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Author : Judith Kase-Polisini,Children's Theatre Association of America
Publisher : Lanham, Md. : University Press of America
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X000910903
Author : Music Educators National Conference (U.S.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780195138849
Featuring chapters by the world's foremost scholars in music education and cognition, this handbook is a convenient collection of current research on music teaching and learning. This comprehensive work includes sections on arts advocacy, music and medicine, teacher education, and studio instruction, among other subjects, making it an essential reference for music education programs. The original Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, published in 1992 with the sponsorship of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), was hailed as "a welcome addition to the literature on music education because it serves to provide definition and unity to a broad and complex field" (Choice). This new companion volume, again with the sponsorship of MENC, explores the significant changes in music and arts education that have taken place in the last decade. Notably, several chapters now incorporate insights from other fields to shed light on multi-cultural music education, gender issues in music education, and non-musical outcomes of music education. Other chapters offer practical information on maintaining musicians' health, training music teachers, and evaluating music education programs. Philosophical issues, such as musical cognition, the philosophy of research theory, curriculum, and educating musically, are also explored in relationship to policy issues. In addition to surveying the literature, each chapter considers the significance of the research and provides suggestions for future study.Covering a broad range of topics and addressing the issues of music education at all age levels, from early childhood to motivation and self-regulation, this handbook is an invaluable resource for music teachers, researchers, and scholars.
Author : Richard Courtney
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0889242135
This important reference work is essential reading for drama educators, therapists, and others in the helping professions. Part I considers drama from the perspective of the philosophers, from those of ancient Greece to modern times. Part II examines drama and play as seen by various schools of psychology, beginning with the depth psychology of Freud, Jung and Adler, and going on to discuss more recent schools, such as the drama therapy of Jacob Moreno. In Part III, the authors considers drama from a broader sociological and anthropological perspective, giving us a glimpse of its importance in cultures distant from each other in time and space. Part IV ties together the earlier chapters, and we see how drama relates to intuition, symbolism, and the fundamental structures of human thought.
Author : Philip M. Anderson,Kecia Hayes,Joe Kincheloe,Karel Rose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313039003
Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by many contradictions, this work proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice. It is necessary for those teaching in urban schools to be scholar-practitioners, rather than bureaucrats who can only follow rather than analyze, understand, and create. Ten major sections cover the myriad issues of urban education as it exists today.
Author : Craig A. Rimmerman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education, Humanistic
ISBN : 9780739121214
The book evaluates service-learning within the context of a liberal arts education from a variety of disciplines. Contributors have written chapters that have practical appeal to other teachers and students interested in developing their own service-learning courses and connecting those courses to broader issues of citizenship and democracy.
Author : Sue Jennings,Ann Cattanach,Steve Mitchell,Anna Chesner,Brenda Meldrum,Steve Mitchell Nfa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134876235
Dramatherapy is being increasingly practised in a range of therapeutic settings and is of growing interest to theatre practitioners and teachers. The Handbook of Dramatherapy brings together five authors who have considerable experience of clinical, artistic and educational work to provide an easy-to-read introduction to the major models of dramatherapy. The authors explain the differences between dramatherapy and psychodrama, discuss its relationship with theatre art, look at assessment and evaluation techniques, and argue the need for more appropriate methods of research for this increasingly popular form of therapeutic treatment. The Handbook of Dramatherapy provides a comprehensive basis for theory and practice and will be an invaluable resource for all students of dramatherapy and theatre.
Author : Richard Courtney
Publisher : OISE Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Education
ISBN : OSU:32435065227837
In this collection of theoretical essays, Richard Courtney argues that there is a human drama essential to life and education. Imagination, creativity, learning, myth, ritual, symbolism, media, "masks" - these and other ideas are shown as fundamentally dramatic. Re-Play commences by considering Developmental Drama - the study of human drama, both personal and cultural. The author then looks at the drama of learning - examining motivation and transfer in detail. Subsequent chapters describe instruction, giftedness, English and language learning, dramatherapyy, the nature of culture, and a rationale for the arts in education. The book concludes with appendixes which give a new theory of curriculum and refer to many aspects of modern research.
Author : J.L. Moreno, MD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780826197757
Again available! This handy volume collects the best and most important writings of J.L. Moreno in one concise and accessible place. This unique collection explores Moreno's thought in developing psychodrama and sociometry, with his strong emphasis on spontaneity and creativity. The book discusses both basic and advanced concepts and techniques of psychodramatic treatment. Thte reader will find extensive examples from Moreno's own cases containing verbatim transcripts that illustrate the give-and-take between Moreno, his patients, and the audience observers. Jonathan Fox introduces the book with a brief overview of Moreno's life and ideas and places him in the context of his time and in the field of psychotherapy. Fox's notes throughout underscore significant aspects of the selections for the practitioner and student.
Author : Jamal Assadi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820463299
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : Howard E. Gardner
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780465013142
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolutionized our thinking.In his groundbreaking 1983 book Frames of Mind, Howard Gardner first introduced the theory of multiple intelligences, which posits that intelligence is more than a single property of the human mind. That theory has become widely accepted as one of the seminal ideas of the twentieth century and continues to attract attention all over the world.Now in Intelligence Reframed, Gardner provides a much-needed report on the theory, its evolution and revisions. He offers practical guidance on the educational uses of the theory and responds to the critiques leveled against him. He also introduces two new intelligences (existential intelligence and naturalist intelligence) and argues that the concept of intelligence should be broadened, but not so absurdly that it includes every human virtue and value. Ultimately, argues Gardner, possessing a basic set of seven or eight intelligences is not only a unique trademark of the human species, but also perhaps even a working definition of the species. Gardner also offers provocative ideas about creativity, leadership, and moral excellence, and speculates about the relationship between multiple intelligences and the world of work in the future.
Author : John Somers
Publisher : Captus Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1895712882
Author : Beverly Otto
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781478638995
Widely recognized as a leading text in its field, this popular guide explores literacy development beginning in infancy and through fourth grade. The latest edition continues to prepare teachers to create and implement literacy-rich curricula in early childhood classrooms, while providing updates to federal legislation and highlighting the impact of state standards on educational settings. Recent technology is integrated into activities used to enhance literacy competencies. Throughout the book, the author’s approach to reflective teaching empowers teachers to become effective decision makers and thoughtful mediators in children’s transactions with literacy. A conceptual and theoretical foundation for describing reading and writing processes is followed by research-based descriptions of the signs of emergent literacy and developmentally appropriate instructional strategies. The emphasis on linguistic and cultural diversity includes an array of approaches for supporting English language learners. Chapter extension activities challenge readers to apply concepts through observation, research, curriculum development, and discussion. Sample observation and assessment forms assist in determining children’s progress in developing literacy.
Author : Howard E Gardner
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780786721870
The most complete account of the theory and application of Multiple Intelligences available anywhere. Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence, known as Multiple Intelligences theory, has changed the face of education. Tens of thousands of educators, parents, and researchers have explored the practical implications and applications of this powerful notion, that there is not one type of intelligence but several, ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in self-understanding. Multiple Intelligences distills nearly three decades of research on Multiple Intelligences theory and practice, covering its central arguments and numerous developments since its introduction in 1983. Gardner includes discussions of global applications, Multiple Intelligences in the workplace, an assessment of Multiple Intelligences practice in the current conservative educational climate, new evidence about brain functioning, and much more.
Author : C. P. Epskamp
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1842777335
The Theatre for Development (TFD) is a learning strategy in which theatre is used to encourage communities to express their own concerns and think about the causes of their problems and possible solutions. This overview contributes to both the theory and practice of Theatre for Development. The author contextualises it historically within the evolving range of development theories, strategies and practices, notably including the now widely accepted notion of participatory approaches to achieving social change.
Author : Peter McLaren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004507685
This collection of essays incorporates some of the most important and longstanding foundational texts in education developed by the leading educational neo-Gramscian social theorist Peter McLaren