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Marshall, Laurie – Art Education, 2014
Art educators can "critique" senseless violence--mistreatment, exclusion, intimidation, bullying, violation, abuse, corruption, murder, and war--by unleashing the power of students' creativity. In this article, the author, sharing her philosophical context, discusses how art is preventative medicine with the power to transform the cycle…
Descriptors: Art, Violence, Peace, Art Activities
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Mayhew, Hannah E.; Frano, Kristen A.; Svoboda, Shelley A.; Wustholz, Kristin L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) studies of art represent an attractive way to introduce undergraduate students to concepts in nanoscience, vibrational spectroscopy, and instrumental analysis. Here, we present an undergraduate analytical or physical chemistry laboratory wherein a combination of normal Raman and SERS spectroscopy is used to…
Descriptors: Spectroscopy, Chemistry, Laboratory Experiments, Undergraduate Students
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Palmer, Michael S.; Matthews, Tatiana – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
Visual literacy was a stated learning objective for the fall 2009 iteration of a first-year seminar course. To help students develop visual literacy skills, they received formal instruction throughout the semester and completed a series of carefully designed learning activities. The effects of these interventions were measured using a one-group…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Visual Literacy, Skill Analysis, Learning Activities
Giampa, Joan Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Sinking maps, created by Northern Virginia Community College professor Joan Marie Giampa, are tools that teach fine art students how to construct visual metaphor by conceptually mapping sensory perceptions. Her dissertation answers the question, "Can visual metaphor be conceptually mapped in the art classroom?" In the Prologue, Giampa…
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Sensory Experience, Maps, Visual Stimuli
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Shanahan, Maureen G. – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2010
Malaika Favorite's "Furious Flower Poetry Quilt" (2004) is an acrylic painting that depicts 24 portraits of leading poets of the African Diaspora. Commissioned by Dr Joanne Gabbin, English professor and director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, the painting is part of a larger programme of poetry…
Descriptors: United States History, Poets, African American History, Slavery
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Crawford, B. Scott; Hicks, David; Doherty, Nicole – Social Education, 2009
If the mission of the social studies is to educate global citizens for the twenty-first century, then students must learn how to engage in the type of systematic and sophisticated literacy work that recognizes the power of images as well as texts. In an era of high stakes testing, it is not easy for teachers to find time to locate appropriate art,…
Descriptors: Artists, Cooperation, Museums, Art