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Julia Niederhauser; Corinne Vez; Andrina Jörg; Franziska Bertschy; Christine Künzli David; Georges Pfründer – Environmental Education Research, 2024
There exist already many practical projects that bring together Education for sustainable development (ESD) and artistic practices. They tie in with the transformative potential and the power that are attributed to the field of art in dealing with issues in the context of sustainable development. However, it is currently not clear how this…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Art, Art Activities
Vi-Nhuan Le; Diana Schaack; Michael Gottfried – Elementary School Journal, 2024
There is currently a debate as to whether academic content at kindergarten crowds out time spent in creative arts, free play, and physical activity. Analyzing kindergarten teachers' reports of their instruction from the ECLS-K:2011, this study examined whether core academic content or advanced academic content in math or English language arts…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Creative Activities, Art Activities
Lian Huang; Suzannie K. Y. Leung; Jenny Wanyi Li; Zhenhua Wu – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Comprehensive art education (CAE) can be an effective way to develop children's creativity development. However, little is known about how CAE is implemented in kindergarten classrooms in China. The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of CAE activity implementation. To assess the effectiveness of CAE in terms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Zohreh Ghasemzadeh Namaghi – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This article explores the integration of the art studio framework developed by Harvard University's Project Zero into science education and investigates its influence on the academic achievements of third-grade students. This study involved a cohort of 140 third-grade students from a primary school in Iran, 70 of whom were students assigned to an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Hailey McAfee-Scimone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation describes a project to develop an art-based curriculum to teach young elementary school-age children social and emotional skills in the classroom based on the experiences of experts in the field of elementary education. Social-emotional learning (SEL) focuses on several key concepts including skills in interpersonal…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Art Activities, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students
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)
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
Meghan J. Rivera – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate if a mindfulness mandala coloring activity reduces a student's anxiety about reading. Reading is a fundamental skill for all other academic success, making proficient reading skills necessary. This study investigates if a reduction in a third grade student's reading anxiety results in changes to oral…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Reading Ability
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
Moffett, Chris – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2021
The standard educational gesture--in defense of its perceived secondary status relative to the "real world"--is to embed everything within its purview, such that even conceiving education as an art becomes a pedagogic imperative. In Anji County, China, we find an early childhood program (Anji Play) that uncouples play from this hierarchy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Play, Cultural Influences
Park, Hayon – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2021
In this article, I explore politics in children's art practices that divert from normalized accounts of children's art and lives, especially those that seek to compartmentalize the child, children, and children's artmaking, grounded on the ideas of French philosopher Jacques Rancière--namely, the distribution of the sensible, politics, and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Kindergarten, Painting (Visual Arts), Art Education
Acer, Dilek; Gözen, Göksu – Education 3-13, 2020
Picture book illustrations can provide the opportunity for critical examination of a work of art. There is a growing body of research focusing on how we can respond creatively to the illustrations in picture books as art objects. This study aimed to reveal how children interpret art elements based on various artistic techniques within picture…
Descriptors: Art Education, Picture Books, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Kahuroa, Raella; Mitchell, Linda; Ng, Olivia; Johns, Terina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
As the COVID-19 virus has spread worldwide, much attention has been paid to its impact on the health and wellbeing of adults, with less attention to how the virus has impacted on young children. This article draws on documentation and video data from a kindergarten in Aotearoa New Zealand. It discusses the working theories of 4 year-old children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Preschool Children
Kaminski, Jennifer A.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
There is anecdotal evidence that many elementary teachers integrate mathematics lessons and art activities by having students first make colorful, rich material that is subsequently used in an instructional activity. However, it is unclear whether such activities effectively promote learning and transfer of mathematical concepts. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Integrated Activities, Art Education
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