The arts are recognised for their potential to humanise and enrich educational experience, but hold a lowly position in the hierarchy of school subject-based curricula. This limits the time, and thus the influence, they can have. Whilst schools welcome the idea of a curriculum rich with both arts and science subjects, resistance to realising this…

Talking about the existence of art since the cave period is a universally common judgment. It is said that reaching this judgment comes with understanding living collectively or living in an area. Therefore, in the first place, a conversation showed its existence in the language of communication, which provides the opportunity to understand each…

Purpose: Arts-integration is a promising approach to building students' abilities to create and critique arguments with data, also known as informal inferential reasoning (IIR). However, differences in disciplinary practices and routines, as well as school organization and culture, can pose barriers to subject integration. The purpose of this…

This purpose of this narrative study is to understand the personal stories of Black adults who have experienced mental health benefits from creativity and play. This study aimed to build dialogue that includes the voices of Black adults on what mental health practices are beneficial to them, better informing the pedagogy of counselor educators and…

Massachusetts' Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) undertook improvements in arts standards following the publication of the National Core Arts Standards and adopted revised standards, the Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Framework (the Framework) in 2019. In spring 2023, DESE contracted with RMC Research to conduct a third party,…

Despite the growing importance of digital portfolios for justifying creative work and study opportunities, little is known about arts students' creative appropriation of online portfolios in secondary school. In particular, there is a research gap concerning the challenges that young black women face when curating portfolios as visual arts…

This article analyses the problem of reception and interpretation of contemporary art exhibition in the context of "Besucherschule" ("Visitors' School") invented by Bazon Brock: German philosopher, art historian and a follower of Theodor Adorno. He implemented this practice for the first time on "documenta 4" in…

Twenty-two individuals are drawing, painting, collaging, sculpting with cardboard, and building with wooden blocks. Some are working collaboratively, and others work alone. Dialogue with the teacher and social interaction between learners catalyze the learning experience. The core curriculum goal, expressing ideas through self-directed art…

Place-based critical art education (PBCAE) blends an emphasis on place-based education and ecology with the cultural focus of critical pedagogy, the intention being to provide education that takes the ecological, cultural, social and political issues of a place into account. With this goal in mind, visual arts teachers are expected to utilize…

In this time of heightened political and social unrest in the United States, the higher education classroom has become a space where preservice art education students can discuss issues of identity and social interaction, including stories of "surviving" holiday dinners. Students often report that during meals with family and friends,…

This study examines the effectiveness of a blended instructional approach combining Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) and Task-Based Learning (TBL) in enhancing academic achievement and artistic appreciation among music performance students. Fifty second-year students from Beijing City College participated divided into an experimental group using the…

This article examines the dynamics of friction and tension in contemporary dance, focusing on the precarious working conditions within the Flemish dance sector. Recent studies have highlighted how such conditions often foster unspoken tensions and perpetuate a culture of silencing. In particular, high-profile cases in the Flemish arts have…

This study employed a mixed-methods design to investigate the impact of activities developed by the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) on the scientific creativity and scientist perceptions of gifted 5th-grade students. The research used a one-group pretest-posttest design with a sample of 22 students from a Science and Art Education Centre in…

Personally and professionally, the author shares experiences with school safety and how the English Language Arts (ELA) classroom may utilize middle grade novels to address gun violence with adolescents. Highlighting five middle grade novels that address school shootings--Katherine Erskine's (2011) "Mockingbird," Emily Barth Isler's…

This essay discusses the aesthetic potential within Bernard Stiegler's concept of technics, particularly its nascent or preactual form of realism. This realism fosters a sense of spontaneity, crucial to a modal engagement with time, being, and history in the face of contemporary planetary enframing. By critically appraising Stiegler's framework,…