting arts in education. Despite numerous studies of the benefits that the arts can have not only in the social-emotional development of …
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Illuminating Art: A Philosophical Perspective on Students’ and Teachers’ Work in Art Education
This dissertation inquires about the situation of the arts in education by suggesting an alternative perspective on the way we see art. It does so through the illumination of three distinct yet complementary ways. First, this study explores what a primordial sense of art would look like. I argue …
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National curriculum on its way' and a challenging art education
This study explores the nature of a "challenging" art education. In Proceedings, National Curriculum on its Way Sina Farrugia writes that: "All children ... should be given an education in the expressive arts which is coherent, continuous and challenging". However, in the same book, it is also …
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Racial Becoming: How Agentic (Self-Initiated) Encounter Events Inform Racial Identity Refinement
… how the experience of negative encounter events informs racial identity formation. With the advent of new genealogical and genomic technology, it is imperative to expand the focus of identity literatures to include encounter events, which participants elect to experience (i.e. <em>self-initiated …
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The Benefits And Barriers To Arts Integration: Arts Accessibility In Public Montessori
<p>This mixed-method exploratory case study investigates the research question: To what extent do pre-K through eighth-grade public Montessori school teachers perceive that their professional knowledge and abilities, experiences, and resources impact their capacity to integrate arts into their …
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Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
Abstract The dominance of instrumentalism and utilitarianism in education today tends to reduce the value of dance. Research on dance in education is very limited. Recent reviews of research on the arts in education propose that research has to move from exploring transfer effects of artistic …
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Teacher Artistry and the Not-So-Still Life of Arts-Centered School Reform
… a current climate that often undervalues the arts in education, arts-centered schools and school reform continue to proliferate. This study describes, interprets and evaluates arts-centered school reform which is defined within this study as <em>the comprehensive and intentional restructuring …
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Professional development in arts integration: an activity theory analysis of participating teachers' experiences
This study examines the tensions and changes experienced by teachers participating in two professional development programs in arts integration through the lens of cultural historical activity theory. Between 2007 and 2012 the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts (SCEA) at the University of …
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Theatre arts assessment in New Jersey high schools
… Content Standards and State Frameworks have outlined what needs to be taught in public high school arts programs, but how will teachers and administrators evaluate student achievement in the creative fields? Investigation of recent brain-based research and information on metacognition as they …
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A Follow-Up Study of Business Education in the Public High Schools in the State of Washington
… to make a comparison of the current status of business education with previous studies to provide educators with information which they may use in making projections for future business education programs in the secondary schools of Washington.
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Integrated arts as a transformational medium of instruction in KwaZulu-Natal schools : a narrative self study
Thesis in compliance with the requirements for the Doctor’s Degree in Technology: Language Practice, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2012.
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