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Ozkan, Zeliha Canan – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2023
Project-based learning in visual arts lesson is an effective method to develop students' creativity, self-confidence and learning skills. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of project-based learning method applied in 7th grade visual arts lesson on lesson outcomes and attitudes compared to traditional teaching. The study was conducted…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Education, Student Projects, Active Learning
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Monique Putter; Elmarie Costandius – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Visual art at school can create a learning environment where learners can learn, reflect and express opinions on critical citizenship and social justice issues as an informal modality that draws on different skills and allows for expression of thoughts and ideas in a medium other than words and numbers. A relevant issue in South Africa…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Art Education, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Chung, Sheng Kuan; Li, Dan – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2020
Over the past two decades, the field of art education has emphasized visual culture art education for developing visual literacy. More recently, social justice art education has come into focus since there have been many unresolved social justice issues in American society. Underprivileged groups such as persons experiencing homelessness have not…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Art Education, Homeless People, Elementary School Students
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Rust, Julie – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: Researchers interested in more playful literacy practices often abandon school-related contexts to instead follow young people to after-school settings, community spaces, social spaces, home environments, and online hangouts. However, play also makes itself visible, even (and sometimes especially) in more formalized learning spaces.…
Descriptors: Play, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Grade 6
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Blagoeva, Nadezda Vladimirova – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2019
This article addresses issues connected with project-based integrative teaching of visual arts to primary school students attending after-school activities. It explores the pedagogical outcomes of using contemporary art forms and materials for the promotion of collaborative knowledge construction and researches these processes in the classroom…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Integrated Curriculum, Educational Change
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Glass, Don; Wilson, Colleen – Art Education, 2016
As a fine art collection founded by a scientist with a passion for art and a vested interest in education, the Barnes Foundation is in an exciting and unique position to explore and develop educational programming around science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). The education staff determined that using science and math in the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Design
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Whitin, Phyllis; Moench, Candice – Art Education, 2015
Professional guidelines for English language arts call for the integration of multimodal literacy in the curriculum (National Council of Teachers of English, 2005). These guidelines are grounded in the belief that all meaning-making systems (e.g., visual, linguistic, spatial) are equally valuable. Each has unique potential that, when used…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary School Teachers, Art Products
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – English in Education, 2015
Explicit pedagogy that focuses on visual design and composition principles can affect students' responses to and understanding, interpretation and analysis of images, as well as the creation of their own visual representations. This article considers the why, the what, and the how of teaching various visual elements of art and design to students…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Semiotics, Art Education, Design
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Yacovelli, Gina – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2010
In this article, the author shares the success of her fun and engaging eco-art project for elementary students. Not only did she want to provide students with an engaging project, she also wanted to raise awareness surrounding several key issues, including changes in natural habitats, the sustainable balance of humans and nature, and our role as…
Descriptors: Zoology, Elementary School Students, Studio Art, Art Activities
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Robertson, Judy – Computers & Education, 2012
This paper argues that making computer games as part of a classroom project can develop a range of new media storytelling, visual design and audience awareness skills. This claim is supported by data from the evaluation of a six week game making project in a state funded primary school in which 11-12 year old learners made their own computer games…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Females, Gender Differences, Peer Evaluation
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Kalyoncu, Raif; Tepecik, Adnan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2010
The purpose of this study is to measure the effect of project-based learning that is used in visual arts course on students' academic success and permanence. The research was applied to students of Hasan Ali Yucel Primary School in the city of Trabzon during the fall semester of 2007-2008 academic year. Among the sample that had been selected…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Visual Arts, Art Education
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Kirker, Sara Schmickle – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
In this article, the author describes an art project for second-grade students based on American Regionalist Grant Wood's most famous painting, "American Gothic," which was modeled by his sister, Nan, and his dentist. This well-loved painting depicting a hard-working farmer and his daughter standing in front of their farmhouse is the project's…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Student Projects, Grade 2
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Duran, Emilio; Ballone Duran, Lena; Worch, Eric A. – Science Education Review, 2009
One of the biggest present challenges for teachers, especially in primary classrooms, is the need to address the content standards in all subject areas with the same amount of instructional time. While curriculum integration continues to be a powerful strategy to meet this challenge, teachers often find it difficult to bridge the gap between…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Animals, Curriculum Development, Visual Arts