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Després, Jean-Philippe – Research Studies in Music Education, 2022
Accessing the strategies implemented during real-time musical creative processes represents a challenge for researchers. Retrospective verbal protocol with subjective aided recall (RVPwSAR), where a first-person video is used as an aid to elicit feedback from a subject, has shown great potential for the study of real-time decision-making in sport,…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Video Technology, Feedback (Response)
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Joldersma, Clarence W. – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2020
The essay develops a case study about a young boy playing with a toy train to address neoliberalism's problematic discourse that depicts learning as instrumental, as something that can be caused by teaching. This paper's perspective is enactive, taking the view that central to understanding learning is not the mind or brain working in isolation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Neoliberalism, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods
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Fendler, Rachel; Hamrock, Jennifer – Art Education, 2018
What are the boundaries of art education? And what can we stand to subtract from it, while still allowing it to remain recognizable? These questions guided the authors', who are an assistant professor and a doctoral candidate in the field of art education-- developed a community art program in Tallahassee, Florida. The program, Artcation, took…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Programs, Summer Programs, Children
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Komatsu, Kayoko – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
This paper pays attention to the meaning of things in educational space. Students learn not only from words but also things with which they interact in the learning process. Especially in art education various things such as materials, tools, art works are indispensable. This paper tries to analyze the process of both creation and appreciation of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Learning Processes, Object Manipulation, Hermeneutics
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Bjerstedt, Sven – British Journal of Music Education, 2016
Theoretical approaches to learning in practice-based jazz improvisation contexts include situated learning and ecological perspectives. This article focuses on how interest-driven, self-sustaining jazz learning activities can be matched against the concepts of stolen knowledge (Brown & Duguid, 1996) and landscape of learning (Bjerstedt, 2014).…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Creative Activities, Music Activities
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Broström, Stig – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2017
In early childhood education and care, Nordic social pedagogy approach is challenged by a learning orientation that often results in unproductive "either/or" thinking. Therefore, based on the two approaches and by analysing several dimensions of Froebel's ideas and prevailing social-historical activity (play) theory, the author deduces…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Participation, Learning Activities, Creative Activities
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Xiang, Sophia – LEARNing Landscapes, 2019
Written from the perspective of a Grade 5/6 French Immersion teacher, this paper examines the role of music, poetry, and the visual arts in enhancing learner identity, in the context of the elementary school classroom. It begins with a focus on artistic metaphors that represent cultural and linguistic hyphenation. It then addresses practical…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, French, Immersion Programs, Music
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Pigrum, Derek – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2014
The philosophical underpinnings of this article are the Peircian notion of the triadic nature of the sign as iconic, linguistic and indexical, and the use of the sign as a "Zeug" or thing as a means of pointing to or "deixis" in the context of creative activity in the classroom. This involves Lyotard's conception of desire…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Educational Philosophy, Psychiatry, Teaching Methods
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Gordon, Jean; O'Toole, Linda – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2015
This article explores the perspective that well-being and creativity can be nurtured in children through understanding and addressing the diverse ways in which children learn, communicate, and develop (inner diversity). In particular, our working hypothesis is that focusing children's and young people's learning towards the realization of their…
Descriptors: Well Being, Creativity, Creative Development, Creative Activities
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Hakkarainen, Pentti – International Journal of Educational Research, 2008
Finnish curriculum guidelines for early education emphasise play and creative activities as significant factors in healthy child development. Constructivist theory loosely frames the guidelines, but the recommended approach lacks precise developmental goals. Since 1996, we have carried out a narrative learning project with vertically integrated…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Play, Early Childhood Education, Creative Activities
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Garcia, Lorenzo – Youth Theatre Journal, 1996
Examines why and how one elementary teacher--a veteran third-grade teacher in Arizona--uses drama in the classroom. Discusses how the teacher uses drama as a means for personal and professional growth, focuses on students achieving an understanding of self and others, and defines the drama curriculum as an "expressive orientation" within…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Creative Activities
Mikovec, Amy E.; Dake, Dennis M. – 1995
The new medium of computer-aided design requires changes to the creative problem-solving methodologies typically employed in the development of new visual designs. Most theoretical models of creative problem-solving suggest a linear progression from preparation and incubation to some type of evaluative study of the "inspiration." These…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Design, Computer Software, Creative Activities