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Michael Scott; Kristin Natalier – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
It is widely argued that the arts have a range of cultural, economic, and educational benefits. However, under state austerity arts curricula are devalued in favour of industry skills. To address this gap in arts education, a new type of student focussed informal arts engagement program has emerged. This article draws on a qualitative study of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Learner Engagement, Academic Aspiration, Student Attitudes
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Angela Hadjipanteli – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
The development of student teachers' beliefs about good teaching needs to be integral to their education programmes. This study attempts to scrutinise the contribution of a theatre education course to the conceptualisation of a group of eight student primary teachers' notion of good teaching and a teacher's ethos. The findings reveal that, within…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Instructional Effectiveness
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Jones, Jonathan P. – Teaching Artist Journal, 2018
Social change develops over time, but it begins with individual and collective actions by real people. In the current American atmosphere of resistance, activism, and art-ivism, what are the tools that artists can employ to motivate audience members to act? This article illuminates the call to action, an essential element of persuasive speaking…
Descriptors: Social Change, Activism, Theater Arts, Performance
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Weber, Joanne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
Arts-based data from a theatre play, "Apple Time," are explored in order to disrupt binarized diversity discourses dominating deaf education in a diasporic community located in a small city in Saskatchewan. Deaf education is demarcated by two camps of professionals: those who promote the development of spoken English through the use of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Theater Arts, Deafness, Teaching Methods
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Maloney, Esther – Research in Drama Education, 2022
As youth media creation programmes proliferate, educators and practitioners are learning how to develop stories that interrupt hegemony and point to new ways of being. This research, carried out in an ethnically diverse middle school, highlights the way digital storytelling as an applied theatre praxis brought complexity to student work. The role…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Information Technology, Urban Schools, Middle School Students
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Gara, Taylor V.; Farkas, George; Brouillette, Liane – Arts Education Policy Review, 2022
It has been asserted that the test-based accountability of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) increased instruction in tested subject areas reading and math, leading to reductions in arts education. We tested this using two waves of data, before and after NCLB implementation, in a difference-in-differences design. The analyses indicated that the total…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Accountability, Educational Policy
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Buckley, Eleanor; Pellicano, Elizabeth; Remington, Anna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
This research examined whether professional mentoring could have a positive effect on the occupational self-efficacy of autistic performing arts professionals. We compared the outcomes of one group who received mentoring to a waitlist control group. 26 participants took part in this study: 15 autistic mentees and 11 mentors, three of whom were…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Theater Arts, Mentors, Foreign Countries
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Glass, Don; Schulz Begle, Annie K.; Miller, Jenelle M. – SAGE Open, 2022
Field trips to museums and performing arts centers are not a frequent activity for most students, so how do cultural organizations learn to make the most of these limited but potentially valuable "gateway experiences" toward increased arts participation? This cross-sectional study examines the engagement of students during a performance…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Diversity, Field Trips, Theater Arts
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George Theoharis; Christy Ashby; Nate Franz; Sarah Gentile; Corey Williams; Ben Steuerwalt; Meredith Devennie – School-University Partnerships, 2022
This article focuses on the research-practice partnership between Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and Syracuse University (SU) and the work to conduct an equity audit. Syracuse, the city at the center of this collaborative equity audit, is one of the most hyper-segregated cities in the nation, with one of the highest concentrations of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, High Schools, Educational Opportunities, Access to Education
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Ronel Kleynhans; Petrus Nel; Kobus Maree – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
The field of performing arts presents an often unpredictable area for career development. Yet many people are drawn to this field as their chosen career trajectory. This study examines the life-career experiences that shape performing artists' trajectories within the framework of career construction theory. Using a qualitative multiple case study…
Descriptors: Career Development, Artists, Vocational Interests, Success
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Nikolina Ivanova-Bell – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
In recent years, the opportunities for academic libraries to engage as a partner in digital initiatives in academia have expanded significantly. The traditional focus on digitization, preservation, and dissemination of collections has developed and shifted considerably, bringing new strategies for adequately serving the changed academic needs, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Acoustics
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Selina Busby; Max Dean; Peter Mwashi Litonde; Paul Sutton – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This article responds to Olof Franck's vision of a less didactic and more creative approach to Education for Sustainable Development. We consider how a multidisciplinary applied theatre project, bringing together Earth Sciences, Ancient Rock Art, storytelling, digital technology, and drama education knowledges and techniques can foster a more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama Education, Archaeology, Sustainable Development
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Ellen Gerdes; Yining Lin – Journal of Dance Education, 2024
This study investigates opportunities for and challenges faced by Chinese dance and movement educators at the higher education level in the United States, drawing from interviews with seven influential Chinese dance and movement academics. The article probes the boundaries of what is considered Chinese dance in the US context, including Chinese…
Descriptors: Dance, Dance Education, Opera, Asian Culture
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Landay, Eileen; Heath, Shirley Brice – Theory Into Practice, 2021
Schools, community organizations, and major cultural entities can address educational inequities by engaging parents and children in arts processes, projects, and performances. Three cases featuring work in the arts show promise in contributing to the positive academic and social development of learners across the socio-economic spectrum. Learning…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Family School Relationship, School Community Relationship, Art Activities
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Bartley, Sarah – Research in Drama Education, 2021
Brighton People's Theatre and Slung Low are at the forefront of the contemporary people's theatre movement in the United Kingdom. I examine these companies and the broader utility of a people's theatre, historically concerned with working class representation and/or performances of civic unity, in the context of economic austerity and inequality.…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Economic Climate, Working Class, Social Differences
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