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Bradley, David – Opinion, The Journal of the South Australian English Teachers' Assn., 1968
A strictly literary study of drama can be misleading, but plays brought alive through dramatic activities and productions may be the most profitable core of the secondary-school humanities program. The practical study of drama requires the student's active imagination, self-discipline, creative and positive responses to situations, improvisation,…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creative Teaching, Curriculum Development
Rivas, Frank W. – 1974
For nine years the National Assessment of Education Progress has attempted to measure behaviors that are assumed to correlate with sensitivity to music and analytic skills typically taught in the classroom. These skills included musical performance, ability to use traditional notation, ability to discriminate and label instruments and voices,…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Evaluation
Zelmer, A. C. Lynn – 1973
Basic information on media forms which are commonly encountered by community groups is presented. The work as a whole is designed to serve as a reference manual for community organizations and volunteer groups which are inexperienced with respect to media and which lack the resources or the desire to hire professional experts; the emphasis…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Communications, Community, Community Development
Silber, Kenneth H.; Ewing, Gerald W. – 1971
The authors define environmental simulation as the selection, manipulation and/or modification of any number and combination of the five senses to create an experience which simulates a real or imaginary environment. They see the goal of environmental simulation as producing affective-cognitive-psychomotor outcomes which can be set, modified,…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Aids, Demonstration Centers, Facility Requirements
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. – 1970
This document describes the activities and programs of several national agencies for the arts. It discusses the following branches of the arts: architecture, dance, education, literature, music, public media, theatre, and visual arts. It also discusses the financial status of these agencies and public and private contributions to their funds. In…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Art Activities, Creative Art, Creative Writing
Youngblood, Gene – 1970
Today, our environment is created more by television and cinema than by nature. Our view of what human nature is and might be is conditioned by what we see in those media. Films which make use of traditional genres only reinforce traditional views. They do not force us to new ones. But new filmmakers are creating "synaesthetic" cinema, which…
Descriptors: Animation, Audiences, Bionics, Computer Graphics
Oregon Univ., Eugene. Oregon Elementary English Project. – 1971
These curriculum guides are designed to introduce drama to students at the fifth and sixth grade level. The teacher's guide for each of the two grade levels presents 41 lessons. Each lesson includes a description of objectives and various exercises, including movement warm-ups, concentration warm-ups, descriptions of the character type to be…
Descriptors: Acting, Curriculum Guides, Drama, Dramatic Play
Nye, Russel – 1970
This book is a study of certain of the popular arts in American society, that is, the arts in their customarily accepted genres. "Popular" is interpreted to mean "generally dispersed and approved"--descriptive of those artistic productions which express the taste and understanding of the majority and which are free of control, in content and…
Descriptors: Art, Art Products, Attitudes, Cultural Activities
Ashton, Dudley, Ed.; Irey, Charlotte, Ed. – 1972
This booklet represents an effort to assist teachers and administrators in the professional planning of dance facilities and equipment. Three chapters present the history of dance facilities, provide recommended dance facilities and equipment, and offer some adaptations of dance facilities and equipment, for elementary, secondary and college level…
Descriptors: Building Design, Colleges, Controlled Environment, Dance
Oregon Univ. System, Eugene. Office of the Chancellor. – 2001
The Oregon Proficiency-Based Admission Standards System (PASS) is based on standards that describe the academic skills and knowledge students need to demonstrate for acceptance into any of Oregon's seven public universities. The Oregon University System (OUS) created PASS in 1993 for three reasons: (1) PASS aligns college admission with Oregon's…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Admission, Competency Based Education, Dance
Wolf, Thomas – 1991
This handbook for organizing performance presentations, designed for professional organizations and volunteer or not-profit organizations, focuses on how to manage a presenting organization. The volume features 40 specific rules to guide groups presenting performances. The rules include: (1) get organized, (2) know the law, (3) remember performers…
Descriptors: Administration, Art, Artists, Arts Centers
Bauernschub, Mary Beth – 2002
A book called "The Shakespeare Stealer" (Gary Blackwood) is about a young boy during the time of Shakespeare who sneaks into the Globe Theater and meets the Bard. The book has been turned into a play. The five lessons in this curriculum unit revolve around "The Shakespeare Stealer." The lessons in the unit support many major…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intermediate Grades, Language Role, Learning Activities
Guzman, Bianca L.; Schlehofer-Sutton, Michele M.; Casad, Bettina J.; Villanueva, Christina M.; Stritto, Mary Ellen Dello; Feria, Aida – 2001
This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Community Awareness Motivation Partnership (C.A.M.P.) theater program, a one-hour sex education program for adolescents. Four hundred and twenty adolescents between the ages of 13 and 19 participated in a repeated measures pre/post test design study. The majority of this sample is Latino. Results…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Modification, Contraception, Drama
Delaware State Dept. of Public Instruction, Dover. – 1997
This guide to content standards in the visual and performing arts in the state of Delaware is the work of a curriculum framework commission whose members have crafted clear standards for development of curriculum that will prepare Delaware's students to become effective, productive citizens. Standards-based education reform is an initiative for…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Art Education, Dance Education, Drama
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1998
The purpose of New Jersey's Visual and Performing Arts Standards is to improve student achievement in arts education, not arts-as-entertainment, not art-assembly projects, not art-as-activity. An education in the arts requires curricular scope and sequence and the intellectual rigor of experiential learning. The Visual and Performing Arts…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Art Education, Curriculum Development, Dance Education
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