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Boonshaft, Peter Loel – Teaching Music, 1996
Recommends commissioning new works as a challenging and motivating learning experience for high school and college bands. Includes several guidelines for negotiating costs and performance rights with the composer, as well as other technical details. Discusses specific problems arising from this arrangement and possible solutions. (MJP)
Descriptors: Bands (Music), Cultural Enrichment, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Download full textGetty Center for Education in the Arts, Los Angeles, CA. – 1993
This publication contains proceedings of a seminar structured around five basic themes: (1) cultural diversity in education; (2) discipline based art education (DBAE) and cultural diversity; (3) how cultural diversity has affected practices in art history, aesthetics, criticism, and art making; (4) experiences in other disciplines which effect…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Criticism, Art Education, Art History
Peer reviewedGeist, Christopher D. – New England Journal of History, 1994
Discusses the furor created when Walt Disney Studios announced plans to develop a "historic amusement park" near the Manassas (Virginia) National Battlefield Park. Maintains that the public debate over the popular understanding of history reflects an ongoing tension between academic historians and the purveyors of popular history. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Enrichment, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction
Chall, Jeanne; Snow, Catherine – 1982
Addressing the question of why some children manage to continue successfully through the later stages of literacy acquisition while others are unable to meet the challenges presented by fourth and fifth grade reading tasks, an 18-month, in-depth study was conducted of the home environment factors influencing the reading comprehension of second,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cultural Enrichment, Early Reading, Elementary Education
Hackney, Sheldon – Humanities, 1995
Presents an impassioned and cogent plea for supporting the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Corrects and answers many of the misconceptions concerning the NEH and effectively refutes the most repeated criticisms. Briefly describes some of the NEH's most popular and successful projects. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Cultural Background, Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment
Behrens, Sophia A., Comp. – 1985
This updated resource guide for foreign language educators contains information on resources and services that can help enrich the classroom instruction. It is also designed for those who are concerned with the study or advancement of foreign languages and cultures. Information is provided on 149 foreign language service organizations and 68…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Cultural Enrichment, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKalmijn, Matthijs; Kraaykamp, Gerbert – Sociology of Education, 1996
Examines the link between racial inequality in schooling and differences in cultural capital, parents' socialization of their children into high-status culture. Reveals an interconnection between the integration of blacks into high-status culture and the black-white convergence in schooling. Suggests cultural capital possesses potential for upward…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Activities, Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment
