Art -- Study and teaching (Early childhood); Early childhood teachers; Early childhood education
The National Association for the Education of Young Children, NAEYC, encourages teachers to provide young children with opportunities "...to explore and manipulate art materials and not to expect them to produce a finished art product"...
Art -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Art and technology -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Discovery Education (Firm)
Our world is immersed in and enthralled by technology. The appealing quality of images, communication and music on-demand can possibly be put to good use by teachers of the visual arts. The curriculum could include multimedia as a core...
This study investigated how a modified curriculum for the artistically talented affected the drawing performance of eight middle school students in heterogeneous art rooms. This study was undertaken because I was concerned about the lack of...
Sixteenth-century North America had neither European castle nor king, classical ruins or antiquities, no ancient or cultural history; no sense of a past, no memories, no art and no literature; yet it had a present and a future. To Europeans, it was...
Art appreciation -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
This study involved the development of a comprehensive art education curriculum for the Professional Studies area of the Molepolole College of Education in Botswana. The curriculum will provide students with the ability to understand and appreciate...
Art appreciation -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
The government of Botswana, through the ministry of education, opened Molepolole College of Education and Tonota College of Education in the years 1985 and 1990 respectively. These educational institutions were established as a response to the...
The techniques of art may have developed by accident, however the growth of the profession has been quite deliberate. Many individuals who enter counseling, struggle with the placement of feelings into words. Therefore, the use of art therapy...
Art therapy provides a nonverbal therapuetic modality in which individuals are able to create images of sentiments, cognitions, and happenings in their world. Developmentally, children struggle with tasks of representing these abstract items...
Arts -- Study and teaching; Aesthetics -- Study and teaching
This study provides an investigation into artistic expression and the use of aesthetics in a middle school environment. Part I of the study was designed to determine how eighth-grade students perceive their own strengths in the arts and whether or...
This examination of Nobody, a punning image in words and pictures of an imaginary person without a torso, was initiated by how often he appeared in different guises in the English satirical prints of the eighteenth century. For many years Nobody...
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation
This thesis proposes the Samuel Coleridge's poetry attempts to forge an interdependent relationship between imagination and faith. In the Biographia Literaria Coleridge suggests that the imagination is an entity separate from man and similar to the...
The Department of Design (Graphic/Information) at Central Connecticut State University, accredited in the Fall 1999, was newly formed at the time of the creation of this thesis. Thus, the Department needed the production of this collection of...
This thesis is a study in graphic art as well as the basics of commercial advertising. It is in the form of a CD-ROM. Presented here is a promotion for a hypothetical travel agency which deals with travel to Puerto Rico. The work focuses on the...
This qualitative inquiry explored student experiences and responses while producing and evaluating computer-generated art. In our highly technological world, art can be digitally rendered. And while students are excited and eager to explore the...
Computer-aided design -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Space perception -- Testing; Educational technology -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
The purpose of this study is to identify if a three-dimensional computer aided drafting program will help high school students improve their spatial reasoning skills (n=20). Technology changes at a rapid pace and is predicted to change even faster...
DNA -- Analysis; Nucleotide sequence; Cancer genes
The first methods for sequencing DNA were developed in the mid-1970’s (Strausberg et al. 2008). The sequencing efforts were labor-intensive, slow, and costly (Metzker, 2005). As a result, researchers could sequence only a few base pairs per...
Educational equalization; Art -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Curricula
This qualitative study documented the journey of both teacher and students as they explored a gender-balanced approach to the sixth-grade art curriculum. The study focused on broadening student perspectives, demystifying male and female artists,...
Flamenco is a passion, an art, an identity and a culture. Its development over the centuries is complex, its legend unforgettable. This research will inform both the aficionado and the non-aficionado of flamenco's three components (songs, dance and...
When Flaubert's masterpiece, Madame Bovary, was published in 1857, the success was immediate. Despite its popularity, the novel was disliked by the Imperial censors. The author was charged with insulting the public morality and offending decent...
Geometry -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Escher, M. C.(Maurits Cornelis),1898-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation; Geometry in art
The integration of discovery-based learning activities into mathematics curricula has been shown to aid in students’ conceptual understanding of many topics, especially in the subject of geometry. Using artwork as the basis of discovery lessons...
