Arts, general Books

The Initiation of Development in Chaetopterus is a scientific book written by Harriet May Allyn and first published in 1913. The book focuses on the early development of a marine worm called Chaetopterus, which belongs to the family Chaetopteridae...

This collection of insightful essays gives teachers' perspectives on the role of space and presence in teaching performance. It explores how the demand for remote teaching can be met while at the same time successfully educating and working...

The Art of Math and Science guides teachers to introduce masterpiece art to young children, so they can tell you about “paints with hidden floats” and ask questions like, “When painting the Sistine Chapel, do you think Michelangelo had...

A comprehensive review of international and national standards and guidelines, this handbook consists of 32 chapters divided into nine sections that cover standardization efforts, anthropometry and working postures, designing manual material,...

Written for prospective and practicing visual arts, music, drama, and dance educators, Teaching the Arts to Engage English Language Learners offers guidance for engaging ELLs, alongside all learners, through artistic thinking. By paying equal attention...

Bilder und Bilderfahrungen sind heute zentraler Bestandteil der Wahrnehmung der Wirklichkeitserfahrung und des kommunikativen Austauschs von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Der Sammelband stellt methodische Ansätze der ...

Dear Artist, you will love this book because:This is a fun people-drawing guide! It is an introduction to drawing people in a comprehensive and simple way - that both kids and adults will find useful. Drawing people can at first seem intimidating,...

Deja que la Palabra de Dios transforme tu corazón mientras calmas tu espíritu, alivias el estrés cotidiano y relajas tu mente con este libro para colorear para adultos cristianos.Sumérgete en las promesas de la Biblia con...

A volume in Teaching and Learning Social StudiesAction! Film is a common and powerful element in the social studies classroom and Cinematic Social Studies explores teaching and learning social studies with film. Teaching with film is a prominent teaching...

JAEPL Volume 27 • 2022 | THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSEMBLY FOR EXPANDED PERSPECTIVES ON LEARNING, JAEPL, provides a forum to encourage research, theory, and classroom practices involving expanded concepts of language. It contributes to a sense of community in...

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Those who have already discovered the ease of teaching with the recently updated second edition of Suzi Zimmerman's Introduction to Theatre Arts, Volume 1 will be thrilled to learn we now have the second edition of Introduction to Theatre Arts, Volume 2...

This 2nd edition has been updated to be gender-neutral, better organized, and include modern technology and social media. Even better, the Student Workbook is just that... an individual workbook for each student, loose-leaf, three-hole-punched, and ready...

You’ve loved their first two best-selling books on improv for the classroom, so these two fabulously creative and entertaining devotees to theatre have done it again!  All the best from those two top-selling books is still here, yet this book...

The Delsarte Recitation Book And Directory is a book written by Elsie M. Wilbor and published in 1890. It is a guidebook for performers and public speakers who are looking to improve their recitation skills using the Delsarte method. This method was...

This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices - and why this matters in education. Arts-based learning and inquiry can function as a powerful catalyst for change by allowing spiritual...

Teaching Music in American Society, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of social and cultural themes directly related to music education, teacher training, and successful teacher characteristics. Music teachers need to be not only...

By applying philosophical and historical perspectives to drawing instruction, this volume demonstrates how diverse teaching methods contribute to cognitive and holistic development applicable within and beyond the visual arts.Offering a new perspective...

Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this book examines literacy teaching and learning as embedded in cultural, linguistic, racial, sexual, and gendered...

This is a guidebook for art students at the college level (BA, BFA, MFA, PhD). Compared to other books on critique, this book is more colorful, more engaging, and less formal."James Elkins is one of the world's leading educators in the visual arts. In...

Creativity is globally recognised as the most critically in demand skill for the future of work and education... so what is it and why don't we have it? Is creativity defined by innovation, or is there something more?Can the arts offer any insight, or do...

Reclaiming English Language Arts Methods Courses showcases innovative work in teacher education that fosters teachers' capacities as reflective practitioners and public intellectuals; extends traditional boundaries of methods courses on teaching the...

This updated second edition of A Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Secondary School provides valuable support, guidance and creative new ideas for students and practising teachers who want to develop their music teaching practice. Written to...

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of the relation between language and society, language and culture, language and mind. It integrates frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and emerging...

Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. The book's seventeen chapters collectively ask: What use is theory to an...

This book offers a variety of effective, concrete ways to better assimilate arts therapies in the educational system.Featuring leading art therapists and the models they have honed as a result of their arts experience in education, Integrating Arts...

Media, communications and cultural studies form a rapidly growing part of secondary and tertiary education in Australia, yet there have been few books dealing specifically with Australian television. This is the first wide ranging study of television in...

This book will guide you through some of the basics in learning art. It will provide step by step instructions on how to better your drawings. Playful Palette wants you to be able to learn the tools needed in order to draw confidently...

This book contains 142 melodies organised and proposed according to criteria developed over many years of teaching. They have proven to be reliable music material for a training course where the main objective is singing in tune. Each chapter presents a...

¡Filosofando sencillamente con niños!¿Qué es libertad? ¿Un pájaro es más libre que tú? ¿Se es libre a pesar de tener que trabajar?En este libro encontrará las mejores 44 preguntas sobre el gran tema Libertad. Combinadas con imágenes inspiradoras, las...

This book examines a performative environmental educational inquiry through a place-based eco-art project collaboratively undertaken with a class of grade 4-6 students around the lost streams of Vancouver. The resulting work explores the contradictions...

This volume examines pluralism in light of recent music education research history and pluralistic approaches in practice. Pluralistic research holds the potential to blend frameworks, foundations, methods, and analysis protocols, and leads to a...

Preguntarse si lo que estamos haciendo está funcionando no es algo fácil. Estamos muy conscientes del peligro que supone evaluar las cosas como lo hace el mundo —sobre mediciones y la viabilidad económica de los...

Srimad Bhagavatam is an incomparable treasure house of Krishna's pastimes, and by studying Srimad Bhagavatam our children can gain spiritual knowledge, language and reasoning skills, and most importantly, devotion for Lord Krishna. This illustrated guide...

<p>The book is all about how teaching English Language and Literature can be result oriented for those students whose Enlgish is very poor and cannot venture at all to express themselves in English. This book will prove to be helping hand to those...

Engaging introduction to the history of music, beginning with the earliest instruments playing simple notes in a primitive setting and proceeding to follow over the long course of history the development of instruments, the increase in musical...

Many educational institutions headed by women don’t get the credit they deserve. I think that the missing critical argument for the value of these women is not being recognized or even revered. Thinking about those women today and in history, their...

This book advances an environmental approach to enhancing creativity in schools, by interweaving educational creativity theory with creative industries environmental approaches. Using Anna Craft's last book Creativity and Education Futures as a starting...

Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism illustrates the productive potential of critical arts pedagogies in the ongoing work of decolonization by engaging art, activism, and transnational feminisms.

This book examines and illustrates the use of design principles, design thinking, and other empathy research techniques in university and public settings, to plan and ethically target socially-concerned transmedia stories and evaluate their success...

Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neoclassical...

Early Medieval Venice examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. From the periphery of the Byzantine Empire, Venice acquired complete independence and emerged as the major power in the...

This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially...

This exciting new book offers practical resources and lesson plans for exploring gender in the drama curriculum. It looks at how theatre performances throughout history have played with the concept of identity and gender and explains why drama lessons...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003002697, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.With attention to the transnational dance world...