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Raymundo Muñoz – Arts Education Partnership, 2025
This story is part of a series of success stories focused on restorative justice work. The work featured in these stories seeks to acknowledge the impact of harmful practices and creates opportunities to heal that harm between those who enacted it and those impacted by it to transform the community. Birdseed Collective is an arts-based 501(c)(3)…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Art Activities, Community Programs, Cooperation
Allison Merritt Dennings Wiedemeier; Kim Marie Tolson – American Biology Teacher, 2025
Biology and art have been linked throughout history. Early scientists, such as Leonardo de Vinci and John James Audubon, used sketches and painting to document their findings. Even early hominids left evidence of their world through cave art. Histology, the microscopic study of tissues and cells, relies on defining shape and spatial relationships…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Art Education, Museums
E. Orsega-Smith; B. Wolfle; N. Amato; R. Suminski – Educational Gerontology, 2024
As the number of older Americans double in the next forty years, it will be important to delay the decline in cognition. The aim of this paper is to describe the feasibility and acceptability of a six-week cognitively stimulating program focusing on visual arts (Picasso, Andrew Wyeth, and Carl Warner), music (Bach and Franklin), and travel…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Cognitive Ability, Stimulation, Visual Arts
Pariece Nelligan; Daniela DiGiacomo; Phebe Chew; Julian Sefton-Green; Kylie Peppler; Sam Mejias – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2024
The benefit of participating in Out-of-School Time (OST) arts programs has been widely documented in studies that often reflect impact over short timeframes. Youth arts organisations often bear extraordinary claims about the impact of programs, and the value they hold especially in the lives of those who face difficult social circumstances. This…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Late Adolescents
Hsiao-Shen Wang; Min Tseng; Shih-Hsuan Wei – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The proportion of students studying in higher education institutions who are experiencing mental health needs is increasing and becoming a serious concern. Using participatory arts projects may be key to enabling students to maintain well-being despite the pressures inherent in their student role. Therefore, this study aimed to ascertain whether…
Descriptors: College Students, Art, Art Activities, Fine Arts
Joakim Karlsen; Kristine Høeg Karlsen – Research in Dance Education, 2024
This article examines how dance artists with extensive experience with "The Cultural Schoolbag" (TCS), a national programme for bringing the arts into schools, convey their rationale for working in TCS. Previous research has found that the artists' rationale for doing TCS-art is far from established and agreeing on what TCS-art should be…
Descriptors: Professional Personnel, Dance, Artists, Foreign Countries
Drake, Jennifer E. – Theory Into Practice, 2023
Learning how to regulate emotions is a significant developmental milestone in a child's life. It is important to understand which activities help children cope with emotionally distressing situations. One such activity, I argue, is drawing. In this article, I consider 2 ways in which drawing elevates mood in children: Drawing allows them to be…
Descriptors: Self Control, Emotional Response, Freehand Drawing, Program Effectiveness
Suzannie K. Y. Leung; Joseph Wu; Jenny Wanyi Li; Yung Lam; Oi-Lam Ng – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Educators and researchers are becoming interested in cultivating computational thinking (CT). However, in the Hong Kong context, CT-related studies regarding young children are rarely found. The present study aimed to use an unplugged digital arts activity to examine the CT concepts that children performed and document their CT developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computation, Thinking Skills, Young Children
Hartman, Ashley; Campenni, C. Estelle – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2022
This randomized controlled study examined the effects of creating open circle mandalas with divergent instruction type (distraction and reflection) and medium type (resistive and fluid) on state anxiety, mood, and mindfulness. The design followed a 2 (instruction type) x 2 (medium type) x 3 (time) mixed experimental design. Reflective writing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Metacognition, Art Activities, Art Therapy
Ball, Sarah; Leach, Brandi; Bousfield, Jennifer; Smith, Pamina; Marjanovic, Sonja – RAND Europe, 2021
There is growing interest in the use of approaches to public engagement with research that use the arts to facilitate engagement. However, there is a lack of systematic and consolidated learning about how arts-based approaches work in practice and about their effectiveness. To help respond to this gap in the knowledge base, The Healthcare…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Games
Hailey McAfee-Scimone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation describes a project to develop an art-based curriculum to teach young elementary school-age children social and emotional skills in the classroom based on the experiences of experts in the field of elementary education. Social-emotional learning (SEL) focuses on several key concepts including skills in interpersonal…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Art Activities, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students
Hakan Türkmen; Fatma Nurselin Edis – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2025
Informal learning supports formal education by facilitating students' learning and helping them to expand their knowledge outside the classroom. This paper explores the impact of informal learning environments on learning outcomes. This study aims to answer the question 'How does the use of informal learning environments within the scope of formal…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Recycling, Structural Elements (Construction), Art Products
Shaw, Ryan D.; Bernard, Cara Faith – Arts Education Policy Review, 2023
In recent years, arts education has become a focus of some school improvement efforts, with consistent evidence emerging that vibrant arts programs can improve factors commonly listed as goals in school improvement plans, including engagement, attendance, and school climate. Such models mainly make use of arts integration, an approach that marries…
Descriptors: School Culture, School Turnaround, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Orla O'Regan; Yvonne Doyle; Marguerite Murray; Vera J. C. McCarthy; Mohamad M. Saab – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Background: Challenging behaviours are common among children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities. Such behaviours often result in poor quality of life outcomes such as physical injury, difficulties with relationships and community integration. Aim: This systematic review aimed to synthesise evidence from studies that assessed the effect…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Children, Adolescents
Ball, Sarah; Leach, Brandi; Bousfield, Jennifer; Smith, Pamina; Marjanovic, Sonja – RAND Europe, 2021
These annexes accompany "Arts-Based Approaches to Public Engagement with Research: Lessons from a Rapid Review." The findings of the study are based on a literature review that followed the principles of a rapid evidence assessment, complemented by interviews with six experts in the field of arts-based public engagement. Key findings…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Games