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In this eBook, I provide a rich resource for artists, designers, teachers and design students. I include a short clothing and fashion design overview over the past 700 years of Māori in New Zealand. I start with traditional clothing and then progress to AI-inspired clothing-a modern and contemporary approach. See the AI images generated by Midjourney/Discord. Extravagant Māori shapes, forms, patterns and colours are included. The images will provide...
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Resurrecting Artwork: A Guide to Acting Out Artwork with Children by Susan H. McGuire takes readers on a journey through an art museum, finding ways to spark children's interest by making connections with the artwork. Paintings and sculpture come to life through employing creative drama and movement strategies.
Students in undergraduate and graduate programs in Museology will learn innovative methods for interpreting and understanding artwork through...
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The purpose of the present monograph is to offer teachers and learners of English a comprehensive pedagogical guide to two of the most complex constructions in English, namely phrasal verbs and modals. As such, the book presents a fresh introduction to the use of the cognitive approach in the context of pedagogical grammar.
The reader will find a short introduction to the cognitive conceptualization of language with a special emphasis on phrasal and...
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“Fundamental Principles All Parents Should Know About Montessori Education” One of the best and useful occurrences in the education world was the birth of the Montessori Method to classrooms. Its advent was a long-awaited response to the need for a functional and focused education method. If you understand the importance of raising children the right way and grooming them with the right method, you will appreciate the effectiveness of Montessori...
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Unlock your students' creative potential by exploring the intersections between CS and art across various types of artistic media, including drawing, animation, music and physically interactive art.
While there are books that discuss the intersection of the arts and computer science (CS), there are none written for K-12 teachers that cover the content overlaps between CS and the arts beyond a single programming environment, and that feature approaches...
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Raja Kumar, the acclaimed ebook writer, has mastered the art of visualization in a way that captivates readers and transports them to vivid realms of imagination. Through his unique approach to storytelling, Kumar weaves intricate narratives that are not just words on a page, but rather, immersive experiences that unfold in the reader's mind.His skillful use of descriptive language creates a tapestry of images, allowing readers to vividly envision...
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Good teaching-even great teaching-can fail because of one thing, one unbeatable thing, and it has nothing to do with how well you teach or how committed your students may be. Instead, it has to do with the chemistry of the brain. We can agree that most of us are stressed-students and teachers alike. And when, we are stressed, the brain produces chemicals that block the channels to learning and remembering.
These chemicals stay forever. There is only...
28) A/r/tography
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The focus of this edited book is to evoke and provoke conceptual conversations between early a/r/tographic publications and the contemporary scholarship of a/r/tographers publishing and producing today. Working around four pervasive themes found in a/r/tographic literature, this volume addresses relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials.
In doing so, it advances concepts that...
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In the pre-digital era, the age of mechanical reproduction, the New York Public Library's Picture Collection provided the free circulation of prints, photographs, postcards and other clippings to its constituency of artists, illustrators, advertisers, and businessmen. It was, in essence, the Google Images of its day. Since its initial beginnings in 1914 the Picture Collection has been a unique public service for New York City's thriving educational,...
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Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and mural painting to performance art and poetry, the contributors explore how the process of creating together generates and disseminates collective knowledge. The artistic processes and works...
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Most parents think of music as a way to help their children sleep or soothe their nerves when upset, but the truth is that every time you sing to your child, something incredibly important is happening. Singing is one of the most natural experiences to share with your children and now we know even more through scientific research about the power of music to assist in your child's cognitive and physical development. Written by Dr. Anita Collins, The...
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You went to your first Contact Improvisation (C.I.) class, or a friend invited you to the weekly jam, and you're captivated. Or perhaps, you've been dancing and investigating for years. What's next? What discoveries await you in your dance?
In 1972, Steve Paxton convened a group of athletes and dancers to research the principles of Contact Improvisation. Since then the form has matured into a worldwide, collaborative experiment with no central control....
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Los abuelos tienen mucho para enseñarnos, y cuando se trata de los abuelos mayas (esos a los que llamamos "nahuales"), aprendemos de ellos el por qué de muchas cosas cotidianas. Por ejemplo, ¿por qué a veces se cierra sola la puerta de casa¿ o ¿por qué sopla tan fuerte el viento? o ¿de dónde viene el arcoíris?
Julio Serrano revisó la tradición oral maya y escogió seis historias que transformó en los cuentos que forman parte de la serie...
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Ah l'école! Une invention de Charlemagne, probablement pour se venger des enfants... Un lieu o tout est permis, à condition bien sûr de maîtriser l'art des excuses et des mauvais coups. Mais bientt, l'enseignante exaspérée deviendra irritable, et son remplaçant perdra vite sa bonne humeur. Quant aux gamins, ils devront écouter les sages paroles de Luna, qui leur rappellera que l'école a ses défauts, mais surtout ses nombreux avantages.
Une...
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This is book I of the "Augsburg's Drawing" series, a three-book course designed to teach children how to draw. Book I is the teacher's handbook, showing simple and effective methods of teaching drawing, including colouring, to children in the first, second, and third grades. Highly recommended for teachers and parents alike. Contents include: "First Years of Drawing", "Drawing from Memory and the Imagination", "Action Drawing", "Ambidextrous of Two-handed...
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Want to write novels, that feel real, enough to the reader to have been, ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Looking at the questions journalists ask can help you think of the characters and events in your story as real people, whose lives you are recording, just like, you were writing memoir or a news article.
Approach planning your novel the way a journalist plans, out writing a news piece. They figure out what...
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This is Book II of "Augsburg's Drawing", a series designed for school students within which Augsburg's Drawing System is explained and taught. Intended for the use of students in grades four to eight, it contains the essentials of Free Hand Drawing and was designed to be used as a text book. Each subject is treated topically and is arranged so as to give the greatest flexibility in teaching. Contents include: "General Outline", "The Perspective Principle",...
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"Me? Teach art? I don't even know how to draw!!"
Many of us started there. We felt a total lack of confidence about teaching art. We wanted to give our children all the benefits of art in their education but didn't know how. Some of us did a few colorful hands-on projects with our children, but we could see they weren't really learning the basics of art. We had never learned the basics of art ourselves.
But then, after a few years of teaching art...
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The Arts & You has more than a thousand quotations of artists and art critics, compiled from journal articles and books of the last two hundred years, on painting, sculpture, photography, garden arts, architecture, poetry, music, dance, theater, and literature.
They are a treasure for learning the power of the arts to:
• Increase your happiness
• Give your life purpose
• Deepen your understanding of yourself and others
• Help identify and...
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