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Article: A CLOSER LOOK: Student Engagement in Artmaking

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July 1, 2009
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It was a Tuesday morning when I entered the art room storage closet to gather the old hardback books for my students. My eighth-grade students seemed to have a sense of urgency to start their work after I explained that they would design a book cover representing who they were "on the outside." Several students rushed back with me, trying to get old hardback books from the closet, even though I only asked two students for help. When I looked up from the books, the other students were so excited to choose books that they were all standing inside the closet. I was in the initial stages of a descriptive research study about student engagement in artmaking and that is why I was so tuned into ...

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