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Parental involvement and engagement during COVID‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's (N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities.
Ashley Brett   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Music education in adulthood: introdutory aspects

open access: yesRevista da Tulha, 2015
We observe, through the practice of music education in conservatories, free schools of music and private music lessons in the city of Ribeirão Preto, the growing demand for musical instrument lessons by adults beginners.
Adriana Moraes dos Santos Dias
doaj   +1 more source

Ars Informatica -- Ars Electronica: Improving Sonification Aesthetics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In this paper we discuss æsthetic issues of sonifications. We posit that many sonifications have suffered from poor acoustic ecology which makes listening more difficult, thereby resulting in poorer data extraction and inference on the part of the ...
Vickers, Paul
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Culturally responsive classrooms through art integration

open access: yes, 2010
Integrating arts into teaching and learning can result in more engaging classrooms for students of all backgrounds. Addressing content through drawing, painting, music, drama, sculpture, and manipulatives results in motivating lessons that reach diverse ...
Grant, Leslie, Reif, Nancy
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Trademark Parody: Lessons From the Copyright Decision in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Parodies have long provided many of us with amusement, entertainment,and sometimes even information. An effective parody can convey one or more messages with powerful effect. The message may be a political statement, social commentary, commercial speech,
Myers, Gary
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What works in internal alternative provision? A salutogenic analysis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Schools across England are setting up ‘internal alternative provision’ to meet the social, emotional and mental health needs of increasing numbers of pupils at risk of suspension, exclusion and absence. However, there is little guidance about what good practice looks like.
Emma Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Tolerance and Music Preference: The Effect of Interdisciplinary Lessons on Students’ Aesthetic Response

open access: yesPsicologia, 2005
The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of interdisciplinary lessons on students’ aesthetic preference for African and Asian music.
Mário Gomes de Figueirêdo   +1 more
doaj  

Oblique strategies for ambient journalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Alfred Hermida recently posited ‘ambient journalism’ as a new framework for para- and professional journalists, who use social networks like Twitter for story sources, and as a news delivery platform.
Burns, Alex
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Exploratory study of approvals and disapprovals in Australian instrumental music teaching [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Research on the use of approvals/disapprovals in classroom teaching has highlighted praise as more effective than criticism, specific evaluation more valuable than general, and gender differences.
Zhukov, Katie
core   +1 more source

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