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I Sing The Body Electric: Description Of An Innovative Health Promotion And Fine Arts Program For Adolescents, Kathleen Phillips, Julie Deitz, Mark Borzi, Gaye Harrison Jan 2006

I Sing The Body Electric: Description Of An Innovative Health Promotion And Fine Arts Program For Adolescents, Kathleen Phillips, Julie Deitz, Mark Borzi, Gaye Harrison

Kathleen Phillips

I Sing the Body Electric (BODY ELECTRIC) is a fine arts and health promotion program that supports communication of healthy lifestyle choices among youth. BODY ELECTRIC connects youth in 27 high schools with health and education communities in the largest rural geographic education region in a Midwestern state. The three-phase prevention plan designed to increase resiliency and reduce risk behaviors among adolescents begins with biennial regional administration of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, with added questions designed to identifying the top health concerns of area youth. In the second phase, these health concerns are crafted into prevention messages by youth, …


I Sing The Body Electric: Description Of An Innovative Health Promotion And Fine Arts Program For Adolescents, Kathleen Phillips, Julie Deitz, Mark Borzi, Gaye Harrison Jan 2006

I Sing The Body Electric: Description Of An Innovative Health Promotion And Fine Arts Program For Adolescents, Kathleen Phillips, Julie Deitz, Mark Borzi, Gaye Harrison

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I Sing the Body Electric (BODY ELECTRIC) is a fine arts and health promotion program that supports communication of healthy lifestyle choices among youth. BODY ELECTRIC connects youth in 27 high schools with health and education communities in the largest rural geographic education region in a Midwestern state. The three-phase prevention plan designed to increase resiliency and reduce risk behaviors among adolescents begins with biennial regional administration of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, with added questions designed to identifying the top health concerns of area youth. In the second phase, these health concerns are crafted into prevention messages by youth, …


Integration Of Visual Art With Other Subjects In The Illinois High Schools, Laura Lynn Pottala-Irle Jan 1986

Integration Of Visual Art With Other Subjects In The Illinois High Schools, Laura Lynn Pottala-Irle

Masters Theses

The true nature of this work is to show that integration of visual art is taking place in the Illinois High Schools. This conclusion is the result of a survey sent out to a group of Illinois High Schools. The results show that the Central and Southern Illinois High Schools have more integration of academic subjects incorporated in their curriculum compared to Northern Illinois High Schools. Yet integration of other art subjects are taught more in the Northern Illinois High Schools then the Central or Southern Illinois High Schools. Physical Education proved to be the subject least likely to be …


A Study Of Arts Education In The State Of Illinois, Debbie J. Raymer Jan 1984

A Study Of Arts Education In The State Of Illinois, Debbie J. Raymer

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to reveal the past position and present status of arts programs in general education for the state of Illinois. For the past two decades, the arts have experienced tremendous cutbacks and a general lack of support. This study discloses Illinois' course of action for developing, expanding, and advocating the arts in general education.

The introduction to this study is designed to provide helpful background information on the state of the arts on the national level in order to compare similar problems and progress as achieved by the state of Illinois.

Beginning with the year …


An Analysis Of The Administrative Operation Of Project Abe (Arts In Basic Education) In Community Unit District #1, Charleston, Illinois, Suellyn Garner Jan 1984

An Analysis Of The Administrative Operation Of Project Abe (Arts In Basic Education) In Community Unit District #1, Charleston, Illinois, Suellyn Garner

Masters Theses

The purpose of this field experience was to analyze the administrative operation of a project called Arts in Basic Education (hereafter referred to as Project ABE), of which the author was director. The project was developed through ESEA Title IV-c grants in the six elementary schools of Community Unit District Number One in Charleston, Illinois, from 1978-1982. In 1983, through a contract from the Illinois State Board of Education and the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (Chapter II), Project ABE began a dissemination program which allowed 60 other schools in Illinois to adopt it. This paper is a result of …


An Investigation Into Art Preparation For Teachers Of Mentally Handicapped Children, Larry D. Wilson Jan 1976

An Investigation Into Art Preparation For Teachers Of Mentally Handicapped Children, Larry D. Wilson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Three Projects Attempted By The Flora Grade School District During The 1970-71 School Year, Gerald Hearring Jan 1973

Three Projects Attempted By The Flora Grade School District During The 1970-71 School Year, Gerald Hearring

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study Of The Retarded In Relation To Their Ability To Perceive And Acquire Knowledge Of The Basic Elements Of Art, Tony J. Taylor Jan 1973

A Study Of The Retarded In Relation To Their Ability To Perceive And Acquire Knowledge Of The Basic Elements Of Art, Tony J. Taylor

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Comparative Study Of The Systems Approach To Teaching And Learning And The Traditional Approach To Teaching And Learning As Applied To Art Education, Thomas R. Littrell Jan 1972

A Comparative Study Of The Systems Approach To Teaching And Learning And The Traditional Approach To Teaching And Learning As Applied To Art Education, Thomas R. Littrell

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Motivational Approaches For Use In The Transition Period From Childlike To Adolescent Art, Linda Hance Jan 1969

A Study Of Motivational Approaches For Use In The Transition Period From Childlike To Adolescent Art, Linda Hance

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


An Inquiry Into Art Education In The Public Schools, George B. Lowry Jan 1966

An Inquiry Into Art Education In The Public Schools, George B. Lowry

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


An Illustrative Study Of The Developments And Practices In Art Education In The American Public Schools During The Years From 1900 Through 1910: The Elementary Art Program, Kindergarten Through The Eighth Grade, John Stephen Deyoe Jan 1965

An Illustrative Study Of The Developments And Practices In Art Education In The American Public Schools During The Years From 1900 Through 1910: The Elementary Art Program, Kindergarten Through The Eighth Grade, John Stephen Deyoe

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Present Status Of The Teaching Of Art Appreciation In Public High Schools With Enrollment Of Five Hundred Or More Within The State Of Illinois, Garry Wendell Biggs Jan 1964

The Present Status Of The Teaching Of Art Appreciation In Public High Schools With Enrollment Of Five Hundred Or More Within The State Of Illinois, Garry Wendell Biggs

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Certain Aspects Of Creativity As Related To Artistic Behavior, Michael Eugene Reynolds Jan 1964

A Study Of Certain Aspects Of Creativity As Related To Artistic Behavior, Michael Eugene Reynolds

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Basic Concepts And Audio-Visual Techniques Needed For Teaching Art Appreciation, Vera Ruth Ramsey Jan 1961

Basic Concepts And Audio-Visual Techniques Needed For Teaching Art Appreciation, Vera Ruth Ramsey

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Use Of The Found Object In Dimensional Painting And Its Application To The Elementary, Secondary, And College Art Programs, John Robert Lindstrom Jan 1961

The Use Of The Found Object In Dimensional Painting And Its Application To The Elementary, Secondary, And College Art Programs, John Robert Lindstrom

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Art Education And Appreciation: A Syllabus For High School Teaching, Max I. Briggs Jan 1961

Art Education And Appreciation: A Syllabus For High School Teaching, Max I. Briggs

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Comparative Analysis Of Individual Painting Styles Of Selected Artists And Students, Barbara Marx Fife Jan 1958

A Comparative Analysis Of Individual Painting Styles Of Selected Artists And Students, Barbara Marx Fife

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Experimental Approaches In The Teaching Of Painting, Hannah Newgent Eads Jan 1957

A Study Of Experimental Approaches In The Teaching Of Painting, Hannah Newgent Eads

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Partial Study Of Graphic Arts Instruction In The Junior High Schools Of Illinois, B. H. Franklin Jan 1956

A Partial Study Of Graphic Arts Instruction In The Junior High Schools Of Illinois, B. H. Franklin

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Art In The Junior High School: A Philosophical Study, Lena Weaver Jan 1954

Art In The Junior High School: A Philosophical Study, Lena Weaver

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.