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Penny Hay – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2024
This paper responds directly to the question, how do we communicate our philosophy of art education? It does this by drawing upon previous research with "House of Imagination, School Without Walls" and doctoral research exploring children's learning identity as artists, to illuminate a philosophical approach to art education and its…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Teaching Methods, Forestry, Artists
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Hellman, Annika; Lind, Ulla – Education Sciences, 2021
The ongoing marketisation of education is a great loss for visual arts education since explorative learning processes are marginalised in favour of more goal-oriented learning. The empirical material analysed in this research derives from the visual art portfolio of a student from an elective university course in visual arts education. Working…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Education, Aesthetic Education, Aesthetics
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wilson, gloria j.; Zuñiga-West, Flavia – Art Education, 2023
Creative thought leaders and educators have readily invited and challenged humans to harness the imagination as a way to envision otherwise. Ethical teaching and learning processes demand creating equity along a continuum of critical and creative practices (Freire, 1970/2014; hooks, 2009; Love, 2019). Some in the field of art education have taken…
Descriptors: Music, Feminism, Art Teachers, African American Teachers
Ramona L. Crawford – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Amid a long period of deskilling in art school curricula, craft has been denigrated as inferior to art and confining for artists, but can craft liberate imagination? The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between an adult learner's self-perceived capacity for imaginative expression in representational drawing and the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Adult Learning, Art Education
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Grushka, Kathryn; Lawry, Miranda; Chand, Ari; Devine, Andy – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
The image is the raw material of the twenty-first century. Images infiltrate all social and cultural spaces. Its digital-mediated realities drive communication, industry and knowledge. Images saturate life and adolescent learners are familiar with the participatory nature of image production and its social, educational and personal communicative…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Imagination, Imagery, Artists
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Coats, Cala; Singha, Shagun; Zuiker, Steven; Riske, Amanda K. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2022
In this article, we explore the implementation of a time-based intervention in a garden-based science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics curriculum with a 3rd-grade science class that flipped the overdetermined functions of time and overdependence on predetermined learning outcomes to cultivate a disposition of sensitivity to the…
Descriptors: Imagination, Art Education, Gardening, STEM Education
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Carter, Danielle – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2018
In an environment that encourages co-construction and participatory practices, and especially in an educational environment saturated with media and images in which children are considered to be valid and competent contributors to knowledge construction, children's visual literacy becomes increasingly important to the development of educational…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Metacognition, Reflection, Learning Processes
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Gouthro, Patricia A.; Holloway, Susan M. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2018
Many educators in adult, community and higher education contexts are concerned with fostering reflective learning amongst their students. This paper explores the concept of critical reflection and considers how engaging with fiction may be an innovative pedagogical approach to support critical learning opportunities. Drawing upon interviews with…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Adult Education, Fiction, Teaching Methods
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Robertson-Eletto, Joanne; Guha, Smita; Marinelli, Marina – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2017
This photo essay focuses upon the literacy practices of two groups of preschoolers as they built, illustrated, and dictated stories in response to their participation in a "Castle Project." Data, including literacy artifacts, photodocumentation, sociodramatic play scenarios, and conversations are qualitatively analyzed, coded, and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Preschool Children, Toys, Narration
Sunday, Kris, Ed.; McClure, Marissa, Ed.; Schulte, Christopher, Ed. – Bank Street College of Education, 2015
This issue explores the nature of childhood by offering selections that re/imagine the idea of the child as art maker; inquire about the relationships between children and adults when they are making art; and investigate how physical space influences approaches to art instruction. Readers are invited to join a dialogue that questions long-standing…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Art, Art Education, Play
Austring, Bennye D.; Sorensen, Merete – Online Submission, 2012
As the aesthetic learning process is always relational and developed in interaction with the surrounding culture, the participants in the aesthetic activities can develop cultural identity and social skills. Add to this that the individual can share its inner world with others through aesthetic activities in the potential space and in this way…
Descriptors: Art Education, Foreign Countries, Aesthetics, Self Concept
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Collins, Patrick W.; Hayes, Richard L. – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1983
Discusses the role and importance of the arts for education and society, arguing that the arts are not fluff to be eliminated from resource-limited curriculums, but are an important aspect of stimulating human imagination, thinking processes and the ability to feel. (WAS)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Educational Principles, Imagination
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Ray, Henry – American Annals of the Deaf, 1972
Teaching strategies intended to foster imagination and affective learning are discussed including sensitizing children to linguistic imagery, involving students in the learning experience, using visual arts like sculpture and painting to stimulate creative thinking, and stimulating appreciation of nonverbal expression through color and light…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Art Education, Educational Methods, Exceptional Child Education
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Wilson, Brent; Wilson, Marjorie – School Arts, 1980
Fifteen-year-old John Scott created a 35-page science fiction comic. The authors describe his effort to demonstrate that art teachers should not denigrate such work simply because it derives from popular culture, for it is a valid form of creative expression and one which teaches important artistic processes. (SJL)
Descriptors: Art Education, Comics (Publications), Creative Expression, High School Students
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Jalongo, Mary Renck – Childhood Education, 1990
Examines the contributions of creativity and imagination to the total learning of the young child. Offers arguments against the myths that lead to deemphasis of the arts in curriculum. Recommends ways of refashioning schools to promote the expressive arts. (BB)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Rights, Creative Art, Creative Expression
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