Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts
Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts

Author: Silton, Nava R.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1522505059

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The use of imagination can lead to greater outcomes in problem solving, innovation, and critical thinking. By providing access to creative outlets, productivity increases in schools, businesses, and other professional settings. Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the stimulation and implementation of creative thinking in academic and professional environments. Highlighting the foundations of creativity from theoretical and neuroscientific perspectives, this book is ideally designed for academics, professionals, educators, and practitioners.

Interpretation of Visual Arts Across Societies and Political Culture: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Interpretation of Visual Arts Across Societies and Political Culture: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Merviö, Mika Markus

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-03-03

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1522525556

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It is thought that every work of art possesses multiple interpretations, depending on each viewer. Analyzing personal assessments of artwork can help enable us to gain an understanding of one another, as well as broaden our own opinions and views. Interpretation of Visual Arts Across Societies and Political Culture: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a detailed reference source that breaks down the ways art can be evaluated, and addresses how this type of analysis can influence an array of social groups and regions. Highlighting relevant topics such as artistic impression, modern art, culture wars, and freedom of expression, this publication is an ideal resource for artists, academics, students, and researchers that are interested in expanding their knowledge of the arts.

Assessing and Measuring Statistics Cognition in Higher Education Online Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Assessing and Measuring Statistics Cognition in Higher Education Online Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Chase, Justin P.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1522524215

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The ability to effective learn, process, and retain new information is critical to the success of any student. Since mathematics are becoming increasingly more important in our educational systems, it is imperative that we devise an efficient system to measure these types of information recall. Assessing and Measuring Statistics Cognition in Higher Education Online Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical reference source that overviews the current state of higher education learning assessment systems. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant topics such as statistical cognitions, online learning implications, cognitive development, and curricular mismatches, this publication is ideally designed for academics, students, educators, professionals, and researchers seeking innovative perspectives on current assessment and measurement systems within our educational facilities.

Metasystems Learning Design of Open Textbooks: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Metasystems Learning Design of Open Textbooks: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Railean, Elena

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-07-06

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1522553061

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Universal access to high-quality education plays an important role in the building of peace, sustainable social and economic development, and intercultural dialogue. Providing research on the quality and understanding of open education allows for successful learning strategies and educational sustainability. Metasystems Learning Design of Open Textbooks: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that discusses the role of open education in improving the quality of education, as well as facilitating policy dialogue, knowledge sharing, and capacity building. Featuring research on topics such as design theory, competence development, and adaptive learning, this book is ideally designed for educators, academicians, education administrators, curriculum developers, and researchers seeking coverage on the functional models of open education and the diversity of open educational resources.

Creativity and Education
Creativity and Education

Author: Anne Harris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1137572248

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This book advances an environmental approach to enhancing creativity in schools, by interweaving educational creativity theory with creative industries environmental approaches. Using Anna Craft’s last book Creativity and Education Futures as a starting point, the book sets out an up-to-date argument for why education policy should be supporting a birth-to-workplace approach to developing creative skills and capacities that extends across the education lifespan. The book also draws on the voices of school teachers, students and leaders who suggest directions for the next generation of creative teachers and learners in a rapidly evolving global education landscape. Overall, the book argues that secondary schools must find a way to make more room for creative risk, innovation and imagination in order to adequately prepare students for creative workplaces and publics.

New Media and Visual Communication in Social Networks
New Media and Visual Communication in Social Networks

Author: K?r, Serpil

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-08-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1799810453

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Social media and new social facilities have made it necessary to develop new media design processes with different communication strategies in order to promote sustainable communication. Visual communication emphasizes messages that are transmitted through visual materials in order to effectively communicate emotions, thoughts, and concepts using symbols instead of words. Social networks present an ideal environment for utilizing this communication technique. New Media and Visual Communication in Social Networks is a pivotal scholarly publication that examines communication strategies in the context of social media and new digital media platforms and explores the effects of visual communication on social networks, visual identity, television, magazines, newspapers, and more. Highlighting a range of topics such as consumer behavior, visual identity, and digital pollution, this book is essential for researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and educators.

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art

Author: Soares, Celia

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-06-26

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1799836711

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New media has been gaining importance in the academic world as well as the artistic world through the concept of new media art. As the connections between art and communication technologies grow and further embrace a wide range of concepts, interpretations, and applications, the number of disciplines that will be touched will likewise continue to expand. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art is a collection of innovative research on the methods and intersections between new media, artistic practices, and digital technologies. While highlighting topics including audience relationship, digital art, and computer animation, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, high-level art students, and art professionals.

Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media
Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media

Author: Endong, Floribert Patrick C.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-06-28

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1522593144

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Much of what the world knows about the United States of America is constructed and spread through global media. One can hardly find a country where news events involving the U.S.A. do not attract media attention, controversy, or at least invoke some level of critical thought. Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media provides emerging research exploring how non-American media covers and represents the U.S.A. through a critical review that demonstrates how foreign media representations of the country have varied according to periods in history, political leadership, and current ideological and socio-cultural affinities. The publication also conversely examines Americans’ perceptions of foreign media representations of their country. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as neocolonialism, political science, and popular culture, this book is ideally designed for students, scholars, media specialists, policymakers, international relation experts, politicians, and other professionals seeking current research on different perspectives on non-American media’s representation of the U.S.A. and Americans.

Scientific Concepts Behind Happiness, Kindness, and Empathy in Contemporary Society
Scientific Concepts Behind Happiness, Kindness, and Empathy in Contemporary Society

Author: Silton, Nava R.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-07-20

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1522559191

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Significant progress has been made in the study of human psychology in recent years. However, the human pursuit of happiness through the use of scientific methods has yet to be fully examined. Scientific Concepts Behind Happiness, Kindness, and Empathy in Contemporary Society is an essential reference source that offers in-depth studies that anchor concepts of happiness, kindness, wellbeing, and empathy from a scientific perspective. Featuring research on topics such as cognitive revolution, neurobiology of wellbeing, and rational emotive behavior therapy, this book is ideally designed for sociologists, academicians, psychology professionals, researchers, and graduate-level students seeking scientific coverage on happiness, kindness, and empathy.

Curriculum Integration in Contemporary Teaching Practice: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Curriculum Integration in Contemporary Teaching Practice: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Brown, Susannah

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-12-30

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1522540660

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Teaching and learning practices that are interconnected and value all subject areas benefit K-12 students by supporting creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration. Curriculum Integration in Contemporary Teaching Practice: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential scholarly resource that presents detailed information on the benefits and implementation of STREAMSS (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies), an interdisciplinary curriculum that meets K-12 students’ diverse needs by placing equal emphasis on multiple avenues of learning. Highlighting topics such as educational science and technology, curriculum development, and instructional design, this book is an ideal resource for students, academicians, researchers, and librarians seeking current information on interdisciplinary education.