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From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking
Lessons Learned from Creating An UnHappy Meal
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2015
Summary
This book follows the course of a year-long experiment in which the students were tasked with recreating a McDonald’s Happy Meal by making all the components - from food to packaging - by hand from local ingredients. It was meant to test a hypothesis that a very well-designed project in the arts can teach high school students academic skills and habits of mind while increasing motivation, emotional intelligence, creativity and holistic thinking skills.
This book is an antidote to other books that purport to show teachers an exact formula to follow to get amazing results in the classroom. It will help to create a classroom that is more like play, with much more freedom and less scripting in order to engage students at a deeper level, and still get excellent results.
By teaching a project-based history class like an arts studio and having the students redesign an archetypal American product in a very natural, improvisational way Werberger was able to have an energizing effect on their academic learning. This book will serve as a guide for teachers to learn more about the adaptive, creative, and epistemologically fascinating concept of arts-based research.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-2460-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-2461-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
159
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Why the Arts Matter in School No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter Two: How to Set the Stage No access Pages 23 - 38
Chapter Three: Building a Culture of Learning and Exploration No access Pages 39 - 54
Chapter Four: Deconstruction No access Pages 55 - 66
Chapter Five: Deconstruction of Self No access Pages 67 - 86
Chapter Six: Making No access Pages 87 - 106
Chapter Seven: Bridging Body, Mind, and Soul No access Pages 107 - 124
Chapter Eight: The Exhibit No access Pages 125 - 144
Chapter Nine: Measuring Success No access Pages 145 - 158
