1. Source Log
Madeline Denton

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A Journey from STEM to STEAM: A Middle School Case Study by Tracey Hunter-Doniger and Lindsey Sydow 1. Hunter-Doniger: Department of Teacher Education, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA Sydow: School of Education, Health, and Human Performance, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA 2. This text is fairly unbiased. The authors are educators, so they are searching to find the most effective way to teach students. The writing is based off of a study compared STEM and STEAM education, so it has data results that are unbiased.
-“Encourages students to learn from experiences, make mistakes, explore multiple iterations of a problem, and realize the practical rationale behind the process. “… same with faculty.
CONTENT:
-This article says yes, the arts incorporated in schools is beneficial to learning.
-Increased faculty satisfaction- 93% agreed with STEAM.
-There are obstacles to including arts- lack of time mainly, lack of funding, less research, informal standards and objectives.
-The study shows effectiveness of STEAM- an 8% improvement of test scores over one year.
THIS SOURCE WILL ALLOW ME TO ARGUE: that incorporating the arts in school is beneficial because it teaches the students new skills increases test scores and faculty satisfaction.
-Teachers who once did not support STEAM changed to like the idea after the study.

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The Benefits of Art Education By Catherine Grytting 1. Grytting is an arts educator, and has a PHD in Educational Leadership and a master of arts degree. 2. Biased because the author is an arts advocate, and shares only the benefits of an arts education. Yet, it is her personal experiences and observations and she is an educated person.
CONTENT:
-Fostering a joy of learning- flow loss of sense of time while being creative.
-Art classes support the development of special, kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences.
-Shares a study where academic performance improved with visual arts.
-Emotional growth, social growth.
Creativity helps people become leaders and to identify problems and create new ideas.
-Art is inspiring,
THIS SOURCE WILL ALLOW ME TO ARGUE: the many different ways art benefits students. Listing off different benefits.

4. Sources from Research Proposal

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Community and Art: creative education fostering resilience through art Hyungsook Kim
The author, Hyungsook Kimof the source, “Community and Art: creative education fostering resilience through art” is a professor at the College of Fine Arts Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. She has been published in many other scholarly journals on the topics of art, education, and culture. This article can be found in the Asia Pacific Education Review, which is a credible academic journal. Kim’s writing is definitely the most credible because of her education, the journal’s reputation, and the use of strong research. “Community and Art” is an organized source with good supporting details. Although the study is a bit bias- due to the fact that Kim is an arts educator trying to promote the arts- she tries to stay as objective as possible through solid research. I plan to keep this source in my final paper because of its positive research with solid evidence. It brings new information to my topic, which is important to strengthen my argument and to avoid stereotypical evidence.

6. Creativity is Not Enough by Theodore Levitt2
Creativity is Not Enough by Theodore Levitt
The final source, “Creativity is Not Enough by Theodore Levitt is found in the Harvard Business review. It was the only counter-argumentative source that seemed somewhat credible. Levitt was a professor at Harvard Business School and worked as an editor for the Harvard Business review. He is a credible person to be submitting information on business as a topic, although not for art and creativity. His research brings up the negative aspects to creativity in the workplace, which is his opinion. Although Levitt’s views should be taken into account, there are far more reasons why creativity benefits society in contrasts to how it doesn’t in a business setting. I am planning to keep this source because it gives a good perspective on an opposing point of view. The article does not bring up art education at all, but it does provide a stance on creativity. It may be as stretch, but I am hoping to connect the two topics through my final writing piece. I am hoping to find more credible sources that include a counterargument for my research question.

7. Art, Creativity, and the Quality of Education by Jon Murray3
Art, Creativity, and the Quality of Education by Jon Murray
The next source is “Art, Creativity, and the Quality of Education” by Jon Murray was published in Daedalus, which is a Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The source claims to bring in “the nation’s most prominent thinkers” which authoritative essays. Although this source is peer reviewed, it does not strike me to be as credible as it could be. Jon Murray is a high school art teacher, and his information does not show up in a Google search. The article was written in the 1980’s, so although the information is a true account, it may be outdated in this day and time. Murray’s education is not made clear; the only piece of credibility is that he has worked as a high school art teacher and has been published by a known journal. He is biased because of his personal experiences- an art teacher who advocates for creativity. Although, his experiences make his information a primary source- based on his own observations through his career. I am planning to keep this source because of its fundamental reasons towards the benefits of art education, although it does not bring up especially complex research for the topic.