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Federica Liberti – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2024
By using the feminist imaginary as a pedagogical tool for resistance and change, an experience of activism within the university context in Naples, Italy is explored. The article focuses on the potential transformative power of art as catalysis for deeper level emotional and spiritual learning transformation. The aim is trying to inspire critical…
Descriptors: Feminism, Imagination, Social Change, Art
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Nicole Leggett – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
When first released in 2009, the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) recognised intentional teaching as one of its eight core practices (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (2009). In 2022, the EYLF was revised to include a broader understanding of 'intentionality', encompassing both the educator and the child…
Descriptors: Intention, Teaching Methods, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Collaboration
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Gurjar, Nandita – Childhood Education, 2021
Italian makerspace is based on the principles of the Reggio Emilia approach founded by Loris Malaguzzi, in which the environment plays a critical role in children's development. Malaguzzi believed that the makerspace is the third teacher (joining family and classroom teachers), and children express themselves through a "hundred…
Descriptors: Child Development, Creativity, Reggio Emilia Approach, Preschool Education
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Biasutti, Michele; Habe, Katarina – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
The current study focuses on motor creativity in children by analyzing the factors related to teaching dance improvisation. A qualitative methodology is adopted to collect the expert dance instructors' conceptions of using dance improvisation in their teaching practice. Participants took part in semi-structured interviews that included questions…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Creative Activities, Holistic Approach, Teaching Methods
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Chandler, Michael D. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2018
Improvisation is an area of interest to both music education researchers and music educators alike. The purpose of this literature review was to examine extant studies related to improvisation at the elementary level. Selected research included the nature of improvisation, the amount of instructional time and activity type used, the development of…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Music, Music Education, Elementary School Students
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Graham, Mark; Moore, Stephen – Childhood Education, 2018
Innovation and learning come together in a vibrant manner during dynamic arts education classes led by teachers who understand the importance of collaboration and student improvisation.
Descriptors: Art Education, Creative Activities, Elementary Education, Innovation
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Luzzatto, Paola; Bruno, Teresa; Cosco, Marianna; Del Curatolo, Annamaria; Frigenti, Franca; Macchioni, Silvia – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2017
This article describes a 10-session group art therapy program for people with physical and neurological disabilities. This program, the DIS-ART Creative Journey, was adapted from the Creative Journey used with cancer patients, and was tested in Italy by 4 art therapists. The 5-step structure of each session and the 10 facilitating techniques used…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Creativity, Foreign Countries, Physical Disabilities
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Mancaniello, Maria Rita – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
In the Italian prison reality, the school activities of every order and degree have been guaranteed by law since the end of the 70s of the last century. The present contribution intends to stimulate a critical reflection on the dimensions of educational action in complex social situations such as that of prison. He wants to offer an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
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Tavernise, Assunta; Bertacchini, Francesca; Pantano, Pietro; Bilotta, Eleonora – Research on Education and Media, 2019
In this work, a Storytelling FabLab has been designed for the realization of virtual performances on a Shakesperian play in an elementary school. In this FabLab, many elements have been digitally manipulated: text, audio files, virtual actors on a 3D stage, and 3D Greek masks. Learning of contents and motivation have been assessed and compared to…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Elementary School Students, Student Motivation, Computer Uses in Education
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Gostoli, Sara; Cerini, Veronica; Piolanti, Antonio; Rafanelli, Chiara – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
The aim of this research was to investigate the relationships between creativity, subclinical bipolar disorder symptomatology, and psychological well-being. The study method was of descriptive, correlational type. Significant tests were performed using multivariate regression analysis. Students of the 4th grade of 6 different Italian colleges…
Descriptors: Creativity, Depression (Psychology), Mental Disorders, Well Being
Gaudino, Ann C. – Online Submission, 2018
The methods and music of American Professor Joan Yakkey have had an international influence on the music education of elementary and secondary students. Yakkey, a graduate of the High School of Performing Arts and Queens College in New York City, went to Italy to teach music in the 1970's. Italy, a country historically rich in music, was…
Descriptors: Music Education, Creativity, Freehand Drawing, Singing
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Luchetta, Sara – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
Drawing from the importance of narrative inquiry in contemporary geographical reasoning and teaching, this paper focuses on some practices set around the relationship between maps and literature. Reader-generated maps, maps produced starting from the reading of a literary text, are at the core of a reflection on the potentialities of literary…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Reading Achievement, Concept Mapping, Geography Instruction
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Massimiliano, Palmiero – High Ability Studies, 2015
Age-related changes in divergent thinking and creative objects production were investigated in 150 native Italian speakers, divided into six age groups, each one comprised 25 participants: young (20-29), young adult (30-39), middle aged (40-49), adult-old (50-59), old (60-69), and old-old (70-80). Two tasks were used: the alternative uses task,…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Age Differences, Creative Activities, Young Adults
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Oliva, Gaetano – World Journal of Education, 2015
Education to Theatricality as pedagogical and artistic research is experienced by almost twenty years in Italy in laboratories and projects organized in collaboration with universities, schools, theaters, educational centers, cultural centers, educational and social services, associations. Education to Theatricality is a science that includes…
Descriptors: Drama Workshops, Creative Activities, Creativity, Theater Arts
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Agnoli, Sergio; Corazza, Giovanni E.; Runco, Mark A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
This article presents the structure and the composition of a newly developed multifaceted test battery for the measurement of creativity within scientific and artistic domains. By integrating existing procedures for the evaluation of creativity, the new battery promises to become a comprehensive assessment of creativity, encompassing both…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Measurement, Convergent Thinking
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