This document discusses the importance of arts education. It notes that the arts teach about history through literature, visual arts, music, dance, and drama. To be well-educated, students must learn to appreciate and actively participate in the creative arts. Some studies show that strong art programs improve performance in other academic areas by exercising different parts of the brain. Historically, art was taught through apprenticeships, and current approaches include teaching drawing, imagination, art history, criticism, and focusing on student interests.
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This document discusses the importance of arts education. It notes that the arts teach about history through literature, visual arts, music, dance, and drama. To be well-educated, students must learn to appreciate and actively participate in the creative arts. Some studies show that strong art programs improve performance in other academic areas by exercising different parts of the brain. Historically, art was taught through apprenticeships, and current approaches include teaching drawing, imagination, art history, criticism, and focusing on student interests.
This document discusses the importance of arts education. It notes that the arts teach about history through literature, visual arts, music, dance, and drama. To be well-educated, students must learn to appreciate and actively participate in the creative arts. Some studies show that strong art programs improve performance in other academic areas by exercising different parts of the brain. Historically, art was taught through apprenticeships, and current approaches include teaching drawing, imagination, art history, criticism, and focusing on student interests.
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Arts in Education
Art education for Education students
the arts teach us much about every historical period through its literature, visual arts, music, dance, and drama
to be truly well educated one must not only
learn to appreciate the arts, but must have rich opportunities to actively participate in creative work The arts are languages that most people speak, cutting through individual differences in culture, educational background, and ability.
They can bring every subject to life and
turn abstractions into concrete reality. Some studies show that strong art education programs have demonstrated increased student performance in other academic areas, due to art activities' exercising their brains' right hemispheres and delateralizing their thinking Arts education
Art education is the area of learning that
is based upon the visual, tangible arts— drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewellery, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings. Latest trends also include photography, video, film, design, computer art, etc. Historically art was taught in Europe via the atelier method system where artists' took on apprentices who learned their trade
apprenticeship in which the student learns
from a professional artist while assisting the artist with their work Approaches to art education
core discipline of Western art education is the
practice of drawing, a model which has existed since the Renaissance
This is an empirical activity which involves
seeing, interpreting and discovering appropriate marks to reproduce an observed phenomena.
other art activities involve imaginative
interpretation Models: 1.A sixfold model divided into "Creative- Productive, Cultural-Historical and Critical- Responsive” components in Canada
2. Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE)
came to favor in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, and it focused on specific skills including techniques, art criticism and art history. 3. shifted away from DBAE to visual culture and diversity model
4. Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) is a
theory that began in the 1970s in the United States. TAB suggests that students should be the artists and so guided on their own individual artistic interests through technique lessons and critiques, while being exposed to art history as it relates to their own work. 5. In the UK the art curriculum is prescribed by the government's National Curriculum except in public or fee paying schools. Visualize your expectations and experiences during the first week of classes SY 2010-2011 at Cavite State University-Imus Campus, by sketching or painting. SOURCE: http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/dickins on_why_arts.htm