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Rinde, Felicity Burbridge; Kenny, Ailbhe – Music Education Research, 2021
This article addresses migrant children's entries into new education systems from the vantage point of musical participation. Through an ethnographic study of one Norwegian primary school, it investigates what scope for musical participation is available to newly arrived migrant children in a dedicated introductory class, and how their engagement…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Music Education, Elementary School Students, Student School Relationship
Bernstein, Carol L. – Journal of Research Practice, 2007
This essay uses the concept of the constellation to characterize the relations among interdisciplinarity, cultural memory, and comparative literature. To do so entails: (a) reviewing the paradoxical interdisciplinarity of comparative literature, (b) tracing its establishment at a liberal arts college (Bryn Mawr College, USA), and (c) describing a…
Descriptors: Pantomime, Preservation, Archives, Foreign Countries
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Keifer-Boyd, Karen; Amburgy, Patricia M.; Knight, Wanda B. – Art Education, 2007
The term "visual culture" includes all manifestations of cultural life that are significantly expressed through visual aspects and interpreted through individual and shared experiences. Visual culture includes art, cultural practices, media images, and other forms. However, teaching visual culture involves more than extending the range of visual…
Descriptors: Art Teachers, Art Education, Memory, Cultural Influences
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Raines, Shirley C.; Isbell, Rebecca T. – Childhood Education, 1994
Discusses how the storyteller dolls and myths of the Pueblo Indians illustrate the important influence that folktales, legends, and myths can have on children's language development, cultural appreciation, memory, imagination, and values. (MDM)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, Children, Cultural Awareness
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Harris, Richard Jackson; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1992
Examines some effects of culturally based knowledge on memory for stories about people performing common activities. Results with monocultural U.S. college students (n=176) and Mexican citizens (n=57) suggest that any theory of the effects of script-based knowledge on memory must consider the cultural origin of the knowledge. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness