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Annie Sansonetti – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This article recounts a day at Mexican writer, activist, educator, and performance artist Lia García's "elementary school": a "school" that takes the form of invited performances in other teachers' classrooms. It studies García's staging of an applied theatre workshop at an elementary school in November 2020 with her children's…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Workshops, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries
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Dinham, Judith; Williams, Paul – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
While the known health impacts of sedentary lifestyles have focused attention on children's outdoor activity, the development of their physical literacy -- the physiological, social, cultural, cognitive, expressive, and psychological dimensions of their physicality -- is much less in focus. Developing children's physical literacy is embedded in…
Descriptors: Children, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers
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Johnson Butterfield, Alice K.; Yeneabat, Mulu; Moxley, David P. – Children & Schools, 2016
Asset-based community development (ABCD) is a promising practice for communities to engage in self-determination through the efforts residents invest in identifying community assets, framing and documenting the issues communities face, and taking action to advance quality of life. The ABCD literature does not report on the application of ABCD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Community Resources, Self Determination
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Dunn, Julie; Bundy, Penny; Stinson, Madonna – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2015
Emotion is a complex and important aspect of participatory drama experience. This is because drama work of this kind provokes emotional responses to both actual and dramatic worlds. This paper identifies two key features of participatory drama that influence the generation and experience of emotion: commitment and connection. These features are…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Emotional Response, Emotional Experience, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Mpella, Maria; Evaggelinou, Christina; Koidou, Eirini; Tsigilis, Nikolaos – International Journal of Special Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a theatrical play programme on social skills development for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Six children with ASD were selected by purposive sampling (M=10.6 years), and their typically developing peers (N=132) (M=10.3 years), attending general primary schools in Greece…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Play, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Schiller, Wendy – Early Child Development and Care, 2005
"Children?s Voices" is a longitudinal research project to document and understand children's perceptions of live arts performance and the impact on their teachers and school communities. The research conducted in South Australia with 135 5?12-year-olds in four schools involves collaboration between the South Australian Department of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Childhood Attitudes, Children
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Roebers, Claudia M.; Gelhaar, Tim; Schneider, Wolfgang – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
The current study investigated the influence of presentation modality (live, video, and slide show) on children's memory, suggestibility, recognition, and metamemorial monitoring processes. A total of 270 children in three age groups (5- and 6-year-olds, 7- and 8-year-olds, and 9- and 10-year-olds) watched a magic show and were questioned about it…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology), Videotape Recordings, Self Concept