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Download full textRomero, Julie – 1996
This paper focuses on two questions: (1) Can visual arts be an effective way for students to express what they have learned in social studies?; and (2) Can creative activity improve motivation, participation, attitude, and enhance learning in social studies? The sample for study was drawn from 75 fifth-graders in 3 classes in a school located in a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Cultural Activities
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. Research Div. – 1981
Several specific objectives have had wide recognition in the arts community, namely: to broaden the audience for the performing arts, to determine the applicability of sophisticated tools of marketing to the problem of generating demand for the arts, to find the best predictors of arts attendance, and to develop strategies that will appeal to…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audiences, Cultural Activities, Demography
Matthews, Catherine E.; Smith, Walter S. – 1991
The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that if selected instruction materials were more culturally-relevant, Native American students should be more motivated and better able to make connections between school learning and their own lives. This increased motivation and improved connections between school learning and their own…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Activities, Elementary School Science, Instructional Materials
Abreu, Dan; And Others – 1987
Research presented in this report focuses on data obtained through the 1982 and 1985 "Survey of Public Participation in the Arts" and relates to musical theater, operetta, and opera attendance. The objectives of this study were to focus on those findings which might help opera or musical theater organizations attract and understand…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Attendance, Attendance Patterns
Peer reviewedDobruskin, M. E. – Russian Education and Society, 1995
Maintains that college students have been the object of repeated sociological research in countries formerly in the Soviet Union (USSR). Reports on a study of more than 3,000 Russian students and professors. Includes five tables indicating student attitudes toward religion, student behavior, and participation in outside-of-class cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. Research Div. – 1981
This report examines the economic impact of cultural institutions on their communities in Columbus (Ohio), Minneapolis/ St. Paul (Minnesota), St. Louis (Missouri), Salt Lake City (Utah), San Antonio (Texas), and Springfield (Illinois). For each city, tables are included which list data in the following categories: (1) audience per capita spending;…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Arts Centers, Audiences, Case Studies
