by JoAnne Wilkins | Apr 25, 2018
Hyde, K. L., Lerch, J., Norton, A., Forgeard, M., Winner, E., Evans, A. C., & Schlaug, G. (2009). Musical training shapes structural brain development. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 3019 –3025.Abstract:This study investigates whether instrumental music...
by JoAnne Wilkins | Apr 25, 2018
Dewhurst, M. (2009). A pedagogy of activist art: Exploring the educational significance of creating art for social justice. (Doctoral Dissertation).Abstract:The researcher conducted an ethnographic study examining teaching and learning in a teen after school activist...
by JoAnne Wilkins | Apr 25, 2018
Katz, M. (2008). Growth in motion: Supporting young women’s embodied identity and cognitive development through dance after school. Afterschool Matters, 12-21.Abstract:This research examines embodied learning, how we know and learn through our body, from the...
by JoAnne Wilkins | Apr 25, 2018
Dunbar, K. N. (2008). Arts education, the brain, and language. In C. Asbury & C. Rich (Eds.) Learning, Arts, and the Brain. New York, NY: Dana Foundation.Abstract:This study uses neuroscientific methods to examine whether there are cognitive differences between...
by JoAnne Wilkins | Apr 25, 2018
Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (2007). Teaching literacy through art. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Visitor Studies, Evaluation & Audience Research. Abstract: This study is an evaluation of the outcome—for students, teachers and teaching artists—of...
