This paper turns our attention to the arts and New Literacy Studies as an understudied area in the learning sciences. Our study documents, describes, and analyzes urban youths’ Media Arts Practices within a Computer Clubhouse, drawing on the New Literacy Studies movement and work on authentic practices. Results indicated that youth engaged in at least eight literate practices aligned with profe...

In this paper some of the intriguing links between the arts and medicine are explored. As a starting point I consider the notion of whole person understanding as articulated by Downie in an article entitled "Literature and medicine", published in the Journal of Medical Ethics in 1991.(1) I suggest that the arts can contribute to whole person understanding in at least three ways. The arts may st...

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 ...

Given the acknowledged and undeniable advantages of literature in language education, it has been integrated into EFL curricula for undergraduate students as an essential subject. In Algerian English departments before reform introduced last two decades (the Licence, Master, doctorate system), used to have a privileged status terms number courses classes or tutorials. However, after reform, imp...

since the time of western modernity, knowledge is compartmentalized into differentiated fields. this has however not mitigated the influence of natural science model of theorizing on social sciences. as a result, the discipline of organization theory has grown without the influence of abstract, ephemeral and metaphysical fields such as religion, history, mystic philosophy, arts and literature. ...

One of the least-explored areas in the field of Hispanic literary studies is the interrelationship between the visual arts and literature. Although there have been far-reaching developments in the field of the visual arts and in comparative approaches to literary studies, there has been little production in the confluences of the visual arts and literature and the cultural projection and dissem...