EDU 290 Imagine/Create/Connect/Perform
This course incorporates literacy with the concepts and skills of art, music and drama education. We will examine and implement the "Performance Cycle" pedagogical approach that was first developed at Brown University. Students explore the pedagogy learning how the process of the art forms allows for deeper contextual comprehension.During the term as we mentor a group of P-12 students through the "Performance Cycle," we will put theory into practice. Students’ final work will be exhibited for the larger community in the form of art, music or drama. This course will be very interactive and community-based! This course is appropriate for students interested in drama, dance, music, art, and/or literature; future educators attentive to innovative strategies for both teaching and learning; psychology majors or education minors interested in the effects of kinesthetic approaches to learning on cognitive development or the connection between the arts and learning.