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Battersby, Sharyn L.; Verdi, Brian – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
As a result of Race to the Top, states across the country vied for school improvement grants in order to advance educational reforms including effective professional development and teacher collaboration within their school districts. Requirements of the grant included the development of teacher evaluation systems and a professional development…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Music Teachers
McCarthy-Brown, Nyama – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
This article synthesizes current dance education research that demonstrates connections between the culturally relevant pedagogy and student academic achievement, details why the arts are exponentially important and valuable to all communities, and provides practical solutions for the everyday teacher. Through a pointed focus on culturally…
Descriptors: Dance, Poverty, Dance Education, Educational Research
Acer, Dilek – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
One of the most important factors determining a nation's level of development in the modern world is preschool education. When preschool education is perceived as an entity that affects every aspect of childhood development, this fact is undeniable. Several aspects of preschool education, including art education, play a significant role in a…
Descriptors: Art Education, Preschool Education, Standards, Foreign Countries
Wright, Peter – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
This article considers drama/theater education as a form of constructivism where popular culture is both accessed and employed to engage young people and animate education. Using the familiar cultural trope of zombies, and in reference to three separate performance projects, attention is drawn to why projects such as these matter and why they…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Art Education, Constructivism (Learning), Popular Culture
Chavasse, Amy – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
Returning to the classroom each year is an act of radical repositioning. Even as I return to the knowledge, experience, and accumulated memories of my teaching and creative practice, I look to ways to restructure how I deliver information and search for new methodologies of learning. Acknowledging the fluid conditions that define teaching movement…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Constructivism (Learning), Empowerment, College Instruction
Shively, Joseph – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
Over the past twenty years, constructivism, as a theory of learning, has taken on an increasingly important role in music education. Efforts to shift music education toward a more constructivist practice have significant implications for policymaking at all levels of music education. In this article, I seek to recalibrate our thinking about what…
Descriptors: Music Education, Constructivism (Learning), Learning Theories, Knowledge Level
Thompson, Christine Marmé – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
Constructivist thought and practice connect easily with forms of art education that emphasize choice and student agency. This article traces the contemporary forms of constructivism that vie with more structured pedagogical approaches in American schools and recommends policies and procedures that may preserve the qualities of constructivist…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Praxis, Art Education, Teaching Methods
West, Chad; Clauhs, Matthew – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
This article examines ways in which music education advocacy efforts have become disconnected from the unified visions and declarations of music educators espoused in the Tanglewood and Housewright declarations and are thus reifying the disconnect between what we value and what we say we value. We first analyze the policies posited by the recently…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Advocacy, Program Improvement
Risner, Doug; Barr, Sherrie – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
Preparing dance specialist teachers to successfully educate an increasingly diverse student population highlights a number of challenges within an educational policy landscape characterized by technical production, methods-centric teacher preparation, teacher-proof curriculum, and standardization. The ramifications of these policies have…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Teacher Education Programs, Praxis, National Standards
Parkes, Kelly A.; Powell, Sean R. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze the edTPA, a performance assessment created by the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) and administered by Pearson, Inc., to assess the professional readiness of student teachers. We challenge claims made in support of using this assessment, specifically within the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Student Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Maloney, Betsy – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
In this research study, I examined how institutional power affected the experiences of two dance educators attempting to gain their K-12 dance teaching license in Minnesota. My research analyzed the ways in which candidates applying for the portfolio review process constructed, amended, or abandoned their identities as teachers/artists/individuals…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Dance Education, Teachers, Teacher Certification
Vermeersch, Lode; Groenez, Steven – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
In this article we explore the influence of the geographical proximity of out-of-school arts education provision on the individual decisions of children and youngsters to enroll in an arts education course. The distance between the homes of the Belgian students in compulsory education and the nearest offering of out-of-school arts education (a…
Descriptors: Art Education, After School Education, Proximity, Geographic Location
Weltsek, Gustave J.; Duffy, Peter B.; Carney, Charles L. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
The United States and much of the world is struggling with what "education" and being "educated" mean. Daily media are replete with debates on issues ranging from gender and class rights to the ideological and practical purpose of education. Prominent among these debates are discussions about whether education should be geared…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Educational Research, Educational Policy, Research Methodology
Nevanen, Saila; Juvonen, Antti; Ruismäki, Heikki – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
More than 98 percent of children in Finland attend preschool, where different kinds of projects are carried out in order to strengthen the children's abilities. This article focuses on the effects of one arts education project from a school readiness point of view. The main question was, How did the Helsinki arts education project affect the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, School Readiness, Program Effectiveness
Salvador, Karen; Allegood, Kristen – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
This quantitative study examined access to school music instruction with regard to race in two urban areas: Detroit, Michigan, and Washington, DC, in 2009-2010. We found significant differences in the provision of music instruction between schools with high and low proportions of nonwhite enrollment, in categories including curricular offerings,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Access to Education, Urban Areas, Statistical Analysis