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Dyer, Becky – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2009
This article suggests how movement analysis from a socially contextualized perspective can inform understanding about the significance of sociopolitical contexts and aesthetic values in Western dance training. Perspectives of movement analysis provide groundwork for discussing perceivable ways to address discrepancies between democratic and…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Ideology, Aesthetics, Motion
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Welch, John H. – Quest, 1985
Most studies involving cinematographic analyses acknowledge the work of late 19th-century cinematographers and review current literature, but the significant "middle generation" of cinematographers are deleted. The contributions of Wallace O. Fenn, Herbert O. Elftman, Ruth B. Glassow, Ernst Jokl, and Thomas K. Cureton are highlighted.…
Descriptors: Biographies, Biomechanics, Films, Human Body
Tyndall, John – D. Appleton and Company, 1863
This textbook is a course on properties of heat. The first seven lectures of the course deal with "thermometric heat" and its generation and consumption in mechanical processes; the determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat; the conception of heat as molecular motion; the application of this conception to the solid, liquid, and…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Heat, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Norton, William A. – A.S. Barnes & Company, 1858
This textbook is a course in natural science and astronomy. The contents include mechanical properties of bodies; mechanics of solids; mechanics of fluids; nature and production of sound; nature and transmission of light; excitation and characteristic effects of electricity; properties and magnets; theoretical astronomy; and descriptive astronomy.
Descriptors: Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Light, Energy
Dudley, W. H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
The visual instruction section of the division of educational extension of the Bureau of Education has deposited in each of 35 distributing centers throughout the country an average of 113 reels of motion-picture film. In each of these centers these will be at once, or shortly, a part of a motion picture library. The technique of local…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Motion, Visual Aids, Films
Ward, Winifred – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
Creative drama, as a language art, has been a part of the elementary school curriculum for a number of years. Community organizations also have long been concerned with offering children rewarding experiences in creative dramatics, and many have pioneered in the establishment of children's theaters. Because of the relatively small percentage of…
Descriptors: Drama, Dramatics, Theater Arts, Elementary Schools