Arts education and educating with arts

2College of Arts,Low and Education, University of Tasmania, Australia

In the globalization era, some translation scholars are of the belief that the ongoing process of globaliza- tion among different and diverse languages and cultures brings about incomprehensibility in translation products. By contrast, some others believe that the globalization trend leads to comprehensible transla- tions. The present research investigates the comprehensibility of the Per...

Literature and the arts in medical education.

Editor’s Note: In this column, teachers who are currently using literary and artistic materials as part of their curricula will briefly summarize specific works, delineate their purposes and goals in using these media, describe their audience and teaching strategies, discuss their methods of evaluation, and speculate about the impact of these teaching tools on learners (and teachers). Submissio...

The Arts and Australian Education: Realising potential

Arts and humanities in palliative nursing education.

Florence Nightingale, recognized as the founder of professional nursing, is credited as an early voice acknowledging nursing as an inherently artistic endeavor. Many nursing leaders have subsequently described the practice of nursing also as an intimate endeavor in which nurses care for patients at the most private and stressful times of life. Nowhere is this more important than in the area of ...

“Possibilism” and Expectations in Arts Education

There is no way anyone can meet any situation without expectations. In this article expectations are discussed in relation to different arts-educational contexts and perspectives with an aim to discuss how conscious use of expectations can be an asset in arts education, in relating to the arts and in life. Through the use of the term “possibilism” coined by Arns Næss, the article concludes that...