Purpose: Anxiety disorders are a common mental health problem on college campuses. Underused creative programs offer intrinsic value to the successful integration of college students. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of the use of building block therapy (LEGO® ) in stress management/reduction in comparison to traditional art…

Philosophy of Art is one of the elective courses taught in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Art Education. It is closely related to the course of introduction to art concepts, psychology of art, and art theory and art criticism. This course can be more effective when students have the opportunity to actively participate and traditional…

Arts-based assessment is an objective measure that incorporates artistic experience or artistic materials into the assessment process and enables to get unique contributions about pupils. The current survey focused on arts-based assessment in the Czech Republic to explore the following issues: how did arts therapists assess suitability of therapy…

Background: Systematic reviews cataloguing the barriers to and facilitators of various outcomes are increasingly popular, despite criticisms of this type of review on philosophical, methodological, and practical grounds. The aims of this review are to appraise, analyze, and discuss the reporting and synthesis practices used in recently published…

What happens to art education when the national school curriculum in Israel follows a 'core subjects' policy? Allocating only two hours for all five art subjects (visual arts, music, drama, dance and cinematic arts) that remain outside the core curriculum increases the social-economic gap between children whose parents can fund their art education…

This paper explores the developments and trends in higher education from a pedagogical perspective (specifically, multidisciplinary curricula) and research perspective (the interdisciplinary approach), and traces them from a last resort option to their recognition as a legitimate development with added value. The paper focuses on a case study that…

This study aimed to reveal the reasons underlying school principals' preferences for paintings to be exhibited on their school's walls. Also, it was examined whether there is a difference between the frequency of school leaders' participation in artistic activities as well as their preferred art genres represented by different paintings. The…

Fidelity of implementation (FOI) refers to the level of adherence that a project keeps to its design. The evaluation of this project, a school-based arts implementation project, used a "fidelity to structure" design to determine how well the schools in the project followed the project design in the fourth and fifth years of the project…

Turkey's Ministry of National Education aims to identify and develop valuable characteristics to prepare the nation's young for their professional life as adults. The Ministry has been conducting an extensive and comprehensive review of the educational system since the beginning of 2000. Educational system was implemented in time for the 2012/2013…

The Creative Learning Initiative (CLI) is a community-wide effort to bring creative learning and the arts to each and every student in Austin. Lead by MINDPOP, the City of Austin, and Austin Independent School District (AISD), CLI designs systematic and sustainable programs that integrate creativity, creative teaching strategies, and the arts with…

This instructional resource is inspired by questions generated during ART21's "Creative Chemistries: Radical Practices for Art + Education" at the Park Avenue Armory in New York on February 20-21, 2015. It utilizes one of the four group dialogues held at the event to investigate ways that art educators can make the spaces between their…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the United Nations includes Article 19, which protects the "right to freedom of opinion and expression" and the right to "impart information and ideas through any media" (UN General Assembly, 1948, art. 19), which are qualities inherent to artistic creativity as a human…

In this article, I discuss the concept of compositionism as an onto-epistemology of being and knowing that questions human exceptionalism. Compositionism suggests that humans exist in interdependence with complex bio-social systems that need to be assembled together with an ethics of response-ability toward threatened places and beings. I propose…

Courses: Organizational Communication, Advanced Organizational Communication, Organizing Work, Management/Organizational History. Objectives: This activity will help students to understand major shifts in the organization of work and creatively represent changing work structures and practices. An optional follow-up assignment is included. A…

Art education remains a subject in many school districts which is at risk of being cut due to low funds. In order to maintain arts in schools, stakeholders must see the many benefits that art provides for students. Those in art education also face issues with limited resources and lack of respect. Thus, it is essential to have an effective…