Indigenous and other marginalized folk art traditions are frequently oral, embodied, and relational, transmitted through apprenticeship, kinship, and ceremony rather than through the fixed, written curricula that formal ...

Contemporary cinema often encourages passive spectatorship through emotional immersion and narrative identification, limiting audiences’ capacity for critical engagement with social and political realities. Although ...

This study investigates how pedagogical authority is enacted and experienced in the contemporary guru–śiṣya pedagogy of Pandit Sanjoy Bandopadhyay and develops a conceptual model explaining the transformation of pedagogical ...

Contemporary actor training increasingly requires interdisciplinary approaches to presence, embodiment, and ensemble practice. This paper examines puppetry’s pedagogical potential through a practice-based case study of ...

Music activities are increasingly recognized as meaningful pedagogical tools for supporting children’s cognitive development in primary education. This study examines how music activities are integrated into primary ...

Dance undergraduates in Sri Lankan traditional dance undergo intensive physical training requiring adequate nutrition for strength, endurance, injury prevention, recovery, and artistic performance. Despite these critical ...

In contemporary performing arts education, the training often prioritizes technical excellence, accuracy, and success-oriented performance. This approach appears to create challenges for students, such as performance ...

Kerala’s traditional performing arts, including Mohiniyattam, Kathakali, and Koodiyattam, are embodied systems of knowledge that preserve centuries of artistic practice, cultural memory, and sophisticated modes of ...

In undergraduate Western music theory education, core concepts such as harmony, key relationships, intervals, and notation are often taught through shortcuts. These include memorized shapes, mnemonics, and quick tricks, ...

Healthy music training depends partly on whether the physical environment supports listening, instrumental practice, floor-based learning and sustained occupation. This paper examines the facilities used by the Department ...