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Ehrenhard Skiera – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
The main concern of this article is to introduce the concept of the authentic gesture as a vital, largely self-determined expression of the child and to make it fruitful for art education. Because of the assumed educational importance of the concept, some hints to other learning areas will also be given. This should be done from a historical and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Intellectual Freedom, Imagination
Baker, Kay – NAMTA Journal, 2013
The use of the hand is a physiological sequence. The prehensile nature of the human hand is an evolutionary feature as is the freeing of the hands due to bipedalism. Kay Baker outlines of the human hand's significance to the mind as found in chapter 14 of the "Absorbent Mind." In this article, she has created lists that break down the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Human Body, Handedness, Physiology
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Weinburg, Carl – Teacher Education Quarterly, 1988
Training teachers as artists will develop an understanding of their own cognitive style and a trust in personal intuition. The art student imitates the masters, learns from peers, and develops by experimentation and subjective assessments. Teachers and art students both learn by becoming committed to their work. (JD)
Descriptors: Artists, Cognitive Style, Creative Development, Creative Teaching
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Woodruff, Judith – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1985
Suggestions for teaching improvisational dance in a nonthreatening way are offered. (DF)
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Dance, Dance Education
Wolf, Geraldine A.; Launi, Barbara A. – 1996
This conference presentation handout describes a program which uses dance therapy to integrate special education students with various disabilities. The 6-week program at a middle school involved having a professional dancer teach students traditional and modern dance methods as a means of expressing emotions, followed by teams of students…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Counseling, Creative Development, Dance Education