Re-Discovering Graphics

Author(s):  
Pamela Harris Lawton

This chapter presents a historical account and analysis of Discover Graphics, a defunct museum-school-community partnership developed by the Smithsonian Institution, that for 24 years provided professional level printmaking studio and museum experiences to high school students, college students, and art teachers in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. The description and impact of the program on school districts, students, teachers, artists, and museum professionals are examined through archival materials, publications, the author's narrative of experience as a student participant in the program, and its transformative effect on her education and career. The chapter closes with a discussion about community printmaking programs that developed to fill the breach left by the closure of Discover Graphics and suggests possible future museum-school-community partnerships.

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Amanda Fioritto

This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of a youth development program run by Urban Alliance, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC that provides paid internships to under-resourced high school students. Although Urban Alliance served over 1,500 youth across four locations through multiple programs during the 2013-14 academic year, this analysis focuses exclusively on the High School Internship Program (HSIP) in Washington, DC. Using a sub-national perspective, the costs and benefits experienced by all residents and groups in Washington, DC are considered in the analysis. The status quo to which this program is compared is student nonparticipation in any similar program. Under the base case, the program is expected to yield approximately $19 million in net benefits. This study concludes that the program is efficient and should continue to operate.


Author(s):  
Maria Pinho Gemaque

ResumoA lógica da pesquisa desenvolvida intercambia vivências dentro do espaço escolar nas aulas de arte com processos de criação, intervenção artística/educativa desenvolvidas na Escola Estadual Raimunda Virgolino, Macapá/AP/Brasil. Trata-se de um trabalho coletivo que envolveu estudantes do Ensino Médio, professoras de Arte e artistas amapaenses. Procurou compreender os enlaces dos processos de criação em arte por meio de ações em performances de alunos e professores. O estudo possui caráter qualitativo por entender as relações entre os indivíduos, e, por isso, de intenção etnográfica, inspirado pela metodologia a/r/tográfica. Esse processo metodológico engendra saberes entre a atividade do professor/artista que investiga e constrói significados sobre a sua prática a partir de experiências artísticas e educativas. Foi produzido um material que se atem a desvelar o processo de criação imerso na pesquisa: um livro de artista contendo quatro conversas interativas, um CD do filme “Viagens Poéticas” e imagens dos processos que se desaguam em mesas de cafés, encontro com teóricos e com as cidades que estão atravessadas nestas conversas pesquisantes. Os fins – e – afins inacabados da investigação consiste em aproximação e diálogos horizontalizados entre alunos e professor, diluir fronteiras entre saberes e fazeres do conhecimento em educação em arte, apropriações percepções artísticas e estéticas em torno da vida dentro do ambiente escolar.AbstractThe logic of the research that was developed exchanges with the experiences within the space of coexistence in the art classes with processes of creation, artistic / educational intervention developed in the State School Raimunda Virgolino, Macapá / AP / Brazil. It is a collective work that involved high school students, art teachers and amapaenses artists. It sought to understand the links of the processes of creation in art through actions in performances of students and teachers. The study has a qualitative character because it understands the relations between individuals, and therefore of ethnographic intention, inspired by the a / r / tographic methodology. This methodological process generates knowledge between the activity of the teacher / artist who investigates and constructs meanings about his practice based on artistic and educational experiences. A material was produced which began to reveal the process of creation immersed in research: an artist’s book containing four interactive talks, a CD of the movie “Poetic Travels” and images of the processes that pour into coffee tables, meeting with theorists and with the cities that are going through these research conversations. The unfinished ends and ends of the research consist of horizontal approximation and dialogues between the students and their teacher, diluting boundaries between knowledge and actions knowledge in art education, appropriation of artistic and aesthetic perceptions around life within of the school environment.


2014 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Aya Katagiri ◽  
Maria Letsiou ◽  
Bernadette Thomas

Mobilemovie project is a research project undertaken by three art teachers from three different parts of the world. During the 2013 - 2014 academic years, their high school students have been involved in producing video art. The art creation is the result of three-step teaching tasks derived from the students’ virtual interaction. In this visual essay the mobilemovie project is presented with photographs from outstanding mobilemovies that students produced. Furthermore, the three artist teachers provide contextual insight through descriptions and commentaries


Author(s):  
Sara K. Head ◽  
Danice Eaton ◽  
Patricia C. Lloyd ◽  
Aimee McLaughlin ◽  
John Davies-Cole

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (66) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
Cybelle Bezerra Sousa Florêncio ◽  
Maély Ferreira Holanda Ramos ◽  
Simone Souza da Costa Silva

Abstract: Adolescence has been described as a developmental phase marked by challenges, tensions, and uncertainties that can generate stress and lower adolescents' future expectations. This study aims to describe adolescent perceptions of stress and future expectations.It is a mixed-methods study of 17 high school students, selected from a sample of 295 adolescents, aged 14 to 18 years, who are pupils in a private school system in the metropolitan region of Belém do Pará. The Stress Scale for Adolescents was used, in addition to focus groups. The results indicated higher stress levels in female adolescents. The participants who had no stress had good family relationships and well-defined future expectations. However, the adolescents who had stress associated their family context with stressors and had no expectations for the future.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arley Santos Leão ◽  
Nara Michelle Moura Soares ◽  
Eliane Cristina de Andrade Gonçalves ◽  
Diego Augusto Santos Silva ◽  
Roberto Jerônimo dos Santos Silva ◽  
...  

Design. The social, cultural, and economic context can be an important variable in the perception and adoption of risk behaviors in adolescents. Objective. The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of simultaneous health risk behaviors and associated socioeconomic factors in adolescents living in the metropolitan region of Aracaju, State of Sergipe, Brazil. Methods. The sample consisted of 2,207 high school students aged 13–18 years. The risk behaviors measured were “low levels of physical activity,” “excessive daily TV time,” “high consumption of alcoholic beverages on a single occasion,” “involvement in fights,” “smoking cigarettes,” “carrying firearms,” and “marijuana consumption.” Information was obtained through self-administered questionnaire. Results. Considering the results, it was observed that female adolescents and those aged up to 16 years were less likely to have two or more health risk behaviors compared to males and those aged 17 years or more, respectively. It was also found that both high- and middle-income level adolescents had higher prevalence of having two or more health risk behaviors. Conclusions. It was concluded that male adolescents older than 16 years with better socioeconomic level were more exposed to the simultaneous presence of several health risk behaviors.


Author(s):  
Victor Udoewa

Started as a program in 2003 and then incorporated as a nonprofit in 2008, each year, LearnServe has taken students of diverse backgrounds from the Washington, DC area to experience a summer of international service-learning and social entrepreneurship. However, the students who travel abroad are not always prepared to go or able to successfully complete the post-trip activities. With experiences of extreme homesickness and severe culture shock, a lack of true social empowerment projects during the trip, and a lack of engagement in social entrepreneurship after the trip, the program directors realized there was a need to improve the LearnServe curriculum. The aim was to create an improved educational experience that prepares students to travel, engages them during the trip, and creates sharing and entrepreneurial opportunities afterwards. This paper presents the design research and prototyping work completed to redesign this service-learning program so that it meets its goals for success, more effectively preparing students to have a successful service-learning trip abroad and engaging social entrepreneurship work upon return.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Agus Sikwan ◽  
Anggreini Y D

This study is entitled: "Implementation of the School Accreditation Policy in the Public High School (SMU) I Toho, Toho District, Mempawah Regency". Using qualitative analysis, the results of this study indicate that the  mplementation of the school accreditation system policy implemented by the West Kalimantan Province School Accreditation Board (BAS) towards the Toho I State High School since 2005 has been going well, and has had a positive impact on the average increase passing grade results of the Final School Examination (UAS) obtained by students majoring in Social Sciences and Natural Sciences at Toho I State High School in 2017 to 2018 when compared with the average value of UAS results obtained by Toho I State High School students in 2014, despite the increase in grades the average UAS results obtained by the students were still unsatisfactory for students' parents and the school. The results also showed that the performance of the school principal as the bureaucratic apparatus of the Toho State High School I in providing administrative services to the school community was seen from the aspect of responsiveness which could be said to be good, because school residents felt there was a communication channel provided by the Toho District Education Office to convey their aspirations. In addition, the ability of the bureaucratic apparatus at the Toho District Education Office to recognize what the school community wants through direct interaction with them, causes the demands and desires of the school community to be poured by the Toho subdistrict Education Office in the form of a work program which then get a positive response from the principal of Toho I State High School to implement it.


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