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Ruokonen, Inkeri; Eldridge, Laurie – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2017
The aim of this case study was to discover how three Sami artists present their culture in their arts and how their art grows from Sami traditions. Our first purpose was to find out how they use their art forms' roots to create new ideas. The other purpose of this study was to bring into discussion the importance of a minority culture's arts in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artists, Indigenous Populations, Ethnic Groups
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Nevanen, Saila; Juvonen, Antti; Ruismäki, Heikki – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
More than 98 percent of children in Finland attend preschool, where different kinds of projects are carried out in order to strengthen the children's abilities. This article focuses on the effects of one arts education project from a school readiness point of view. The main question was, How did the Helsinki arts education project affect the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, School Readiness, Program Effectiveness
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Freedman, Kerry; Heijnen, Emiel; Kallio-Tavin, Mira; Karpati, Andrea; Papp, Laszlo – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2013
This article is the report of a large-scale, international research project involving focus group interviews of adolescent and young adult members of a variety of self-initiated visual culture groups in five urban areas (Amsterdam, Budapest, Chicago, Helsinki, and Hong Kong). Each group was established by young people around their interests in the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Art Education, Art Activities, Learning Experience
Rasanen, Marjo – 1999
This research project outlines the role of art education as a part of the professional identity of people working in different fields of art and education and explains the relationship between the productive and receptive dimensions of art education. Also, the project presents a theory on the relation between visual and verbal conceptualization.…
Descriptors: Art Education, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Cultural Context