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Chaplin, Tarin – Teaching Theatre, 1992
Discusses the problem of stress and the performing artist. Suggests the need for programs, attitudes, demands, and lives that balance personal well-being with professional endeavors. (SR)
Descriptors: Art Education, Dance Education, Higher Education, Secondary Education
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Stinson, Susan W. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1993
Summarizes results of an interpretive study exploring how students in one high school subject (dance) made sense of their experience. Most participants found school restrictive and uncaring. Feelings about a subject were closely connected to students' feelings about the teachers. Dance permitted more positive relationships with teachers and…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Educational Environment, High Schools, Interviews
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Dietzel, Rebecca – Journal of Dance Education, 2005
Based on the author's experience as a teacher in a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) program, the author offers some ideas to ease the transition from the private studio to a BFA professional preparatory program. As a teacher in the Ailey School and Fordham University BFA program, the author has seen many students work their way through this challenging…
Descriptors: Fine Arts, High School Seniors, Dance, Higher Education
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Bannon, Fiona – Research in Dance Education, 2004
This paper traces an experience of designing and conducting qualitative research in dance education. The primary aim is to highlight the importance of giving consideration to research methodologies in the emergence of personal research practice. Making decisions about what method/s to use will ultimately direct the engagement with any study,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Dance Education, Research Methodology
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Callahan, Jamie L. – Research in Dance Education, 2005
This study reports the findings of a qualitative study of competitive West Coast Swing dancers that incorporated both ethnographic and phenomenological techniques. A modern variation of the original Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing is typically learned in dance studios and non-profit clubs. The West Coast Swing community can be considered a community…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Incidental Learning, Informal Education, Dance Education
McDonald, Nan L.; Fisher, Douglas – Guilford Publications, 2006
Accessible and hands-on yet grounded in research, this book addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of integrating literacy instruction and the arts in grades K-8. Even teachers without any arts background will gain the skills they need to bring music, drama, visual arts, and dance into their classrooms. Provided are a wealth of specific…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Curriculum Development, Visual Arts, Art Education
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Gould, Elizabeth – International Journal of Music Education, 2006
For philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the work of philosophy consists of affirmatively and artistically creating and reworking concepts in response to real-life problems in an ongoing process that invites new perspectives and ways of thinking. Carol Matthews's music composition pedagogical practices reflect these processes, arguing that they demonstrate…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Music Teachers, Elementary School Students
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Giguere, Miriam – Journal of Dance Education, 2006
This study examines the cognitive experiences of children as they engage in creative projects in both dance and poetry. The data includes interviews with fifth graders from an elementary School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, about their lived experience of writing poetry and creating dances. Students interviewed for this study participated in a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Language Arts, Grade 5, Poetry
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Johnston, Dale – Research in Dance Education, 2006
Authoritarian teaching practices in ballet inhibit the use of private speech. This paper highlights the critical importance of private speech in the cognitive development of young ballet students, within what is largely a non-verbal art form. It draws upon research by Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky and contemporary socioculturalists, to…
Descriptors: Dance, Authoritarianism, Teaching Styles, Dance Education
Glass, Don; Palmer Wolf, Dennie; Molloy, Traci; Rodriguez, Aamir; Horowitz, Robert; Burnaford, Gail; Mertens, Donna M. – Online Submission, 2008
This collection of essays explores various arts education-specific evaluation tools, as well as considers Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the inclusion of people with disabilities in the design of evaluation instruments and strategies. Prominent evaluators Donna M. Mertens, Robert Horowitz, Dennie Palmer Wolf, and Gail Burnaford are…
Descriptors: Art Education, Evaluation, Access to Education, Disabilities
Bodoczky, Istvan – Eurydice, 2008
This paper focuses on Hungary's arts and cultural education. The cultural area "arts" has the following sub-areas: music, dance and drama, visual culture, film and media. In accordance with the contemporary approach to art, these are all independent branches of art. Although they have a number of common features, they are very different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Cultural Education, Educational Administration
Cinque, Gaetano; Meconi, Rolando – Eurydice, 2008
This paper focuses on Italy's arts and cultural education. The Ministry of Education is responsible for setting the national curriculum and for the cultural axes. The decisions on all the cultural and creative aims for each type of education are taken at national level and at the level of each individual school. At national level the guidelines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Cultural Education, Educational Administration
Pitri, Eliza – Eurydice, 2008
This paper focuses on Cyprus's arts and cultural education. The Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture is responsible for setting the aims for cultural and creative dimensions of education. Decisions about the creation of the curriculum related to culture and creativity within education, as well as the arts curriculum are made at a central…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Cultural Education, Educational Administration
Lajdova, Andrea; Slavik, Jan – Eurydice, 2008
This paper focuses on Czech Republic's arts and cultural education. The decisions related to cultural and creative dimension of education are made at the central level, by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The Ministry is responsible for the development of the Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education (FEP BE). One of the aims…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Cultural Education, Educational Administration
van der Ree, Raymond – Eurydice, 2008
This paper focuses on the Netherland's arts and cultural education. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science is responsible for setting the aims for cultural and creative dimensions of formal education. Decisions related to the implementation of arts curriculum are made at school level. The cultural and creative aims of the whole curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Cultural Education, Educational Administration
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