Parent involvement and family-school partnerships have been shown to lead to positive effects on children’s academic achievement. A meta-analysis was conducted to synthesize the empirical literature on parent involvement and family-school partnership interventions across children’s language arts achievement outcomes. Using a multivariate regression model, 168 effect sizes within 45 studies publ...

In this article, we situate arts-based health research in the contextual background of evidencebased medicine, knowledge translation and qualitative health research to explain why the ethics of doing arts-based health research has received little attention until now. Then, we present an overview of the ethical issues reported in scientific publications by arts-based health researchers. Finally,...

This article describes the development and implementation of an eight-session expressive arts group therapy provided at a middle school on an active military base with youth from active military families. The structure and process of expressive arts group therapy is described with reference to goals and objectives and the integration of the multi-modal expressive arts approach within a psychoso...

Background: Arts in medicine programs have significant impacts on patients and staff in long-term care environments, but the literature lacks evidence of effectiveness on hospital units with shorter average lengths of stay. Methods: The qualitative study used individual structured interviews to assess the impacts of arts programming on job satisfaction, stress, unit culture, support, quality of...

Cultural studies frequently rely on the arts to reveal traditions, history, ideologies, and other aspects of a particular group. However, at what point and how are child readers asked to consider the significance of the arts to individuals’ cultural lives? This paper shares an inquiry that addresses how children’s literature, outside being a distinctive art form in itself, can offer stories tha...

By its academic-aristocratic approach at the beginning, and the mere artistic vision of art afterwards, Beaux Arts had become the cottage of hopes and dreams for art-lovers and artists from Iran and all around the world. Accordingly, Iran, like many other countries, has had consecutive associations and interactions with these schools, especially beaux-arts school, in qualitative and quantitativ...