Tema: Šokis su ugnimi kaip prevencijos priemonė 12 – 18 Tyrimo problema – Kaip vaikams iš socialinės rizikos šeimų, stokojantiems socialinių įgūdžių, šokis su ugnimi gali padėti tokius įgūdžius susiformuoti? Tyrimo objektas – rizikos grupės vaikų požiūris į šokį su ugnimi kaip meninės saviraiškos priemonę. Tyrimo tikslas – ištirti kokį poveikį turi šokis su ugnimi vaikų socialinių įgūdžių tobulėjimui. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Aptarti meninio ugdymo sampratą ugdant socialinės rizikos grupės vaikus 2. Išanalizuoti šokio ir žongliravimo ugnimi meno reikšmę bei naudą asmenybės formavimuisi. 3. Ištirti kaip šokio su ugnimi praktiniai užsiėmimai gali padėti rizikos grupės vaikams lengviau adaptuotis prie aplinkos. 4. Ištirti šokio su ugnimi studiją lankančių vaikų socialinių įgūdžių pokyčius po pirmojo pasirodymo. Tyrimo hipotezė – meninis ugdymas stiprina vaikų pasitikėjimą savimi bei adaptavimosi visuomenėje įgūdžius. Išanalizavus mokslinę literatūrą ir atlikus tyrimą, prieita prie šių išvadų: 1. Išanalizavus mokslinę literatūrą, galime teigti, kad šokiai su ugnimi daro teigiamą įtaką rizikos grupės vaikams. Įskiepytas noras tobulėti ir ugdyti save bei ilgos ir sunkios valandos treniruočių salėje – morališkai ir fiziškai sustiprėję vaikai. Daug laiko ir pastangų buvo skirta meniniam vaikų ugdymui: asmenybės tobulinimui, bendravimo įgūdžių gerinimui, kultūros mokymui, disciplinai. 2. Darbo metu grupėje pastebėti kardinalūs pokyčiai vaikų elgesyje: pakilusi savivertė... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Research problem – can arts education, or at this point dancing and juggling with fire be an effective preventive mesure for children at risk? The subject of the research – how children at risk adapt to the environment. The objective of the research – analyze how dancing with fire affects the improvement of an individual. Tasks of the research: 1. Analyze the concept of arts education and how it can be used in life. 2. Analyze the meaning and the benefits of the art of dancing and juggling with fire. 3. Examine how practice of dancing with fire can help children at risk easier to adapt to the environment. 4. Select and prepare a team of children that would appear in a full performance. The hypothesis of the research: arts education strengthins childrens confidence and skills to adapt to the society By analyzing scientific literature and the results of the research these conclusions have been made: 1. Teachers and parents must be able to educate children`s personality through arts education. 2. Juggling increases brain power and develops logical thinking. 3. Arts education helps children at risk develope abilities such as freedom of expression, discipline, basic features of culture, self – esteem and respect to others, imagination. Which they didn‘t have the opportunity to get from their families. 4. Practicing dancing with fire helped develope these skills: 2. Self confidence and trust to others; 3. Quick desicion – making in stressfull situations; 4. Responsibility... [to full text]

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of examining the work and leisure values in the industrial society and identifying objectives and methods which develop these two values in the student through industrial arts. Information was gathered from the written works of industrial arts, general education, sociology, and psychology. The study offers a survey of work and leisure values which have evolved in the twentieth century. Also, it presents a historical perspective of industrial arts objectives relating to work and leisure values as they are influenced by the vocational, social, and general education movements. Finally, the study presents specific strategies and tactics which develop work and leisure values through industrial arts.

I det här arbetet har begreppet kreativitet utifrån den konstnärliga området undersökts ur ett pedagogiskt perspektiv. Det empiriska materialet som består av svar från två enkätundersökningar och bilder från deltagare i en fokusgrupp har analyserats hur en bild med “rätt” resurser bidrar till en mångfald av idéer och skapar en kreativ bild. Detta för att belysa hur vi kan öva upp vår egen kreativa förmåga inom den konstnärliga området med hjälp av visuellt material, i det här fallet “Handbok för kreativitet”. I undersökningen framkom det att en kreativ bild är en bild som består av en bildkonstruktion och teckensammansättning som ger en mångfald av tolkningar och associationer och är öppen för transformering. Detta bidrog till vidare förståelse för hur ett kreativt synsätt i skolan är viktigt för att nå en mer jämlik skola mellan det verbala och textuella och praktiskt utförande. Undersökningens gestaltande del utgörs av egna visuellt framtagna bilder som är tolkade utifrån de bilder som ansågs som gynnsamma för kreativitet och skapande i en av enkätundersökningarna. Hela gestaltningen är i form av en bok, “Handbok för kreativitet” på 58 sidor och består, nästan enbart, av visuellt material.

Thesis advisor: Karen Arnold / Liberal education has long claimed moral education to be a chief aim of its educational format. Liberal education supporters regularly assert its unique ability to foster moral and ethical development in students, but data regarding higher education's efficacy in promoting moral development are limited. Additionally, the educational goal of moral development suffers important philosophical and epistemological critiques which bring into question its adequacy as a worthwhile aim of contemporary higher education. In order to discern whether higher education resources should be used to pursue this educational objective, liberal arts practitioners and supporters must identify clearly what moral education is, whether it is a facet of college student development worthy of our attention, and how to adequately measure it. This study offers a careful analysis of data related to student moral reasoning development gathered in an evaluation process of a liberal education course at a mid-sized research institution. The central research questions focus on aspects of student moral development and students' perceptions of the moral dimensions of coursework and highlight how these interact with students' abilities to receive and process course materials and activities. The research design employs a concurrent triangulation approach to quantitative and qualitative course assessment materials. James Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT), a well-researched, neo-Kolhbergian measure of moral reasoning, and student writing were analyzed in pre- and post-course evaluations to investigate students' moral reasoning development as they entered, changed and left a year-long liberal arts course. Results reveal important features of student moral growth, illuminating how students at different levels of moral reasoning development and with varying degrees of change with respect to moral reasoning engaged with liberal education course materials and activities in quite distinct ways. This is an important step in uncovering the unique aspects of liberal education that may foster and sustain moral growth. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

abstract: This study examined directors’, master teachers’, graduate and undergraduate String Project teachers’ perspectives of the skills and behaviors important for teaching strings. Participants were from the 40 String Projects listed on the National String Project Consortium website, including String Project directors (n = 16), master teachers (n = 7), graduate (n = 6) and undergraduate string teachers (n = 46) involved in String Projects across the United States. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 72 years old. The survey for this study was based on Teachout’s 1997 survey pertaining to teachers’ skills and behaviors in three categories: teaching, personal, musical. A cover letter containing a link to the electronic survey was sent to directors and master teachers for the 40 String Projects, requesting their participation and the participation of their string teachers. Seventy-five participants from 19 String Projects completed the survey. Means and standard deviations were calculated for each item for each of the four participant groups. Overall means for each category of skills and behaviors were calculated followed by a one-way Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) to determine which of the three categories the teachers and directors believed most important. Three one-way MANOVAs were used to analyze participants’ perspectives for three broad categories of skills and behaviors (personal, teaching, and musical) across the four participant groups. No significant differences were found across all three MANOVA analyses. Additionally, descriptive statistics were used to determine the rankings of importance for the four participant groups on 40 survey items. Results showed that participants in all four groups believed that personal skills and behaviors were more important than teaching and musical skills and behaviors. Also conducted were Pearson Product-Moment Correlations, which analyses revealed a strong positive relationship between the ranked perceptions of musical and teaching skills and behaviors (r = .78, p = .00), between musical and personal skills and behaviors (r = .65, p = .00), and between personal and teaching skills and behaviors (r = .84, p = .00). Strong positive correlations were found between the three categories. Recommendations for research and practice were given. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music Education 2019

The Kansas City School District was unable to attain accreditation from 1955 until 2016, enduring high dropout rates, exceptionally low college entrance rates, and poor performances on standardized tests. At the district’s fine arts school, students also experienced these low educational outcomes. But despite these educational setbacks, the fine arts training they received appears to have contributed to their successful long-term outcomes in adulthood. The purpose of this case study is to explore the factors that contributed to talent development and overall thriving among adult artists who attended the fine arts school in this low performing school district. The research questions include 1) How do the artists describe the experience of developing their talent while attending an unaccredited high school? 2) What factors do the artists identify that aided in the emergence and continual development of their artistic practice? I interviewed 8 adult artists (aged 34-37) who discussed experiences that catalyzed and contributed to the development of their artistic talent. I identify themes and interpret data using grounded theory. Based on existing research about talent development, this study might show that these students thrived because the fine arts school they attended prioritized talent development over core content standards. The focus on talent development appears to have cultivated certain intrapersonal traits—such as awareness, motivation, and perseverance—which may account for their success as adults. Such identifiable traits are relevant to the “21st century skills” that are emerging in the education community. By understanding these artists’ experiences through a case study, educators and policymakers may have a clearer picture of how talent development helps to cultivate 21st century skills in students.

<p>The overall aim of this dissertation is to investigate how students engage with visual representations as a signifying practice in an educational context. This question is scrutinized through two young girls’ three video films and interviews with the producers. The study is guided by an interest in what these young students communicate with their films, how this is done and how they relate to the cultural and social world in their representation. The title, Ambiguous Images, alludes to the signifying work with film, images and words done by the two girls. The films raise topics such as sexuality, equality and gender which set their mark on the situation of young females, both in school and in their leisure time. The result shows that moving images fulfil the function of negotiating the significations as well as making it possible for the girls to create their own alternative representations. Each film contributes an alternative discourse, in contrast to dominant texts that apply to the constitution of the cultural and social context they address. The study demonstrates that learning is a process of selection, adaptation and transformation motivated by the interests of the pupils and the context of learning. Other important issues are also raised concerning the students’ possibilities to participate in and influence the school subject in question. This involves both the opportunity of engagement with a multiplicity of modes and the possibility to adopt their own voice and view of the world. Both the methodological and the theoretical approach in the dissertation have multimodal and social-semiotic perspectives, which are combined with a design approach. These combinations are united in a presentation of representation and communication as a social process of sign-making.</p>

The overall aim of this dissertation is to investigate how students engage with visual representations as a signifying practice in an educational context. This question is scrutinized through two young girls’ three video films and interviews with the producers. The study is guided by an interest in what these young students communicate with their films, how this is done and how they relate to the cultural and social world in their representation. The title, Ambiguous Images, alludes to the signifying work with film, images and words done by the two girls. The films raise topics such as sexuality, equality and gender which set their mark on the situation of young females, both in school and in their leisure time. The result shows that moving images fulfil the function of negotiating the significations as well as making it possible for the girls to create their own alternative representations. Each film contributes an alternative discourse, in contrast to dominant texts that apply to the constitution of the cultural and social context they address. The study demonstrates that learning is a process of selection, adaptation and transformation motivated by the interests of the pupils and the context of learning. Other important issues are also raised concerning the students’ possibilities to participate in and influence the school subject in question. This involves both the opportunity of engagement with a multiplicity of modes and the possibility to adopt their own voice and view of the world. Both the methodological and the theoretical approach in the dissertation have multimodal and social-semiotic perspectives, which are combined with a design approach. These combinations are united in a presentation of representation and communication as a social process of sign-making.

Title from PDF of title page. / Document formatted into pages; contains 90 pages. / Thesis (M.M.)--University of South Florida, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. / ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research was to review a significant body of literature that related to music and arts education in the context of community engagement. An examination of the literature identified several issues affecting the engagement of communities in arts education pertaining to arts education policies, the role of arts organizations and the relationship between schools and communities. The summation of this research included an overview of models of successful collaborations between the public school and community institutions at national, state, and local levels in the United States with implications of future reform to the arts education policy. / ABSTRACT: With such a vast array of program offerings initiated through the collaborative partnering of schools with communities and local arts agencies, valuable insights can be gained from concerted research efforts in the field of music education as to the unique opportunities afforded through purposeful community engagement. / System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

This report explores example models from nine different operational areas found in the arts schools movement, examines the positive and negative impact of each, and attempts to draw cursory conclusions that could be applied to those seeking to evaluate an existing, or establish a new, arts school. The operational areas included in this report are the purpose of the school, size and scope, finances, governance and administration, faculty and staff, facilities, recruitment/auditions/retention, community involvement, and learning and information resources. Over the past four decades, arts-focused primary and secondary schools have been established to provide students with an alternative to traditional campuses across the country using a variety of operational models and tactics for success but there has been limited documentation of their effectiveness. This report seeks to begin the establishment of such documentation. / text