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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Creative arts"”.
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Contributing to Quality Education Through the Creative Arts
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A creative arts center for Charleston, West Virginia
… deals primarily with the importance of the arts to society and a means by which the arts might be used to develop our culture. First it was necessary to investigate the effects of the arts on society and the relationship between the arts and everyday life in America. From the findings of …
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A Framework for the Consideration of Narrative in Creative Arts Practice
This research project is aimed at creative practitioners in art and design who choose to engage in postgraduate research and who recognise narrative to be an important aspect of their work. While the goal of narratology has been explicitly declared as an interest in understanding narrative in all …
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From High School to Creative Work: Cumulative Inequalities in Creative Arts Opportunities to Learn
<p>Pathways into creative careers—i.e., in the arts, culture, entertainment, and related fields—are fraught with inequalities, starting in early life. This dissertation uses restricted-use data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002) …
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Digital arts in the context of traditional and contemporary creative arts training and practices
… not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American physician and writer. (Wendell Holmes). This thesis has set out to provide a review of progress in the British universities post 60s. There was historical evidence of this tendency going back into …
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Academic librarians' perceptions of creative arts students as learners : a discourse of difference and difficulty
Academic Librarians, working in specialist arts universities, create resources, design services and provide information literacy sessions to enhance arts student learning. They work collaboratively as hybrid professionals and play a valuable role in supporting students to navigate the complexities …
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Self-Concept Through Art Therapy: Using Therapeutic Creative Arts Techniques With Students With Learning Disabilities
<p>This grant proposes the development of "Creative Pride Studio", a 12-session art therapy/self-education program designed specifically for students aged 9 through 12, diagnosed with learning disabilities (LD).</p> <p>This grant explores trends in the public educational system and discrepancies in …
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An exploration of how creative arts lecturers in higher education talk about reflecting on their teaching
… to this gap in knowledge, by exploring how creative arts lecturers talk about reflecting on their teaching through their own words, phrases, metaphors, events, experiences, and incidents. The focus on creative arts provides an opportunity to gain a critical understanding of some of the …
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Shared Experiences and Common Ground: Portraits of Families Who Participate in the Visual, Performing, and Creative Arts
… participation in the visual, performing, and creative arts and the importance of developing strong families have been discussed separately in available research literature, but few studies have specifically examined the experiences of multigenerational families who participate in the arts. …
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Understanding therapeutic support for adoptive families through the golden thread of attachment theory, constructionism and creative arts therapies
… adoptive families and the training required for creative arts therapists to effectively provide this support. Utilising attachment theory and constructionism as foundational frameworks, the research highlights the optimal strategies for aiding adoptive families in therapeutic …
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Creative Arts Therapies and Empirically Supported Treatments for Trauma: Differences in Treatment Preferences by Personality Type and Trauma Severity
… preferences for trauma treatment between the creative arts therapies (CATs) and empirically supported treatments (ESTs). The study considers the potential impact of demographic variables as well as personality according to Costa & McCrae’s (1992) five-factor model (openness to experience, …
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It opens a whole new world: older people’s perceptions of the role of the creative arts as leisure in their lives
… about how they benefited from participating in a creative arts program. The study brought together the research fields of leisure, arts and ageing well to explore the meaning that 10 older people gave to their creative leisure experiences. Narrative data from in-depth interviews were analysed …
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Peel, Fondle, Ogle: An exhibition and Unfixed parameters: A creative arts praxis investigation of the in-between conditions of the corporeal body: An exegesis
… psychically and symbolically through my creative arts praxis concerning the body, garment, object and performance. This exegesis unveils the potential for a reflexive and critical investigation of the in-between condition through a blurring of garment and the body. This blurring reveals …
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By which tools?: A critical comparative analysis of pedagogic discourse for the creative arts in formal and informal classrooms in a working class post-apartheid context
… differences in achievement levels within the creative arts classroom between working class schools and middle class schools. These achievement gaps were largely attributed to inadequate pedagogue skills and content knowledge and the lack of adequate materials in working class schools. The …
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A study of the positive influence of a Language Arts Literacy Portfolio Program on the High School Proficiency Assessment scores of eleventh grade students at the Creative Arts High School
… was to determine the influence of a Language Arts Literacy Portfolio Program on the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) scores of eleventh grade students at the Creative Arts High School of Camden, New Jersey. Eleventh grade students were divided into two SAT Prep classes. For the …
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