Learning by interactive arts methods is a non-traditional approach to new creative teaching methods, in which young children are simultaneously engaged to feel and understand the original concept of core content areas in education, such as science, technology and math from a broad perspective. This article is an attempt to investigate the question of “how to keep young children’s creativity ali...

Medical Education 2011: 45: 217-226 Objectives  The view that training in communication skills produces skilled communication is sometimes criticised by those who argue that communication is individual and intuitive. We therefore examine the validity of the concept of communication as a skill and identify alternative principles to underpin future development of this field. Methods  We criticall...

There is a lack of ‘explicit education’ of different modes of creativity and different methodologies for initiating creative processes. This is important for not only art practitioners, but specifically for developers of tools that support creative processes. The workshop, titled the “Creating-CreativeProcesses-Workshop”, will demonstrate how a series of short exercises can provide a brief expe...

the goal followed in this study was to determine the impact of in technical- vocational education course participation (during years 2000-04) of the ministry of agricultural jihad's staff members on their professional efficacy. research method was a descriptive-correlational one and data gathering done through researcher-made questionnaire. the validity (based on expert opinion) as well as...

Subjects for which aesthetics and creative performance are critical curricular dimensions (such as art, physical education, music, and technology education), and which are accommodative of students across the range of intelligences (Gardner, 1999) are not readily or completely captured by content standards. Therefore content knowledge in these fields that target student achievement as conventio...

Abstract This paper reports a model for professional development early childhood arts education. The research delivered co-mentoring programme between years teachers and artists, which applied process of ‘creative exchange’, in across period 2 years, 12 educators two teaching artists participated. Common principles underpinning education include recognition the critical role experiences relatio...