In 1974, Hoots classified historical philosophies of elementary-school industrial arts (ESIA) into four categories: subject matter, in which children would study technology and its social impacts (e.g., Gilbert, 1966); arts and crafts, consisting of what Hoots (1974) called “concrete manipulative activities” (p. 225); method of teaching, in which industrial arts delivered, reinforced, and enric...

Effectively teaching introductory media signal processing (MSP) to students requires a means of communicating complex concepts without advanced mathematics. At the Media Arts and Technology program at UCSB we are teaching graduate media arts students concepts of MSP. These students, while interested in learning how their digital tools work, have an incredibly tough time working through the mate...

This study explores the integration of the arts into the teaching of science nonfiction texts during literacy instruction. Sixty-one elementary students (15 second graders, 25 third graders, and 21 fifth graders) attending schools of differing socio-economic levels participated in this study. The study examined the effects of arts-integration on student content knowledge, engagement level, and ...

During a 15-month period between February 2010 and April 2011, video data on (n1⁄4 38) people with dementia were collected during a person-centered and intergenerational arts activity program called Opening Minds through Art (OMA) at three different long-term care facilities in Ohio. A subsample of the OMA participants (n1⁄4 10) were also video recorded during traditional visual arts activities...

Research evidence for the benefits of arts integration is mounting. The purpose of this study was to determine if integration of the arts was an effective strategy for teaching the water cycle to kindergarten students. The study included lessons that supported both a science and an engineering standard of the Next Generation Science Standards and national arts standards. The phenomenological st...

In this modern many artists use painting as an effort to preserve local arts, including in West Java, the art of Sundanese people, which is still preserved until now. We have encountered paintings that present such wayang golek, jaipong dance, or elements batik motifs become synonymous with styles are presented urban communities. The emergence traditional style by painters like inviting us unde...