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Art & Experiential Education: How a Deweyian Perspective on Art as the Key to Holistic Learning and Growth Can Inform Contemporary Art Education
Get PDFDewey's conception of the role that experience should play in learning and development has\ud
implications for art education. This essay explores Dewey's philosophy of experiential education\ud
and the ways in which his theory resonates with artistic experience and practice. It overviews the\ud
history of art education in the United States, as well as various arguments for and trends within\ud
it; and contains three case studies - Montessori schools, Waldorf schools, and Black Mountain\ud
College - whose practices, pedagogies, and underlying philosophies are examined from a\ud
Deweyian, experiential perspective. Throughout this investigation, implications for\ud
contemporary art education are considered. Dewey's writings and the case studies together\ud
reveal that a holistic art education in which artistic, aesthetic activity and experience are\ud
integrated into all aspects of the curriculum and classroom environment and emphasized by\ud
virtue of their ubiquity, students may develop a perceptual awareness and aesthetic sensibility\ud
that benefits them in their learning and their daily life
"The possibilities of a box": Louise Brigham's Box Furniture and the making of democratic craft and design
No full textGuiler, Thomas A.In 1909, a little-known artist and social reformer named Louise Brigham published Box Furniture: How to Make a Hundred Useful Articles for the Home. An instructional manual for making simple, modular furniture out of repurposed wooden packing crates on the one hand, this text is also a domestic advice book on thrift, home decoration, and the transformative power of craft. Brigham’s unique and interdisciplinary approach to aesthetic, social, domestic, and educational reform was at once of its time and ahead of its time and is itself challenging to fit into a box. ☐ This thesis investigates Box Furniture through the lenses of the Arts and Crafts movement and the Progressive Era. The utopian ideologies of reform that made up each of these movements influenced and shaped Brigham’s vision for box furniture in their own ways, but Brigham’s work also helped to activate the Arts and Crafts movement’s call to democratize design in a manner that was otherwise largely elusive. Ultimately, Brigham’s Box Furniture helps to demonstrate that the aesthetic reform of the Arts and Crafts movement cannot be fully separated from its context within the period’s overarching social and political Progressivism. Additionally, the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement have remained relevant over time, and while Box Furniture was a product of its time and place, it is also part of a long history of creative reuse, empowerment through craft and handwork, and attempts to democratize design that have run throughout the twentieth century and up to the present day.M.A.University of Delaware, Winterthur Program in American Material Cultur
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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