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Aesthetic Scanning: Refining Critical Thinking Through Oral Language Activities, Elaine Diana Golledge Jan 2007

Aesthetic Scanning: Refining Critical Thinking Through Oral Language Activities, Elaine Diana Golledge

Theses Digitization Project

This study examines the use of aesthetics in the art education curriculum as a strategy for building oral language skills and critical thinking skills. In this study reproduced artworks were used to stimulate discussion; students learned to scan paintings using a technique called aesthetic scanning during which they learn how to look at a painting orally through guided questioning by the classroom teacher. It was concluded that providing oral language opportunities through the implementation of the aesthetic scanning program was an effective way to promote oral language skills and critical thinking skills in the kindergarten classroom. Arts, as a core …


Socioeconomic Status And Domains Of Creativity: Is The Artist Really Starving?, Michelle Louise Evans Jan 2007

Socioeconomic Status And Domains Of Creativity: Is The Artist Really Starving?, Michelle Louise Evans

Theses Digitization Project

Socioeconomic status (SES) influences many aspects of a person's life, and stereotypes concerning level of SES and the domain of creativity exist. It was hypothesized that children classified as low SES would perform more creatively in the visual arts and language arts domains of creativity than in the mathematic and scientific domains.