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Basak, Rasim; Erdem, Cagla – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
Kindergarten teachers use art-based activities and practices because they are useful and functional in learning processes and they help learning in other subject areas. While teachers allocate great deal of classroom time for art practices, an art curriculum is not required or enforced at kindergarten level. The objective of this study was to…
Descriptors: Art Education, Kindergarten, Art Activities, Alignment (Education)
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Marianthi Kalafati; Evgenia Flogaiti; Maria Daskolia – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Creativity is key in developing students' environmental competence so that they come up with working and sustainable solutions to address environmental issues in daily life. However, these remain under-investigated in both Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) research. Here, we report an action research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
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Türkoglu, Didem; Kandir, Adalet; Gözüm, Ali Ibrahim Can – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
This study aims to examine the visual artwork made by children as a result of the visual arts education practices of preschool teachers in institutions in terms of having tool- or art-oriented structures. The working group of the study consists of the visual artwork created by 763 children attending the lessons given by 61 teachers working at 18…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Products, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
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Maja Milosavljevic; Barry Lee Reynolds – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Research on young English language learners has been gaining popularity in recent years, but to this day remains underdeveloped. The present study aimed to add to this body of research by exploring the effects of visual arts activities implemented via comprehension and compared to more commonly used flashcard activities implemented via…
Descriptors: Altruism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Caiman, Cecilia; Jakobson, Britt – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
The purpose is to contribute knowledge to the field regarding the role of aesthetic experience when young students participate in intertwined science-art activities in science class. More precisely, we scrutinise how science suggestions are shaped in students' processes of imagination when exploring animal's ecology. Data corpus comprises audio…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education, Grade 1
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Zhao, Xiaoying; Angleton, Christie – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2022
Two early childhood researchers from a local public university, have been visiting Mrs. Ball's kindergarten classroom in a small, rural elementary school in the Midwest to read books and discuss characters' identities. In this article, the authors share stories of how they laid the foundation for these conversations and others like it through…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Rural Schools, Gender Issues, Race
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Goldstein, Thalia R.; Lerner, Matthew D.; Winner, Ellen – Child Development, 2017
Children in all cultures readily engage in artistic activities, yet the arts (dance, drama, drawing, and music) have traditionally been marginal topics in the discipline of developmental science. We argue that developmental psychologists cannot afford to ignore such naturalistic activities that involve so many basic phenomena--attention,…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Early Childhood Education
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Elkoshi, Rivka – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
This study was designed to investigate children's audiovisual art, following intuitive listening to complete classical works from different historical periods. The study aimed to examine the effect of different musical stimuli on children's audiovisual output. Two related questions were asked: (1) How do children visually and verbally represent…
Descriptors: Classical Music, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Grade 2
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Thuketana, Nkhensani S.; Westhof, Liesel – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2018
Background: The Foundation Phase in education provides the primary building blocks for children's foundation and development. From personal experiences as educators, we observed that young learners who work together in small groups during art activities gain selfconfidence faster than indecisive learners who work alone. Indecisive learners become…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children
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Hesterman, Sandra; McAuliffe, Gillian – Curriculum and Teaching, 2017
People of different ages, skills, and interests enjoy Zentangle as a visual arts practice. It is adopted as a hobby with the intention of creating an abstract art form comprised of drawn images and using repetitive and structured patterns. Zentangle has an associative language and a method that is easy to learn. Participants of Zentangle report…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Educational Benefits, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
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Sakr, Mona; Connelly, Vince; Wild, Mary – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
Digital technologies have the potential to offer new opportunities for children's expressive arts practices. Although adult expectations surround and shape children's visual art making on paper in the early years classroom, such expectations are not so established in relation to digital art making. So how do children make sense of digital art…
Descriptors: Young Children, Art Activities, Computer Graphics, Art Expression
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Zupancic, Tomaž; Cagran, Branka; Mulej, Matjaž – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2015
This article presents preschool teachers' and assistant teachers' opinions on the importance of selected fields of educational work in kindergartens. The article first highlights the importance of activities expressing artistic creativity within modern curriculums. Then, it presents an empirical study that examines the preschool teachers' and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Curriculum, Art Education
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Huang, Yujia; Li, Hui; Fong, Ricci – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Innovation in pedagogy by technology integration in kindergarten classroom has always been a challenge for most teachers. This design-based research aimed to explore the feasibility of using Augmented Reality (AR) technology in early art education with a focus on the gains and pains of this innovation. A case study was conducted in a typical…
Descriptors: Simulated Environment, Art Education, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
Crawley, Linda – Arts & Activities, 2012
After creating fish-themed art works for the school's Evening of the Arts, the school moved onshore. In Florida, a tropical climate and casual dress is the norm, so students are familiar with Hawaiian "Aloha" shirts. To begin the lesson, the author displayed several Aloha shirts across the front of the art room. She then gives a quick…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Freehand Drawing, Visual Arts
Theodotou, Evgenia – Online Submission, 2015
Involvement is the cornerstone of the educational process, especially in the early years settings. It is a fundamental factor in people's actions particularly when they are deeply concentrated in an activity. However, little research has been conducted in the early years settings, with focus on teaching and learning. This piece of research…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Literacy Education, Learning Activities, Case Studies
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