Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arts and Arts Integrated Learning for Middle Level Education

Part 1: Young Adolescent Perspectives; 1. Young Adolescent's Musical Identities and Wellbeing: Narratives of Psychological Needs Satisfaction in Class Music Education; 2. Building Brave Young Adolescents Through Culturally Responsive Arts Education: Lessons from an Indigenous Hoop Dance Project; 3. Connecting Art and Learning: Field Trips' Impact on Young Adolescent Education; 4. Re-imagining Special Education through Arts-centered Learning: A Narrative Case Study of a Lesson on Metacognition using the Creative Research Stages with Exceptional Learners; 5. Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Dance Pedagogy at Ballet Hispanico; Part 2: Curricular Perspectives on Cultivating Young Adolescent Motivation; 6. Designing with the Arts in a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies for Young Adolescents; 7. Research Storytelling in Young Adolescent Science Classrooms: Introducing Stanley the Appalachian Black Bear; 8. Art-space Exploration and Embodiment of Reading Literacy: Reflections on Reader Identity through Object Theatre and Performance during Young Adolescence; 9. Media Arts Education for Young Adolescents; 10. Arts and Culture to Foster Self-determination in Young Adolescent Education: How can Creative Expression and the use of Material Culture Promote Wellbeing and Learning?; 11. Promoting the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Young Adolescents in Visual Arts Classrooms; Part 3: Perspectives on Teacher Improvement; 12. Teachers' Early Development in Arts Integration Through Creative Routines in the Classroom; 13. "You, Me, All-Ah-We": Illuminating Student and Teacher Identities through Young Adolescent Dance and Music on Saint Croix; 14. Music Teachers' Beliefs about Multicultural Music Education for Young Adolescents; 15. Finding Joy: Inviting Middle Level Preservice Teachers into the Performing Arts; 16. Supporting Young Adolescent Literacy through Drama/Theater Arts: Experiences from Two Teacher-Researcher Collaborations Co-Designing for Arts Integration