Did you know that . . .
We live in a visual age. Most children and youth spend 10 hours per day in front of screens composed of pictures and words, often two types of screens at once.
The arts provide jobs. 1.25 million Americans currently work in the visual arts. Jobs for artists and designers are predicted to increase by 43% by 2016.
Art education equips students to form mental images, which can be used to solve problems—an ability that chemists, engineers, and architects use to create models and that inventors use to think up new ideas.
Art education requires students to use their eyes and hands to give form to ideas generated in the brain—a discipline that Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel proved boosts brain power. Research also indicates that high school art programs engage students and keep in school those at-risk of dropping out.
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1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
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http://www.arteducators.org/advocacy/10-lessons-the-arts-teach#sthash.5YlhTpGK.dpuf
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We live in a visual age. Most children and youth spend 10 hours per day in front of screens composed of pictures and words, often two types of screens at once.
The arts provide jobs. 1.25 million Americans currently work in the visual arts. Jobs for artists and designers are predicted to increase by 43% by 2016.
Art education equips students to form mental images, which can be used to solve problems—an ability that chemists, engineers, and architects use to create models and that inventors use to think up new ideas.
Art education requires students to use their eyes and hands to give form to ideas generated in the brain—a discipline that Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel proved boosts brain power. Research also indicates that high school art programs engage students and keep in school those at-risk of dropping out.
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1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
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A “little” visual arts education is simply not adequate and would
be considered unacceptable in any other core academic area. Teaching students to be
creative is a deliberate process, much like teaching literacy or mathematics, and is
certainly just as important. The skills learned through participation in the visual arts
help to equip our nation’s youth for the challenges they will face in shaping the future.
The visual arts are essential to a high-quality and balanced education.
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“There are changes facing the world for which there is no precedent. We
are currently experiencing a creativity crisis. Creativity is not a whimsy.
Creativity is not a set of luxuries. Creativity is not an abstraction. It is
actually a fundamental set of skills and competencies. To be creative, you
have to be doing something. This is a very practical thing. It is the process
of having original ideas that have value.”
-Sir Ken Robinson, author, educator, creativity advocate
Art Education Facilitates 21st Century Learning Skills:
-observation, reasoning, questioning, communication
-critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration
-creativity & inovation
-information & media literacy
-flexibility & adaptability
-initiative, self-direction, and perseverance
-productivity & accountability
-social & cross-cultural skills
