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- Title: An Arts-Integrated Approach for Elementary Level Students (Issues in Education)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 184 KB
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The arts incorporate social, philosophical psychological and historical aspects of life, including one's own inspiration, spirit, thought, intellect, and feelings. Care and concern are taken throughout the artistic process, which involves emotional, perceptual, and cognitive factors, to provide satisfaction and pleasure--an aesthetic response. The arts are not separated from life. Rather, they are an integral part of life, uniting the people of a culture. This philosophical approach links the arts to all areas of learning by placing social and cultural importance on the behavior of arts making (Dissanayake, 1992). A focus on school reform within the field of elementary education has brought an arts-integrated approach to teaching and learning to the forefront. This is not a new approach, as integrating what many call "hands-on activities" in the classroom is quite common. The difference lies in the quality and depth of the approach to teaching and learning, as it has expanded beyond art-making activities to include art history knowledge, art criticism and analysis, and the process of aesthetics in the classroom (Marshall, 2005). Another difference in this new wave of school reform as it addresses the arts in education, is the focus on the integrity of the arts form. This valuing of the arts as an important part of a child's learning is a major difference from past integration efforts and lies at the heart of the rationale here (Horowitz, 2005).