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Cheryl L. Nicholas; Heidi Mau – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2025
Media installations and performance are potent ways to creatively grapple with critical theories about cultural identity. This case study explores students' use of these arts methods to engage mass/lay audiences about the intersections between theory and their lived experiences of cultural identity. Sixteen students enrolled in an upper-division…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Concept, Sex Role, Self Expression
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Vorobel, Oksana; Kim, Deoksoon; Park, Ho-Ryong – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This qualitative case study explores an adolescent English learner's (EL's) expression of self and identity through multiliteracy practices on paper from an ecological perspective. The study follows Anni, a fourteen-year-old adolescent EL in an "Advancement via Individual Determination" elective class in a high school in the southeastern…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, High School Students, Adolescents, Self Expression
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Burkitt, Esther – Educational Psychology, 2018
The present study assessed concordance between child reported and adult observed strategies to depict single and mixed emotion in the same human figure drawings. 205 children (104 boys, 101 girls) aged 6 years 2 months to 8 years 3 months formed two age groups (6 years 2 months-7 years 2 months and 7 years 3 months-8 years 3 months) across two…
Descriptors: Young Children, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Freehand Drawing
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Smilde, Rineke – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
This essay addresses the relationship of improvisation and identity. Biographical research that was conducted by the author into professional musicians' lifelong learning showed the huge importance of improvisation for personal expression. Musically, the concept of "sound" appeared to serve as a strong metaphor for identity. In addition,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Creative Activities, Biographies
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Allison, Amanda – Art Education, 2009
Identity is a vital topic for discussion, exploration, and discovery in the art classroom. The artwork of Nikki S. Lee provides an opportunity for students to begin reformulating their notions about selfhood. The work of Nikki S. Lee is significant because it blends documentary, fashion, and staged and unstaged photography to allow viewers to…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Photography, Art Education, Art
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Valle, Imuris; Weiss, Eduardo – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This article is based on ethnographic work with two "crews" of young graffiti artists in southern Mexico City. The crews share certain characteristics with gangs or urban tribes, but more with "communities of practice": they live in the "figured world" of graffiti, a community of practice at the local and global…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Artists, Communities of Practice
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Kirkland, David E. – English Education, 2009
David E. Kirkland turns our attention to the ways tattoos can represent "human" stories of literacy through the power of inked flesh, the self-portrait it creates, and the words and worlds that surround the body. The body, for Kirkland, is an important site of cultural production that represents the transformative, political, and personal terrains…
Descriptors: Human Body, African Americans, Males, Physical Characteristics
Reddin, Louise – People Watching, 1973
The purpose of the art classes was to involve the children through firsthand experience in the enjoyment of their physical and aesthetic worlds. (Author)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Creative Thinking, Self Concept
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Gutteter, Lee J. – Studies in Art Education, 1976
Descriptors: Adolescents, Art Education, Art Expression, Personality Studies
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Parks-Lee, Barbara D. – English Journal, 1995
Explains how the artistic design of t-shirts with positive images, some having grown out of the study of particular literary works, do much for student attitudes, self-awareness, pride, and interest in school, especially in a "rainbow classroom." (TB)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Literature, Literature Appreciation
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Grallert, Margot – Harvard Educational Review, 1991
An art program at an alternative elementary school in Acton, Massachusetts, revolves around the belief that every person has an inner sense of self that should provide the direction for learning. The educational environment is designed to stimulate individuals to find their own personal direction. (SK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Educational Environment, Elementary Education
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Cohen, Elaine Pear; Gainer, Ruth Straus – Childhood Education, 1977
Art is presented as a key to understanding children's opinions and emotions, both for parents and teachers and for the children themselves. (SB)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Childrens Art, Communications
Di Leo, Joseph H. – 1970
Primary attention is given to the drawings of the normal child, starting with the earliest scrawls and drawings through the first representational drawings and the evolving human figure up to the sixth year of human life. The child's normal development is described, including the many normal deviations and immaturities often present. The use of…
Descriptors: Art, Art Expression, Body Image, Child Development
Dee, Molly – School Art, 1988
Gifted/talented junior high students in a special art program made self-portraits which incorporated both their physical appearance and their personalities, interests, and feelings. To make the students feel more comfortable with the project, photographic accuracy was deemphasized, and an interpretive narrative portrait was stressed. (JDD)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Expression, Gifted, Junior High Schools
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Lowenfield, Viktor – American Journal of Art Therapy, 1987
Recognition of the handicapped child's isolation from the environment is the basis for creative art therapy across handicapping conditions (physical disabilities, mental retardation, emotional disturbance, deafness, Blindness, speech impairment, cerebral palsy). Detachment may be overcome by self expression through drawings, paintings, and…
Descriptors: Alienation, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
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