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    Designing an expressive arts therapy curriculum to support the social-emotional learning skills of Syrian refugee students in Turkey: a validation study
    (2021-09) Yılmaz, Ali Emre
    The researcher used aspects of instructional design in this study to develop and evaluate an eight-week curriculum designed to help improve social-emotional learning (SEL) skills of Syrian refugee students in Turkey. In this aspect, the researcher incorporated a technique called Expressive Arts therapy (EXA) into the curriculum and provided a clear guideline to those wanting to implement EXA in a more purposeful and rigorous way in the school setting. To ensure the validity of the curriculum, a mixture of open-ended and a five-point Likert scale questionnaire was administered to investigate the perceptions of a group of experts from different fields about various aspects of the curriculum. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics of the quantitative data along with content analysis of the participants’ written comments. the results of this study indicated that the EXA activities in the curriculum were feasible, effective and implementing this curriculum in the school setting would be beneficial to promote SEL skills of Syrian refugee students.
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    Designing an expressive arts-based curriculum guide for International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme students: a validation study
    (2022-06) Yılmaz, Edanur Akyüz
    In this study, the researcher employed instructional design principles to create and evaluate a curriculum guide aimed at helping International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) students enhance certain components of emotional intelligence (EI), namely self-awareness and social skills. Regarding the purpose of the study, the researcher developed a guide by incorporating a technic called expressive arts therapy (EXA); it is a professional discipline that capitalizes on different art tools to support the social and emotional well-being of human beings. In this sense, this guide is created to help educators integrate EXA activities into the Creativity, Activity and Service (CAS) programme. To validate the guide, a questionnaire including Likert scales and open-ended items was administered to selected experts from three different areas. The results of the data analysis were used to revise and improve the quality of the guide. The research findings confirmed that the experts agreed that an EXA-based guide has the potential to support these selected components of EI of IBDP students within the scope of CAS.