The Importance of the Arts in the Classroom.

 

It is important that the arts be recognised and nurtured in their own right in today's classrooms, and not practiced in a piecemeal way or purely as an adjunct to other subjects, although they can be useful in reinforcing and extending concepts from other curriculum areas.

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In participating in the five art forms, learners are encouraged to be creative and to develop important skills such as the use of imagination, flexible thinking, collaboration with peers, acceptance of/working around mistakes, problem solving, being innovative, thinking critically and producing original ideas.

 

We have no idea what is going to happen in terms of the future, and as it is education that is meant to take us into the future (Robinson, K. 2006, 17:00), the education that we provide must equip learners for that future.  

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The skills learners can acquire through authentic arts experiences, are those that will equip them for the future that they are facing.

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Authentic arts learning also invites an aesthetic awareness that cannot be replicated.  The opportunity to touch and feel, hear, move their bodies, look at colours/sculpture or a movement piece, or play/appreciate a musical score awakens the senses and can evoke an emotional response. 

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It can also be very inclusive of learners who may struggle with other types of learning, as here they may have the opportunity to excel in an area less rigid in terms of right and wrong.

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art has the role in education

of helping children

become like themselves

instead of more like

everyone else.

                                                 Sydney Gurewitz Clemens