“It Just Made Me Want to Do Better for Myself”: Performing Arts Education and Academic Performance for African American Male High School Students*
Calvin Wesley Walton | 2020 Walton, C.W. “It Just Made Me Want to Do Better for Myself”: Performing Arts Education and Academic Performance for African American Male High School Students.” International Journal of Education & the Arts, V. 21 No. 13 (2020): 1-42. Abstract: The abstract for this article, as well as the complete article, is available on the International […]
Digital Storytelling as Arts-Inspired Inquiry for Engaging, Understanding and Supporting Indigenous Youth*
Kristen Ali Eglinton, et al. | 2017 Eglinton, K. Ali, Gubrium, A. and Wexler, L. “Digital Storytelling as Arts-Inspired Inquiry for Engaging, Understanding, and Supporting Indigenous Youth.” International Journal of Education & the Arts, V. 18 No. 5 (2017): 1-28. Abstract: The abstract for this article, as well as the complete article, is available on the International Journal of Education & the […]
The Arts and Human Development: Framing a National Research Agenda for the Arts, Lifelong Learning and Individual Well-Being
Hanna, Gay, Michael Patterson, Judy Rollins and Andrea Sherman | 2019 Hanna, Gay, Michael Patterson, Judy Rollins and Andrea Sherman. 2011. “The Arts and Human Development: Framing a National Research Agenda for the Arts, Lifelong Learning and Individual Well-Being.” National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, November. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/TheArtsAndHumanDev.pdf. Abstract: This paper is the result of a convening hosted by […]
Learning about leadership from a visit to the art museum
Kaimal, G., Drescher, J., Fairbank, H., Gonzaga, A., Junkin, J., & White, G.P. | 2016 This qualitative study presents an analysis of how guided visits to an art museum can provide leadership lessons for developing urban school leaders.
Community-engaged arts for older people: Fostering social inclusion
Moody, E. & Phinney, A. | 2012 This ethnographic study explores how communities can be more inclusive and supportive of seniors, specifically through the role of a community-engaged arts program, Arts, Health and Seniors (AHS), developed in Vancouver, Canada.
Sending forth the tiniest ripples of hope that build the mightiest currents: Understanding how to prepare school leaders to interrupt oppressive school practices
Boske, C. | 2012 This case study documents a class in “leadership for social justice,” aimed at preparing educators to initiate change within schools.
Arts Education in America: What the Declines Mean for Arts Participation.
Rabkin, N. and Hedberg, E. | 2011 This report examines the association between arts education and art participation for adults found in the 1992 administration of the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA).
Ecological mural as community reconnection
Kang Song, Y. I. & Gammel, J. A. | 2011 This phenomenological case study documents the Mystic River mural project in the Boston suburb community of Somerville.
Purls of wisdom: A collectivist study of human information behavior in a public library knitting group
Prigoda, E. & McKenzie, P. | 2007 The researchers applied a collectivist theoretical framework to analyze human information behavior (HIB)* and the nontraditional role public libraries play in HIB through a knitting group held in an Ontario Public Library.
The impact of art-making in the university workplace
Upitis, R., Smithrim, K., Garbati, J., & Ogden, H. | 2008 This ethnographic case study documents the experience of social research professionals participating in weekly art-making sessions at Queen’s University.
Extra-curricular music in UK schools: Investigating the aims,experiences, and impact of adolescent musical participation.
Pitts, S. | 2008 This study examines the effects of extracurricular music programming on the likelihood of students continuing with music-based activity later in life, as well as why and in what capacity.
Arts education, the brain, and language (2)
Petitto, L. | 2008 This study examines the impact of intensive arts education on the human brain.
Artist-Teacher Partnerships in Learning: The in/between Spaces of Artist-Teacher Professional Development.
Kind, A., Irwin, R., & Grauer, K. | 2007 In this article, the researchers discuss findings of their study of Learning Through The ArtsTM(LTTA), a cross?Canada initiative that brings artists such as musicians, dancers, storytellers, actors, and visual artists into schools to work with teachers and students.
Using Freirean pedagogy of just IRE to inform critical social learning in arts-informed community education for sexual minorities.
Andre P. Grace and Kristopher Wells | 2007 This study investigates the development and implementation of two arts-based community programs for sexual minority young adults.
What studies of actors and acting can tell us about memory and cognitive functioning.
Noice, H. & Noice T. | 2006 The researchers reviewed 100 protocols of actors’ descriptions of their processes for performing a task and analyzed relevant studies to learn about actors’ script-acquisition strategies.
Evaluation of “FAIR”
Goddard, G. | 2006 This study evaluates a music theatre project in a United Kingdom prison.
Culture and antiracism in adult education: An exploration of the contributions of arts-based learning
Clover, D. E. | 2006 This qualitative comparative case study investigates the value of arts-based programs in facilitating cooperative learning with the aim of addressing pertinent issues within communities.
Storytellers: Women crafting new knowing and better worlds
Wiessner, C.A. | 2005 This narrative study documents the benefits of using creative arts-based storytelling methods to engage adult learners who face histories of stalled educational achievement.
Does arts-based learning enhance leadership? Case studies of creativity-oriented executive institutes
Katz-Buinincontro, J. | 2005 This qualitative case study examines how arts-based executive leadership training institutes foster creative thinking and leadership capacities.
The art of community transformation.
Lowe, S. S. | 2001 This study describes how community arts programs support the development of a sense of community.
Teaching cognitive skill through dance: Evidence for near but not far transfer
Keinanen, M., Hetland, L., & Winner, E. | 2000 Two very small meta-analyses were conducted to test the assertion that dance instruction leads to improvements in reading and nonverbal reasoning.
Listening to music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: Evidence for the “Mozart-Effect.”
Hetland, L. | 2000 This study examines whether listening to music temporarily enhances performance on spatial tasks—a phenomenon known as the “Mozart effect.
A meta-analysis on the effects of music as reinforcement for education/therapy objectives
Standley, J.M. | 1996 The purpose of the study meta-analysis was to examine the effectiveness of music as a reward (or removal of music as a punishment) in education and therapy settings.