Throughout the last 25 years, a new form of expression has continually evolved despite the efforts of many in the so-called "establishment to minimize its influence on young people." This form of expression that was once limited to urban music and dance has become a widespread form of communication and expression by young people throughout the…

The semiotics of the stuff faculty stick to their office doors has recently attracted scholarly interest. It has been noted that these office doors represent a blank canvas, a space that a professor can fill with images and texts that furnish clues to his or her beliefs, interests, and philosophy of learning. This present study was inspired by the…

Stimulating the interest of students in biological sciences necessitates the use of new teaching methods and motivating approaches. The idea of the self-expression assignment (SEA) has evolved from the prevalent environment at the College for Women of Kuwait University (Safat, State of Kuwait), a newly established college where the number of…

The Everyday Learning Series has been developed to focus attention on the every day life experiences of early childhood and to offer insight about how parents and care givers can make the most of these experiences. Having angry feelings or feeling aggressive is normal. Most children learn to manage such feelings in safe and acceptable ways,…

Focusing on dress codes, this article aims at providing a better understanding of current practices of youth socialization in Japanese schools and of cultural consequences of post-scarcity on schools. Since the late 1980s, there has been a national trend among Japanese secondary schools granting students more freedom of individual expression…

This study continues a line of empirical work examining the extent to which incorporating movement into learning conditions enhances performance for African American students. To date, few studies have examined different types of movement opportunity. As such, five qualitatively different movement conditions were tested in an urban sample of 100…

The article describes the feelings and fantasies expressed in and through art by multiply handicapped, visually impaired children. (Author)

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Compiled to help teachers provide students with experiences in the performing arts, this booklet is based on the premise that these arts--geared to all children--aid students in becoming more aware of themselves through unique, personal means of expression. This publication focuses specifically on films, with chapters on film craft (a study of…

This book is a study of developments in the field of creativity. The major topics include: (1) creativity as related to intelligence and personality; (2) the structure of intellect; (3) research into convergent and divergent thinking; (4) educational factors in creativity; (5) creativity and environment; and (6) current trends in creativity…

Writing poetry can help children to develop basic language skills while fulfilling the basic need for self-expression. (D D)

By viewing rock lyrics as a vehicle that demands a sociopolitical response, rock and roll critics place in the hands of rock artists a responsibility that is not warranted. Particularly with regard to political messages, rock and roll should be viewed from a more individualized perspective. (BJV)

Encouraging young girls to write in a journal to know themselves better, this book gives several ideas for "journaling." It discusses why writing in a journal is important. The book presents writing ideas such as having a privacy journal, a seasonal journal (fall, back to school, winter, holiday thoughts, etc.), thoughts and feelings about family…

Concerned with conceptual and methodological problems involved in the attempt to quantify aspects of the images which individuals have of their environments. Deals with the specification of the image, the process of scaling mental entities, and associated procedures of sampling and generalization. Also presented is a model of the mind derived from…