An interview with Shawn Kinley, teacher and performer of improvisational theatre, whose work has taken him to 52 countries across five continents over a 30-year career. His diverse teaching experience includes working with scientists, opera companies, the military, family therapists, and more. Shawn shares his thoughts about the need for the…

This article embraces the developing discourse around Deaf and disability art and uses it to recognize and discuss the art produced out of Project Re·Vision's (Re·Vision) arts-based research workshops--multimedia storytelling workshops and theater workshops with D/deaf and disabled people--and think through the role these workshops played in the…

Workman Arts, a Toronto-based theatre and visual arts company with a 20-year history, provides a rich site for re-imagining stigmatised representations of mental illness. Writing and performing against a long tradition of representing people with mental illnesses as incoherent speakers and visually different, company members seek to re-imagine…

Educational researchers have examined the effect of achievement goals on student performance, and suggest that both mastery goals and performance-approach goals are beneficial, whereas performance-avoidance goals are harmful. Recent research proposes that these results may not be generalized in the domain of music. The purpose of the present study…

In a Canadian project, elementary teachers and professional artists collaborated to integrate artists' work into the curriculum. Teachers had opportunities to share ideas and concerns in learning communities and to develop leadership skills for arts education. (SK)