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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Educational criticism and connoisseurship"”.
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Effective Teaching
… schools. Data was collected through observations and interviews and examined through the lens of Elliot Eisner's educational criticism and connoisseurship. Through in-depth interviews, these effective teachers identified and interpreted experiences that have contributed to them being considered …
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Surveying the Soul: Shaping Auto-Criticism with Reflective Arts-Based Inquiry to Assess a Female Doctoral Experience
<p>This dissertation is an arts-based auto-criticism assessing the author's experience in her doctoral program. It is also perhaps the first dissertation elaborating on a method called auto-criticism, as derived from educational criticism and connoisseurship. The process of inquiry is rooted in …
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A. B.A.L.A.N.C.E.: A Well-Being Research Study
… known as A. B.A.L.A.N.C.E.. The method of educational criticism and connoisseurship was used as the qualitative method. Educational criticism is rooted in the process of expressing the specific qualities of one’s observations, while educational connoisseurship is rooted in the process of …
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Do-It-Together: Informal Transformative Sustainability Education
<p>The Climate Crisis is an urgent and inescapable reality students are thrust into. Learners must be prepared adequately for their futures, not only for their sakes but also because collective and transformative change is required. Transformative sustainability education provides one pathway to …
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Creating Life-Long Relationships With the Arts: A Caring Philosophical Approach
<p>It is important to understand how performing and visual arts teachers make their classes personally relevant for students. This study examines what the intentions of elementary performing and visual arts teachers who chose to teach with additional affective content. Four research questions were …
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Engaging Young Children in the Art Museum: An Educational Criticism of an Art Museum Summer Class
… of conditions leading to engagement for four- and five-year-old students in an art museum summer class. Utilizing Eisner’s theory on qualitative research, educational criticism and connoisseurship (1998), the researcher interviewed, observed, and received responses to a questionnaire in order …
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Restorative Justice & a Dean of Students: An Auto-Criticism of the Role of Care in School Discipline in a Poverty Impacted Public High School
<p>This qualitative study is an auto-criticism, an approach that allows researchers to study themselves. This emergent methodology is derived from educational criticism and connoisseurship, which fits under the broader category of arts-based research. School discipline is a programmatic component …
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Evolving Minds: Helping Students with Cognitive Dissonance
… science curriculum. Others face the challenge and deliver solid scientific instruction of evolutionary theory despite the conflicts that may arise. The latter were the topic of this study.</p> <p>I interviewed five teachers that had experience dealing with resistance to learning evolution in …
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Intentions, Operations, Beliefs, & Dispositions of Teachers at Culturally Diverse Schools: Examining the Intricacies and Complexities of Great Teachers
… is an increasing focus on teacher quality in educational reform, a lack of empirical research on exactly what culturally responsive teaching looks like, and a great deal of confusion on how teacher dispositions may be important in education. This study seeks to examine what great teachers …
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Student Expressions of Aesthetic Learning Experiences
… by the arts: perceptive, sensorial, imaginative, and creative. While the concept of aesthetic experience has been applied broadly within education, student expressions of such experiences have been neglected. This poses a problem of equity both ethically in that the suppression of student voice is …
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Digital Media's Transformative Role in Education: Beyond Potential to Essential
… all forms of digital media is part of our lives and therefore becomes a key <em>component</em> of education. Educators must consider the process of digital media curriculum as a learning model and form of experience adapted to education. This means the significance is on<em> how</em> to learn as …
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Attending High School Algebra I: In Search of Well-Managed, Engaging, Culturally Relevant, and Caring Classrooms
<p>The inequities in learning between the rich and the poor have become pervasive in United States. This is evidenced by the high school graduation rates, college attendance percentages, and employment statistics. Upon another wave of reform, the Common Core State Standards in mathematics are …