Advocating for the academic value of community-based art education requires empirical evidence that students are not just participating in community-building activities, but also effectively learning content. Unfortunately, little is known about short- and long-term cognitive outcomes on student participants, particularly higher education. Based a phenomenological methodology with reflective li...

Working with and through art in the context of mental health has become popular and quite well known amongst social workers, community workers, nurses, artists and teachers. Many seek art therapy skills, and agreater understandingof theuseof art inhealing. In parts of theworldwhere there is noprofessional art therapy training and no established art therapy profession, some may go on to call the...

ABSTRACT- Agricultural extension agents should provide dry land producers with appropriate education to make them more interested in learning about water use optimization. Therefore, it is recommended to accompany education with art. In this regard, a study, using the randomized experimental research design, was carried out among dry land grape producers in Herayjan village, Southwest Iran, usi...

Historically, approaches to exploring complexity have mainly focused on the notion that complex problems must be deconstructed into simpler parts if we are to make sense of them; this is the so-called reductionist approach. When dealing with the complexity of human experience, however, deconstructing the experience without diminishing it is a daunting, perhaps impossible task. Researchers wishi...

Good or poor nutrition education begins in early life. Often reinforced by misguided parental threats and entreaties, the preschool child, within the framework of personal preference, usually displays uncritical acceptance of family eating patterns. When he first enters school he regards his own eating habits, whether the emphasis is on pie and chips, meat and two vegetables or on vegan fare, a...

Art Education through the Constituent Elements of Science Curriculum M. Entezaami  M. SeyfNaraaghi, Ph.D. E. Naaderi, Ph.D. Art education is emphasized within the elementary school curriculum, yet ways of implementing it are rather vague. Given that such an education would include the development of all senses, and improvements in esthetics, imagination, and creativity, on th...

in this paper we argue about knowledge management (km) and its implications for academic productivity with focus on models of changes in knowledge production posited by gibbons et al and community model of knowledge management, especially in a transitional society as iran.  based on the above argument, we have discussed the relationships between research and teaching productivity, briefly. beca...

Dwimatra and trimatra are currently the main material for university fine arts courses. As a partner campus MBKM program, it is obligatory to provide compulsory courses in two dimensions three dimensions. However, this course prone learning misconceptions. process that prioritizes aesthetics, students not provided an optimal environment understanding experiencing aesthetics due lack of accessib...