The classroom based study “From Dynamic to Expressionism: An Arts Integration Study” was designed to answer the question; Will implementing an interdisciplinary art and music unit affect the level of student confidence in ...
Fused: Encaustics in the Middle School Art Studio is a thesis study that examined one 8th and two 7th grade art studios classes. The study questioned if lecture presentation of the history, culture and times of Egyptian ...
The question of how gaining history, knowledge and processes of bookmaking can provide usable artistic skills and enrichment to an art teacher is addressed in this arts-based study. Several different methods of binding ...
Bridging the formative childhood past to the young cognitive adult, adolescents on their paths to discovering themselves are challenged with expressing their perspectives of identity as revealed in their relationship with ...
Arts integration allows students to connect disparate areas of content to create meaning and foster an understanding with academic material. This interdisciplinary classroom based study explores twenty-three fourth grade ...
Student absenteeism in public school classrooms creates a multitude of problems, especially in courses designed for whole group instruction and frequent teacher feedback; and which introduce learners to unfamiliar, complex ...
Developing creativity at the middle school level is a challenge as at this time many
changes are occurring developmentally, personally, and socially. With the addition of a
diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to ...
This action research project explores the impact of a collaborative lesson on the behavior and relationships of students in a combined 3rd/4th grade class at St. Mary of the Lake School in Chicago. Students in this class ...
This museum-based study analyzes museum visitors' emotional responses to viewing and creating artwork within the context of the museum space. Five clients from a women's shelter participated in the study, with ages ranging ...
This classroom-based study explores the role of storytelling among adolescent students with emotional disabilities in the art classroom. The research is based on existing literature and seeks to make useful discoveries ...
During World War II, from 1942 until around 1945, persons of Japanese ancestry living in America’s West Coast region were evacuated to concentration camps located in remote, isolated interior regions of the country. ...
The growing use of educational technology tools in the classroom was the impetus behind this study. This classroom-based study was conducted to determine how technology-based lessons in middle school art classes might ...
Inspired by personal work with autistic children and the pursuit for more knowledge, the research in this study contributes significant findings to the field of art and autism. In this thesis, the artworks and processes ...
This art-based study explores how an interest-based art lesson can effectively engage
urban students, improve creative thinking and artistic development, as well as reduce the occurrence of negative behaviors in the art ...
The definition of an artist-teacher has been an ongoing debate amongst many within the fine arts and art education. The following research is the journey of a newly proclaimed artist-teacher as she finds meaning in her ...
The intent of this research was to determine how including the backgrounds of students in the curriculum affects student engagement in learning and improvements in teaching. Participants in the study were grade three art ...