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Hodde, Stephanie L. – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2023
Drawing from six-months of action research with spectacle theatre-makers in Chicago, this study explores multimodal, expeditionary practice of teaching artists who apprenticed girls through Redmoon Theatre's Dramagirls program. Concepts of new literacy design and aesthetic experience illustrate teaching in socio-semiotic and material worldcraft,…
Descriptors: Drama, Action Research, Theater Arts, Artists
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Méndez Martínez, Emilio; Fernandez-Rio, Javier – Research in Drama Education, 2021
The goal was to assess the effects of a Theatrical Improvisation programme on students' motor creativity. 163 Secondary Education students participated: the experimental group, who experienced a Theatrical Improvisation unit, and the comparison group, who experienced a Drama in Education unit (based on the current Spanish educational law). A…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Program Effectiveness, Creative Activities, Motor Development
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Frazier, Andrea Dawn; Bryant, Camille – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2019
Shaping OurSpace was an urban planning project asking children to propose plans for a housing project phased for redevelopment. Our primary aim was building visual-spatial thinking. McCormack's (1988, 2011) hierarchical framework was used to operationalize visual-spatial thinking, and we believe that embodied cognition served as a vehicle for…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Sensory Experience, Piagetian Theory, Logical Thinking
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Gilman, Sharlene Elinor – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2017
This article describes responses of a group of adolescent student actors and actor alumni involved in anti-bullying skits arising from a critical case study of the Tolerance Troupe from a small rural and suburban borough in Pennsylvania. Seventeen active members and 19 actor alumni participated in semi-structured interviews focusing on what the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Theater Arts, Rural Areas