The Arts and the School Environment: Establishing an Ethos

2012 ◽  
pp. 97-123
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2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashraf M. Salama

The educational process in schools involves many activities that ultimately aim at testing students' motivation, knowledge assimilation, academic performance, and teachers' productivity. How these activities are accommodated in a responsive environment is a critical issue that deserves special attention especially from users' perspective. This paper analyzes emerging understandings of learning environments. Reactions of teachers and students to classroom and cluster prototypes, among other aspects, against a number of spatial requirements and educational objectives are analyzed and discussed based on two mechanisms. The first is a comparative analysis of reactions of teachers from three elementary schools within Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District. The second part is a case study of a pre-design phase undertaken for redesigning some buildings of North Carolina School of the Arts. The results of this investigation support the assumption on how the school environment has a direct impact on the way in which teaching and learning takes place. A conclusion envisioning the need for going beyond adopting prescriptive measures to address the quality of the learning environment is conceived by highlighting the need to utilize knowledge generated from research findings into school design process, to pursue active roles in sensitizing users about the value of the school environment in reaching the desired academic performance while increasing teachers' productivity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-45
Author(s):  
Muhamad Lutfi Hakim ◽  
Laelia Nurpratiwiningsih

In carrying out his professional duties, a teacher is obliged as follows. First, planning to learn, carrying out quality learning processes, and assessing and evaluating learning outcomes. Second, improving and developing academic qualifications and competencies on an ongoing basis in line with science, technology, and the arts. Third, act objectively and non-discriminatory based on consideration of particular gender, religion, ethnicity, race, physical condition, family background, and socioeconomic status of learners in learning. Fourth, they uphold the laws, laws, codes of conduct of teachers, and religious and ethical values. One way to obtain and develop the four competencies for prospective teachers is the Field Experience Program (PPL). In general, the purpose of PPL is to condition (familiarize) students as candidates with all school life in real life. In particular, PPL aims to allow students to know, educate, train, and understand directly and carefully about the following. Know the physical environment, administration and school environment, and its discipline carefully. Owning and mastering essential learning. Able to carry out teaching skills on learning activities to be taught. Have a professional standard of teacher complementary. It shaped students' personalities as qualified educators and professionals, mastering and applying the principles of teaching science. The way for Guiding students towards the formation of a person is who has the value of knowledge and skills needed in the shape of proposed as an educational force.           


Author(s):  
María Dolores Arcoba Alpuente

Resumen: En este artículo se presenta una experiencia artística realizada en diez centros de enseñanza secundaria de L’Horta Nord y Camp de Morvedre (València) sobre los procesos de construcción identitaria mediante actitudes artísticas contemporáneas, en este caso, a través del videoarte. Utilizando la Investigación educativa basada en las artes (Arts Based Educational Research) se ha llevado a término la realización y posterior análisis interpretativo de todas las producciones videográficas fundamentadas en el autorretrato tradicional, por tanto, han conformado unos resultados muy interesantes que inducen a reflexionar sobre la utilización y desarrollo de estos nuevos géneros contemporáneos dentro del área de educación artística de los centros educativos. Dentro de esta investigación la creación de las nuevas narrativas audiovisuales como lenguaje artístico en el ámbito escolar abarca gran relevancia. Consideramos la utilización del vídeo como vehículo para la creación de imágenes que al mismo tiempo funciona como herramienta de trabajo imprescindible para la reflexión, indagación y  análisis. Además se constituye como un procedimiento para cuestionar y criticar la imagen sistemática.   Palabras clave: narrativa audiovisual, autorretrato, identidad, educación artística, enseñanza secundaria.   Abstract: This article presents an artistic experience in ten secondary schools of L'Horta Nord and Camp de Morvedre (València) on the processes of construction of personal identities through contemporary artistic attitudes, in this case, through video art. Using the Arts Based Educational Research (Arts Based Educational Research), the completion and subsequent interpretative analysis of all the videographic productions based on the traditional self-portrait have been completed, therefore, they have shaped very interesting results that lead us to reflect on the use and development of these new contemporary genres within the area of artistic education of educational centers. Within this investigation the creation of the new audiovisual narratives as artistic language in the school environment encompasses great relevance. We consider the use of video as a vehicle for the creation of images that at the same time works as an essential work tool for reflection, inquiry and analysis. It is also constituted as a procedure to question and criticize the systematic image.   Keywords: audiovisual narrative, self-portrait, identity, artistic education, secondary education.   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/eari.10.14331


Author(s):  
Cecil E. Hall

The visualization of organic macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and virus components has reached its high degree of effectiveness owing to refinements and reliability of instruments and to the invention of methods for enhancing the structure of these materials within the electron image. The latter techniques have been most important because what can be seen depends upon the molecular and atomic character of the object as modified which is rarely evident in the pristine material. Structure may thus be displayed by the arts of positive and negative staining, shadow casting, replication and other techniques. Enhancement of contrast, which delineates bounds of isolated macromolecules has been effected progressively over the years as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 by these methods. We now look to the future wondering what other visions are waiting to be seen. The instrument designers will need to exact from the arts of fabrication the performance that theory has prescribed as well as methods for phase and interference contrast with explorations of the potentialities of very high and very low voltages. Chemistry must play an increasingly important part in future progress by providing specific stain molecules of high visibility, substrates of vanishing “noise” level and means for preservation of molecular structures that usually exist in a solvated condition.


1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Shapiro ◽  
Nelson Moses

This article presents a practical and collegial model of problem solving that is based upon the literature in supervision and cognitive learning theory. The model and the procedures it generates are applied directly to supervisory interactions in the public school environment. Specific principles of supervision and related recommendations for collaborative problem solving are discussed. Implications for public school supervision are addressed in terms of continued professional growth of both supervisees and supervisors, interdisciplinary team functioning, and renewal and retention of public school personnel.


PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Silvia
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