Media arts: Arts education for a digital age
Peppler, K. | 2010 The researcher draws upon over three years of extensive field study at a Computer Clubhouse (media arts studio) in south Los Angeles where underprivileged youth ranging in age from eight to 18 have access to programming environments utilizing graphic, music, and video production software.
Multimedia arts learning in an activity system: New literacies for at risk children.
Betts, J.D. | 2006 The Multimedia Arts Education Program (MAEP) was an after school program for low income, middle school youth in Tucson, AZ.
The Effects of Arts Integration on Long-Term Retention of Content and Student Engagement
Mariale Hardiman, Luke Rinne and Julia Yarmolinskaya. | 2020 Mariale Hardiman, Luke Rinne and Julia Yarmolinskaya, “The Effects of Arts Integration on Long-Term Retention of Content and Student Engagement,” Mind, Brain and Education 8, no. 3 (2014): 144-148. Abstract: Previous studies of arts integration ― the pedagogical practice of teaching through the arts ― suggest its value for enhancing cognitive, academic and social skills. […]
The Effects of Arts Integration on Long-Term Retention of Academic Content
Hardiman, Mariale, Luke Rinne, and Julia Yarmolinskaya | 2019 Hardiman, Mariale, Luke Rinne, and Julia Yarmolinskaya. “The Effects of Arts Integration on Long-Term Retention of Academic Content.” International Mind, Brain, and Education Society 8, no. 3 (2014): 144-148. Abstract: This study reports the results of a small, preliminary classroom-based experiment that tested effects of arts integration on long-term retention of content. The researchers designed […]
Cross-Study Findings: A View into a Decade of Arts Integration
Duma, A. L., & Silverstein, L. B. | 2014 The Kennedy Center’s CETA (Changing Education Through the Arts) program is a professional development partnership designed to support teachers’ employment of arts integration practices in their classrooms.
Creating destiny: Youth, arts and social change
Lauren M. Stevenson | 2011 This ethnographic study examines how a company of high-school-aged artists in a community arts program, makes social change while creating an original hip hop, modern dance, and theater production.
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).
Partnerships between schools and the professional arts sector: Evaluation of impact on student outcomes
Imms, W., Jeanneret, N., & Stevens-Ballenger, J. | 2011 This study examines how arts partnerships impact student engagement, student voice, social learning, creative skills, and arts-related knowledge and skills; the five student outcomes linked to the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS).
Music lessons and intelligence: A relation mediated by executive functions
Degé, F., Kubicek, C., & Schwarzer, G. | 2011 Noting several studies that have previously identified a positive association between musical instruction and intelligence, researchers in this study examine whether the relationship between musical study and intelligence may be mediated or influenced by a third variable, executive function—including abilities such as planning, focus, memory, task switching, and problem solving that control cognitive processes.
On the road to Durban: Using empowerment evaluation to grow teacher’s arts and culture curriculum knowledge
Glass, Donald L. | 2008 South Africa engaged in an outcomes-based curricular innovation that included Arts and Culture as a new subject area for all young people.
Studio thinking: How visual arts teaching can promote disciplined habits of mind
Winner, E., Hetland, L., Veenema, S., Sheridan, K., Palmer, P., Locher, I., et al. | 2006 This study first provides an overview of prior meta-analytical research about the notion of transfer between arts learning and non-arts domains, concluding that with only few exceptions, transfer could not be proved because existing studies yield insufficient evidence.
Community-based arts program for youth in low-income communities: A multi-method evaluation
Wright, R., John, L., Alaggia, R., & Sheel, J. | 2006 The article presents findings from a quasi-experimental evaluation of the National Arts and Youth Demonstration Project (NAYDP).
Learning in the visual arts and the worldviews of young children
Catterall, J., & Peppler, K. | 2007 Researchers used a quasi-experimental research design with pre-and post-test measures and treatment and control groups to investigate the effects of rich and sustained arts instruction on participating inner-city children’s self-efficacy (their sense of control of their surroundings) and creative thinking.
Going on beyond zebra: A middle school and community-based arts organization collaborate for change
Krensky, B. | 2001 This ethnographic case study examines the impact of an arts-integrated service-learning project on students’ social responsibility.
Art and community: Creating knowledge through service in dance
Ross, J. | 2000 Sixty at-risk and incarcerated adolescents participated in jazz and hip-hop dance classes for ten weeks.
Incorporating an Image-Based, Multi-Model Pedagogy Into Global Citizenship Education
Kang, R., Mehranian, Y., & Hyyatt, C. | 2018 Drawing on theories and practices in literacy education, and in particular, the concepts of semiotics and transmediation, this research explores the possibility of arts-based experiences —such as image theater — in facilitating transformation of thinking in the context of global citizenship education.
“I made myself”: Playmaking as a pedagogy of change with urban youth
Nelson, B. | 2011 Applied Drama and Theater (AD/T) addresses local conditions and perspectives by teaming drama instructors and community members to write, produce, and perform plays.
Educational research: The art of problem solving.
Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. | 2010 This study is an evaluation of the Solomon R.
The impacts of the presence of the cultural dimension in schools on teachers and artists
Héloïse Côté | 2009 This study examines the cultural partnerships of teachers and artists participating in Quebec’s Culture in the Schools program to expand the presence of cultural dimensions (the arts, creativity, and cultural studies) in the schools.
A pedagogy of activist art: Exploring the educational significance of creating art for social justice
Dewhurst, M. | 2009 The researcher conducted an ethnographic study examining teaching and learning in a teen after school activist art program at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
Singing in science: Writing and recording student lyrics to express learning
Nelson, S., & Norton-Meier, L. | 2009 This qualitative case study examines an integrated arts project in which students in two grade levels write song lyrics to express learning in science.
Looking is not seeing: Using art to improve observational skills
Pellico, L., Friedlaender, L., & Fennie, K. P. | 2009 This quasi-experimental study examines the effects of an art museum experience on the observational and diagnostic skills of nursing students.
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.
Experiences of artists and artist-teachers involved in teacher professional development programs
Upitis, R. | 2005 This study describes the impact of two professional development programs on artists.
Art and literacy with bilingual children
Carger, C. | 2004 The teacher-researcher designed the action research study to ascertain how the inclusion of visual arts in reading circles can enhance language and literacy learning for young bilingual students.
Renaissance on the Eastside: Motivating inner- city youth through art
Gasman, M., & Anderson-Thompkins, S. | 2003 The study reports on the effects of a community based visual arts program called Artists in the Making (AIM) on four pre-teen students.
Artistic talent development for urban youth: The promise and the challenge
Baum, S., Oreck, B., McCartney, H. | 1999 The researchers studied three cohorts of students enrolled in the Young Talent Program, an arts program offering instruction in music and dance to students enrolled in New York City public schools beginning at grade three and extending outside of school into early adulthood.
The flight of reading: Shifts in instruction, orchestration, and attitudes through classroom theatre
Wolf, S. A. | 1998 This research studied 17 children labeled “at risk” in a remedial third- and fourth-grade classroom.
The literate potentials of book-related dramatic play
Deborah Rowe | 1998 This research, based on two related studies, explores dramatic play and how it may assist young children in understanding the content of stories.
“You can’t be grandma; you’re a boy”: Events within the thematic fantasy play context that contribute to story comprehension
Williamson, P. A. & Silvern, S. B. | 1992 This study examines how kindergarten students’ behavior during dramatic reenactments of stories affects their story comprehension.
Identifying causal elements in thematic-fantasy play paradigm
Pellegrini, A. | 1984 This study examines the effect of adult-directed and peer-directed thematic play on both immediate and sustained recall.