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Introduction
We believe that teaching and learning are creative acts that mirror a kind of dance where partners play different but interdependent roles, where the dance involves improvisation as well as the learning of set techniques. In this presentation, we present the inclusion of a graduate level course that attempts to prepare teacher candidates to integrate the arts and other creative acts and processes as a natural and essential part of the curriculum.
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"Creativity is the ability to think in unique ways, produce unusual ideas, or combine things in different ways," (Isbell & Raines, 2007, p. 3)
Students reliving the arts in the MAT Elementary Education degree program at James Madison University