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Middleton, Jerry C.; Middleton, Jason A. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2017
Few studies in the existent empirical literature explore the career transitions of performing artists. First, we provide working definitions of career transition and of a performing artist. Thereafter, we peruse empirical studies, from the 1980s onward, that delineate the career transition process in terms of three main types of transition:…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, Theater Arts, Artists
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Kornetsky, Lisa – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2017
Critique in undergraduate theatre programs is at the heart of training actors at all levels. It is accepted as the signature pedagogy and is practiced in multiple ways. This essay defines critique and presents the case for why it is used as the single most important way that performers come to understand the language, values, and discourse of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Theater Arts, Criticism, Individual Development
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Pérez-Fabello, María José; Campos, Alfredo – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
The relationship between dissociation and auditory imagery were assessed, 2 variables that sometime influence on artistic creativity. A total of 170 fine arts undergraduates (94 women and 76 men) received 2 dissociation questionnaires--the Dissociative Ability Scale (DAS), and the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES)--and 2 auditory imagery…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Questionnaires, Creativity, Foreign Countries
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Jackson, Mark – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant has been important in education theory, especially in the historical context of the Enlightenment and its legacies on contemporary understandings of global education. Particular reference is given to Kant's writing on Enlightenment thinking and especially to his 1803 Über Pädagogik/Lectures on pedagogy whose…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Educational Theories, History, Aesthetics
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Johansson, Viktor – Educational Theory, 2017
What happens if we think of children's play as a form of great art that we turn to and return to for inspiration, for education? If we can see play as art, then what and how can we learn from children's play or from playing with them? What can philosophy, or philosophers, learn from children's play? In this essay Viktor Johansson gives examples of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Preschool Children, Play, Fiction
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Burkitt, Esther – Educational Psychology, 2017
Effects of asking children to communicate through their drawings have been investigated using animate rather than inanimate drawing topics. The present study investigated the impact of a communication context on children's drawings of topics with contrasting animism. Three hundred and twenty-two children, 156 boys and 166 girls aged 6-11 years…
Descriptors: Children, Freehand Drawing, Nonverbal Communication, Psychological Patterns
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Young, Chase; Stokes, Faida; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 2017
Readers Theatre has been used to introduce critical issues, promote fluency among English learners and non-English learners, teach vocabulary, and integrate content in the classroom. Previous studies of Readers Theatre application have demonstrated an increase in student reading fluency, motivation, and confidence. The focus of this systemic…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Reading Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension
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Moore, Tracey – Teaching Artist Journal, 2017
Increased technology use by college-age students (millennials) has created problems for the acting classroom. Constantin Stanislavski's technique is still the standard, but students arrive to campus unready or unable to engage in his methods or with each other, so new approaches are required. Classroom exercises are provided, many inspired by…
Descriptors: College Students, Acting, Theater Arts, Teaching Methods
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Rowsell, Jennifer; Vietgen, Peter – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2017
Telling stories through photographs is certainly not a new or novel concept; however, thinking about image-making as a way of unknowing what we currently know is quite different from traditional approaches to photography. Built on an existing conceptual framework, writings on unknowing, we apply unknowing as a guiding method and heuristic to…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Photography
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Mayer, Susan Jean – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2017
As an educator, Maxine Greene returned repeatedly to the dynamic transaction that John Dewey had theorized between a vital social world and individual creativity. With Dewey, she viewed mutually transformative relations with others as the wellspring of all personal growth and social progress and as key to achieving a form of freedom that both…
Descriptors: Creativity, Freedom, Moral Values, Educational Philosophy
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Amengual-Quevedo, Irene – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2017
This article presents some of the reflections articulated in the author's doctoral thesis: "Saberes y aprendizajes en la construcción de la identidad y la subjetividad de una educadora de museos: El caso del proyecto Cartografiem-nos en el museo Es Baluard". (Knowledge and learning in the construction of the identity and the subjectivity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Arts Centers, Teachers
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Wilson, Stephanie Elizabeth; Zamberlan, Lisa – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2017
This article draws on current research investigating the notion of design for an unknown future. It reflects on recent thinking about the role of creativity in design practice and discusses implications for the development and assessment of creativity in the design studio. It begins with a review of literature on the issues and challenges…
Descriptors: Design, Scholarship, Creativity, Studio Art
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Moses, Russell G. – Educational Theory, 2017
In this essay, Russell G. Moses argues that Charles Sanders Peirce's article "Evolutionary Love" establishes a general normative framework for a logic of evolutionary, progressive imagination that can be used to elucidate an evolutionary continuity between the normative works of Jane Addams, John Dewey, and Alain Locke. This exercise…
Descriptors: Ethics, Teaching Methods, Models, Progressive Education
Seaman, David M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Libraries often engage in services that require collaboration across stakeholder boundaries to be successful. Institutional repositories (IRs) are a good example of such a service. IRs are an infrastructure to preserve intellectual assets within a university or college, and to provide an open access showcase for that institution's research,…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Libraries, Library Services, Stakeholders
Cole, Washington, IV – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Belfanz and Byrnes (2012) estimate that approximately 5 to 7.5 million youth in public schools in the United States are chronically absent from school. Compulsory school attendance laws mandate students to attend school for a specified time period. Even with compulsory attendance laws in place, there are children who miss school. Attendance laws…
Descriptors: Attendance, Academic Achievement, Public Schools, Grade 5
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