The world of education is constantly changing. As our culture and society evolves and grows, our educational practices must follow suit to reach the minds of tomorrow in a meaningful way. Arts integration is the teaching practice of using the arts as a lens through which students can view and articulate other subject matter. Integration of dance, music and visual arts promotes creativity and interest but also nurtures a meaningful educational experience. This confluence of educational disciplines will engage our students and excite them about learning. It is important to recognize that " culture populated by a people whose imagination is impoverished has a static future n such a culture there will be little change because there will be little sense of possibility" (Eisner, 2002, p. 5). Integrating the arts into the core curriculum empowers our students to believe in possibility and provides them a future of potential. The purpose of this study is to examine the process of arts integration within an urban middle school setting. The school chosen will be observed because it is established as an arts magnet school, serving the community as an Academy for the Visual and Performing arts. An arts magnet middle school embraces the principles of seeing artfully and uses the arts to illuminate and give dimension to the other core subject matter. The structure for the model of curriculum integration adapted by the arts magnet school faculty will be determined by analyzing interview transcripts, field notes, and faculty meeting notes. Classroom observations will also serve to provide evidence of implementation of the arts integrative process into the curriculum. The results will show how arts integration acts as learning "through" and "with" the arts as a result of a curricular process and collaborative engagement.

This study sets out to interpret pupils’ and teachers’ perceptions about learning in visual arts in the context of the third year visual art class of one of the three specialist arts schools in Greece. The rationale for the research was to understand how pupils and teachers in this type of specialist arts school perceived the learning process, which could have some transfer value to other contexts of learning in the visual art subject. The research may contribute to the body of knowledge and the practice of art education in Greece, and possibly inform future curriculum development in the subject. In Greece, since 1985, the development of art education and pupils’ aesthetic understanding has been one of the five fundamental aims for secondary and primary education. To improve art education at the primary and secondary level, the Greek Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs has undertaken several initiatives. One such initiative has been the development of specialist arts schools. These alternative specialist schools exist in several European countries. In 2003 the Greek Ministry of Education announced the establishment of the first arts school of the country. The year the research was conducted 2008-2009, three arts schools were operated in Greece. The research endeavoured to understand issues related to the learning process in one of the new specialist arts schools, as perceived by third year pupils (aged fourteen and fifteen years old) and their visual art teachers. The research used the interpretive research paradigm, as it is the most suitable method to explore the socio-cultural reality in which the pupils and teachers are situated. Qualitative data were collected using semi-structured interviews, observations, and focus groups. The analysis of findings revealed a learning experience very closely related with the philosophy and the content of the Greece’s national curriculum of visual art. However, according to the findings of this study further attention needs to be given to the issue of developing imaginative thinking, within the framework of the art curriculum. The study proposes an alternative version of the art curriculum, with a view to facilitating imaginative thinking, in the art curriculum of specialist arts schools in Greece as well as the teaching of art in normal secondary schools. It is hoped that the results of the study will offer ground for discussions and oppositions in the area of art education in Greece, in which area not much research has been undertaken. The study’s proposal for the revisions to the existing art curriculum for the specialist arts schools, as they are resulted from evidences embedded in pupils and teachers views, stress on the significance and the originality of the findings and for this reason it is hoped to concern the writing aspect of Greece’s future curriculum writers. This will add to the development of art education in Greece and further will foster relationships between the members of the particular school where the research was carried out.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO - KLEDSON ROCHA SOUSA.pdf: 866871 bytes, checksum: a299fc06259fddc38b1136d7e9e59601 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-02 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper presents the results of the research master's program in Graduate Education, Federal University of Amazonas, which aims to analyze the historical, political and educational devoted to the teaching of arts in order to understand the educational policies adopted in the Municipal Education Manaus / AM, in time for inclusion. With this, it is understood that the teaching path to the present day, it took several changes in school practice and even in legislation. Facing this reality, it remains to identify the current education and public policy and government has to be matched to the reference to the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education No. 9.394/96, the National Curriculum and Development Plan Education, thus contextualizing the historical, political and educational teaching art in the city of Manaus / AM, trying to understand how it happened the new curriculum restructuring approved by the City Board of Education with the Resolution No. 09 of December 17, 2009. The references show the development of public policies for education and their achievements throughout history and expressing concerns about the teaching of art in Brazil and teacher education Arts opposite the rapidity of change of this end of the millennium. The processing of search results will be based on the dialectical method, with the data collection research literature effected through documentary analysis. Thus, looking up from the interpretation and understanding of educational legislation and contextualization of teaching arts, point inclusion perspectives made possible by a necessary restructuring of arts education curriculum in public schools in Manaus-Amazonas. Sought to present education scenario in Arts in Manaus / AM from the decree No. 09/2009 which restructured the curriculum of basic education in the light of the legislation approved by the Municipal Council of Education where over 600 teachers were extralotados. Stand out, among others, the most significant data: 18% of teachers of Arts, are now acting as kindergarten teachers, 13% are working in the first years of elementary school, 13% act as administrative, 13% are managers as and, 8% as pedagogical support. / Este trabalho apresenta os resultados da pesquisa de mestrado do programa de Pós Graduação em Educação, da Universidade Federal do Amazonas, que tem por objetivo, analisar os contextos históricos, políticos e educacionais voltados para o ensino de Artes, visando à compreensão das políticas educacionais adotadas na Rede Municipal de Educação de Manaus/AM, em tempos de inclusão. Com isso, entende-se que na trajetória do ensino até os dias atuais, foram necessárias várias alterações na prática escolar e até mesmo na legislação. Frente a essa realidade, resta identificar se o ensino atual e as políticas públicas e de governo tem correspondido ao que deve ser tomando como referência a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional nº 9.394/96, os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais e o Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação, contextualizando assim os aspectos históricos, políticos e educacionais do ensino da arte, no município de Manaus/AM, buscando entender como aconteceu a nova reestruturação curricular aprovada pelo Conselho Municipal de Educação com a resolução nº 09 de 17 de dezembro de 2009. As referencias mostram os rumos das políticas públicas para o ensino e suas conquistas durante a história e que expressam preocupações com o ensino da Arte no Brasil e a formação do professor de Artes frente à rapidez das mudanças deste final de milênio. O tratamento dos resultados da pesquisa terá como base no método dialético, tendo como coleta de dados à pesquisa bibliográfica efetivada através da análise documental. Dessa forma, busca-se a partir da interpretação e entendimento da legislação educacional e da contextualização do ensino de Artes, apontar perspectivas de inclusão possibilitada por uma necessária reestruturação curricular do ensino de Artes nas escolas municipais de Manaus-Amazonas. Buscou-se apresentar o cenário da educação em Artes no município de Manaus/AM a partir do Resolução nº 09/2009 que reestruturou a matriz curricular da educação básica sob a luz da legislação vigente aprovado pelo Conselho Municipal de Educação onde mais de 600 professores ficaram extralotados. Destacam-se, entre outros, os dados mais significativos: 18% dos professores de Artes, hoje estão atuando como professores de Educação Infantil; 13% estão atuando nos Anos Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental; 13% atuam como administrativo; 13% estão como gestores e; 8% como apoio pedagógico.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Mississippi State University. Department of Leadership and Foundations. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Lúcia Mairot.pdf: 1064790 bytes, checksum: dd87051c063270b72d1fe09ccdc7fb4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-27 / Introduction: The introduction of the arts into the medical curriculum has aroused increasing interest since they present unique qualities that can aid in the development of the social aspects of medical practice, offering new and distinctive ways of exploring knowledge and professional identity. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of the use of the arts in the medical curriculum, through a bibliographical review. Methodology: The Lilacs, Scielo, PubMed and ERIC databases were searched for published articles on studies that attempted to evaluate the effectiveness of an arts-based approach in undergraduate medical education. Other articles were identified through active search. The following descriptors (Art or visual arts or paintings or literature or narrative or poetry or theare ormovies or films or cinema) AND (Medical education or medical student or medical curriculum) were used. We included only the articles whose study was conducted with medical students and whose effectiveness of the intervention was evaluated by comparison between groups (quantitative studies) or by medical student satisfaction by questionnaire (qualitative studies). We excluded articles that addressed the use of art in patients and professionals from other health areas, as well as articles describing the importance of art or those that did not describe the intervention used. The selected articles were read in full in order to identify the type of art used in the intervention, the author, the sample, the methodology and the conclusion about the reported activity. Results: A total of 28 articles were included in the study, distributed according to the type of art used: (n = 16) visual arts; (n = 6) literature; (n = 3) theater; (n = 3) cinema. The arts-sensitive educational skills reported in the studies evaluated were: Skills diagnostic observation, teamwork, and reflection and argumentation; facilitating cognitive learning; humanistic aspects of medicine (empathy / patient medical relationship); professionalism. Some studies state that arts-based interventions are effective at changing attitudes; however, they did not define how this success was measured. No study considers the effects on behavior. Evidence for the use of arts-based interventions to promote diagnostic observation skills has been shown to be stronger. However, its effect on other clinical skills has not been studied. Conclusion: Art can be a strategy to facilitate learning, since it helps the student to deal with the complexity of the human being and human health. This broader understanding of health and illness can lead to improved physician-patient relationships in clinical practice. However, due to the qualitative nature of most of the studies, based mainly on the student's opinion of the changes in their attitudes, the effectiveness of the interventions have not always been effectively demonstrated. / Introdução: A introdução das artes no currículo médico tem despertado interesse crescente, uma vez que as artes apresentam qualidades únicas que podem auxiliar no desenvolvimento dos aspectos sociais da prática médica, oferecendo maneiras novas e distintivas da exploração do conhecimento e da identidade profissional. Objetivo: Avaliar a eficácia da utilização das artes no currículo médico, por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica. Metodologia: As bases de dados Lilacs, Scielo, PubMed e ERIC foram pesquisadas para artigos publicados sobre estudos que tentaram avaliar a eficácia de uma abordagem baseada em artes na educação médica de graduação. Outros artigos foram identificados por meio de busca ativa. Foram utilizados os seguintes descritores (Art or visual arts or paintings or literature or narrative or poetry or theatre or movies or films or cinema) AND (Medical education or medical student or medical curriculum). Foram incluídos somente os artigos cujo estudo foi realizado com estudantes de medicina e cuja eficácia da intervenção foi avaliada por comparação entre grupos (estudos quantitativos) ou pela satisfação do estudante de medicina por questionário (estudos qualitativos). Foram excluídos artigos que abordavam a utilização da arte em pacientes e profissionais de outras áreas de saúde, bem como os artigos de descrição da importância da arte ou aqueles que não descreviam a intervenção utilizada. Os artigos selecionados foram lidos na íntegra de modo a identificar o tipo de arte utilizada na intervenção, identificar o autor, a amostra, a metodologia e a conclusão sobre a atividade relatada. Resultados: Foram incluídos 28 artigos no estudo, sendo distribuídos de acordo com o tipo de arte utilizada: (n=16) artes visuais; (n=6) literatura; (n=3) teatro; (n=3) cinema. As competências educacionais sensíveis a artes, relatadas nos estudos avaliados, foram: habilidades de observação diagnóstica; trabalho em equipe, reflexão e argumentação; facilitação do aprendizado cognitivo; aspectos humanísticos da medicina (empatia/relação médico-paciente) e profissionalismo. Alguns estudos afirmam que as intervenções, baseadas em artes, são eficazes na alteração de atitudes, entretanto, não definiram como esse sucesso foi medido. Nenhum estudo considera os efeitos sobre o comportamento. As evidências para o uso de intervenções, baseadas em artes para promover habilidades de observação diagnóstica, mostraram-se mais fortes. No entanto, seu efeito em outras habilidades clínicas não foi estudado. Conclusão: A arte pode ser uma estratégia facilitadora do aprendizado, uma vez que auxilia o estudante a lidar com a complexidade do ser humano e da saúde humana. Esse conhecimento mais amplo sobre saúde e doença pode levar à melhoria da relação médico- -paciente na prática clínica. Entretanto, devido à natureza qualitativa da maioria dos estudos, baseados, principalmente, na opinião do estudante sobre as modificações ocorridas em suas atitudes, a eficácia das intervenções nem sempre foram efetivamente demonstradas.

The diploma thesis called Visual arts education and artistic creation in Štětí describes the teaching and the conception of Visual arts in Štětí. The methods of qualitative research were implemented, namely the observations of the art teachers in practice, the interviews with the teachers and the statements of the pupils. All these methods were used in order to answer the research question. Another aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the educational and cultural institutions. In the practical part, the Visual arts project focusing on a particular space and situation is introduced. KEYWORDS Art education;arts; city of Štětí; educational intitutions; art education project

Doctor of Philosophy / Curriculum and Instruction Programs / Frederick Burrack / This study is an intertwined critical autoethnography through which my experiences, my stories, are woven together with memories of family, students, and teaching career. Together, the telling of these stories will explore how I negotiated my identity development throughout my middle and high school experiences at a time when I could have been labeled as an at-risk student. The development into my professional career and personal life all influenced strongly by my participation in music education. Filtering these stories and memories through the lens of critical whiteness theory, this study interrogates the social assumptions that may be placed on at-risk students, exploring how these assumptions function within the context of access within our current music education structures, and investigates the ways in which social support systems allow opportunities for access of white male students and privilege in music education. An overarching question guiding this research is: How does the interrogation of such white privileges inform how one develops their identity as a music educator, a researcher, an academic, a husband, a father, a human, as well as, the curricular structures in place guiding access within music education?

(ENG) This diploma thesis deals in a complex way with the theme of via crucis, from the kunsthistorical, social cultural and pedagogical point of view, therefore it is a connection of a theoretical study with an exploratory probe and also an art project. It analyses iconography and contexts of particular themes of passion cycle and it shows various appearance and current state of via crucis themselves in the Czech republic. At the same time this part aims to be an inspiration and a theoretical basis for teachers who would decide for the inclusion of a religious theme to the educational process. The thesis also indicates what pedagogical potential does a Christian theme imply in education and what educational aims stated in RVP could be achieved thanks to this theme. The thesis then deals with the theme of via crucis in the educational complex of art lessons and with the possibilities of didactic transformation of a passion story. The suggested and realized theme scheme maps the relationship and opinions of pupils and also the contribution and the difficulties of a religious theme used in educational process. The orientation in opinions, knowledge and experience of pupils concerning religious themes and the orientation in the current state of religiosity in the Czech republic is ensured thanks to...

(1) Background: The equality of life chances in Germany is often assessed along the lines of a west/east and urban/rural differentiation in which the latter usually perform worse. One currently popular proposal for addressing these inequalities is to strengthen cultural and arts education. The question arises to what extent regional characteristics genuinely influence participation opportunities and to what extent individual resources still play a decisive role. (2) Methods: Using descriptive analyses and multilevel logistic regression modelling, we investigate the distribution of and participation in non-formal cultural education amongst German youth. (3) Results: We find that differences are more complex than a simple west/east or urban/rural divides. Rather, cultural activities must be considered in terms of their character in order to assess the mechanisms at play. There seem to be differences in the dependency on district funding between very peripheral and very central districts that frame the cultural infrastructure. (4) Conclusions: Regional discrepancies are not uniformly distributed across different fields of education or infrastructure. Simplifying statements that classify peripheral regions the general losers can be refuted here. Simultaneously, more comprehensive data could yield significantly more results than we are currently able to produce.

Abstract in English, Afrikaans and Zulu / The purpose of this interpretive study was to explore the perceptions of selected Namibian subject advisers on their role in supporting teaching and learning. There are limited studies on the roles of subject advisers in supporting instruction. Delivery of quality teaching and learning prompts subject advisers to support teachers. The study is important to build upon the body of literature on instructional support and how subject advisers elsewhere support instruction. International and national scholastic literature was interrogated to seek more insight into the research topic. This qualitative study was located within a phenomenological/interpretive paradigm. The study explored the purpose of subject advisory support, how teachers’ support needs are identified, the roles of subject advisers, character traits of subject advisers, formats of support used by subject advisers, and the challenges as well as support provided to subject advisers. The study was conducted at three Regional Offices of Education, Arts and Culture in Namibia and included ten subject advisers selected through purposive sampling. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews and document analysis. Key findings emerged through the data analysis by identifying categories and themes. These findings emphasised that subject advisers understand the nature of instructional support differently. The findings revealed that subject advisers face challenges that make them less effective in teaching support. It was further evident that subject advisers receive limited support and that they need to be supported through training, provision of resources and reduction of workload. These conclusions and others informed the recommendations that are aimed at improving subject advisers’ practice. / Die doel van hierdie vertolkende studie was om die persepsies van uitgesoekte Namibiese vakinspekteurs oor hul rol in onderrig- en leerondersteuning te ondersoek. Die bestaande studies oor die rol van vakinspekteurs in onderrigondersteuning is beperk. Die lewering van gehalte-onderrig en -leer spoor vakinspekteurs aan om onderwysers te ondersteun. Hierdie studie is belangrik omdat dit op die bestaande literatuur oor onderrigondersteuning en hoe vakinspekteurs elders onderrig ondersteun, moet voortbou. Internasionale en nasionale skoolverwante literatuur is geraadpleeg om meer insig oor die navorsingsonderwerp te kry. Hierdie kwalitatiewe studie val binne ʼn fenomenologiese/vertolkende paradigma. Die studie het ondersoek ingestel na die doel van vakinspekterende ondersteuning, hoe onderwysers se ondersteuningsbehoeftes geïdentifiseer word, die rol van vakinspekteurs, karaktereienskappe van vakinspekteurs, ondersteuningsformate wat deur vakinspekteurs gebruik word, en die uitdagings wat vakinspekteurs te bowe moet kom sowel as die ondersteuning wat hulle ontvang. Die navorsing is gedoen by drie streekskantore van Onderwys, Kuns en Kultuur in Namibië, en tien vakinspekteurs is deur doelbewuste steekproefneming gekies vir hierdie doel. Die data is deur halfgestruktureerde onderhoude en dokumentontleding ingesamel. Sleutelbevindings het deur die data-ontleding aan die lig gekom deur die identifisering van kategorieë en temas. Hierdie bevindings beklemtoon dat vakinspekteurs die aard van onderrigondersteuning verskillend verstaan. Verder onthul die navorsingsresultate uitdagings wat vakinspekteurs minder doeltreffend maak in hul onderrigondersteuning. Dit was ook duidelik dat vakinspekteurs beperkte bystand kry en dat hulle ondersteun moet word deur opleiding, voorsiening van hulpbronne en verminderde werkslas. Bogenoemde en ook ander gevolgtrekkings het aanleiding gegee tot die aanbevelings wat gedoen is en wat gemik is op die verbetering van vakinspekteurs se manier van doen. / Lolu cwaningo oluhlaziyayo beluhlose ukuthola imiqondo yesihloko sabaluleki bezifundo baseNamibia abakhethiwe ngendima yabo yokuxhasa uhlelo lokufundisa nokufunda. Luncane kakhulu ucwaningo olwenziwe mayelana nendima edlalwa ngabaluleki bezifundo ekuxhaseni uhlelo lwezemfundo. Ukwethulwa kohlelo lokufundisa nokufunda kuphoqa abaluleki bezifundo ukuba baxhase othisha. Ucwaningo lubalulekile ekwakheni uhlaka lombhalo wobuciko ohlelweni oluxhasa ezemfundo nangendlela abeluleki bezifundo kwezinye izikhungo baxhasa izinhlelo zemfundo. Umbhalo wobuciko emhlabeni kanye nasezweni waphenywa ngenhloso yokufuna ulwazi olubanzi ngaphakathi kwesihloko socwaningo. Lolu hlobo locwaningo olwencike kwizingxoxo lwatholakala ngaphakathi kwepharadayimu yefenomenoloji/ yokuhlaziya. . Ucwaningo luye lwaphenya inhloso yohlelo oluxhasa ngezeluleko, indlela izidingo zothisha zivezwa ngayo, izindima ezidlalwa ngabaluleki bezezifundo, izimpawu zesimilo sabaluleki bezifundo, izinhlaka zokuxhasa ezisetshenziswa abaluleki bezifundo, kanye nezinselelo ezibhekene nabaluleki, kanyenoxhaso olunikezwa abaluleki bezifundo. Ucwaningo lwenziwa kumaHovisi eSiyingi ezeMfundo, eZobuciko kanye neZamasiko eNamibia kanti luye lwaxuba abeluleki bezifundo abayishumi abakhethwe ngohlelo lwesampuli olunenhloso. . Idatha yaqoqwa ngohlelo lwenhlolovo embaxambili kanye nokuhlaziywa kombhalo. Kuye kwavela ulwazi olubalulekile olutholakele ngokusebenzisa uhlelo lokuhlaziya idatha ngokukhipha izigaba kanye nezindikimba. Lolu lwazi olutholakele lugcizelela ukuthi abeluleki bezifundo banolwazi ngobunjalo bohlelo oluxhasa ezemfundo ngendlela eyehlukile. Ulwazi olutholakele lukhombisa ukuthi abeluleki bezifundo babhekene nezinselelo ezibenza ukuba bangakwazi ukusebenza kahle ohlelweni lokufundisa oluxhasayo.. Ngaphezu kwalokho kuye kwacaca ukuba abeluleki babengaxhaswa ngokwanele mayelana nokuqeqeshwa, ngokuhlinzekwa ngemithombo yezemfundo kanye nangokunciphisa umthamo womsebenzi. Lezi ziphetho kanye nokunye yikho okuye kwakha izincomo ezenziwe futhi ezazihlose ekuthuthukiseni imisebenzi yabeluleki bezifundo. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / M. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)