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Substance use and attendance motives of electronic dance music (EDM) event attendees : a survey study Ghent University
EDM event attendees are a high-risk population for substance use and associated adverse effects. The aim of this study was to examine substance use at EDM events, focusing on associations between attendance motives and substance use. Sociodemographic characteristics, event specifics, past-year use, and attendance motives were assessed through an online survey. Participants were 1345 Belgian EDM event attendees (69.44% male, Mage = 22.63, SDage = ...
Arts and cultural education: contents and outcomes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1. Context
Policy levels
In Belgium, there are 3 policy levels responsible for person-related issues like cultural matters and education. Various actors in the Flemish Community are responsible for the implementation of arts and cultural education policy. Policy implementation mainly originates from the policy domains of firstly the Ministry of Education and Training and secondly the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sports and ...
Policy levels
In Belgium, there are 3 policy levels responsible for person-related issues like cultural matters and education. Various actors in the Flemish Community are responsible for the implementation of arts and cultural education policy. Policy implementation mainly originates from the policy domains of firstly the Ministry of Education and Training and secondly the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sports and ...
Battle of the ballet household decisions on arts consumption Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Women and men differ in their tastes for the performing arts. Gender differences have been shown to persist after accounting for socioeconomic factors. This paper uses this difference to shed light on how decisions on arts consumption are made in households. Based on relatively recent theoretical developments in the literature on household decision-making, we use three different so-called distribution factors to show for the first time that the ...
Enhancing divergent thinking in in visual arts education University of Antwerp
BACKGROUND: The main purposes of visual arts education concern the enhancement of students' creative processes and the originality of their art products. Divergent thinking is crucial for finding original ideas in the initial phase of a creative process that aims to result in an original product. AIMS: This study aims to examine the effects of explicit instruction of meta-cognition on students' divergent thinking. SAMPLE AND METHOD: A ...
Who participates and how much? Explaining non-attendance and the frequency of attending arts and heritage activities Ghent University
The blind spot in studies on arts participation: the non-attender Ghent University
Visual arts training is linked to flexible attention to local and global levels of visual stimuli KU Leuven
Observational drawing skill has been shown to be associated with the ability to focus on local visual details. It is unclear whether superior performance in local processing is indicative of the ability to attend to, and flexibly switch between, local and global levels of visual stimuli. It is also unknown whether these attentional enhancements remain specific to observational drawing skill or are a product of a wide range of artistic ...
Research note: the other side of the stage, revealing compositional differences in Flemish amateur theatre audiences Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This research note aims to address the lack of research focused on the audiences of amateur theatre and examines how audiences of artistic- (i.e. participating in festivals with high artistic requirements) and social- (i.e. not participating in those festivals with high artistic requirements) oriented amateur theatre groups differ. This is achieved by performing a quantitative study of eight amateur theatre audiences in Flanders (Belgium). ...
Tai-sabaki for the piano, tai-sabaki for the tatami : a tribute to Prof. em. David B. Waterhouse (1936-2017) Ghent University
David B. Waterhouse (1936-2017) was a Professor emeritus, Japanese studies scholar, and humanities polymath. Educated to concert pianist level, he graduated in Western Classics, Moral Sciences, and Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge. It is there where during his freshman year he had attended for first time a live jūdō demonstration, and had decided to start his jūdō career. Professor Waterhouse would eventually join the University ...