Philosophy and Objective of Art Education Children are natural artists.

From infancy, they delight in the

PHILOSOPHY OF ART EDUCATION
1.Educators have a responsibility to foster aesthetic creativity as a
counter- balance for dehumanizing forces.
2.Art is a human need.
3.Art expression is also a pleasing and natural communication for
children.
4.Experience with an expanding range of art media will enhance
the child's personal expression and creativity.
5.Growth - art ability comes through continuous use and training.
6.The child is directed toward a healthy leisure time pursuit when
his artistic perception and skill are cultivated.
7.Children become more actively concerned with the beauty and
harmony of the environment when their esthetic sensitivities are
nurtured.
Values of Art Education
SCHOOL, PREPARATION OF TEACHERS SCHOOL
Art is more than creative expression, which has been the
dominant theme of art education for much of the twentieth
century. Expression is important, but researchers are also finding
connections between learning in the visual arts and the
acquisition of knowledge and skills in other areas.
According to a 1993 Arts Education Partnership Working Group
study, the benefits of a strong art program include intensified
student motivation to learn, better school attendance, increased
graduation rates, improved multicultural understanding, and the
development of higher-order thinking skills, creativity, and
problem-solving abilities.
Curriculum Development
Art education has its roots in drawing, which, with reading,
writing,singing, and playing an instrument comprised the basic
elementary school curriculum in the seventeenth century.
Drawing continued to be a basic component of the core
curriculum throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
when educators saw drawing as important in teaching handwork,
nature study, geography, and other subjects.
interplay of light and shadow, shape and color. Objects dangling
from a mobile and the elemental shapes of balls and blocks
fascinate them. As children develop, they connect the visual and
the tactile: playing in spilled cereal, sculpting sand on a beach,
finger painting, and scribbling with crayons. They create shadows
in patches of sunlight and lay out sticks to form patterns.
Values of Art Education
Arts education not only inspires and motivates students to enjoy
learning. It also supports the creative and critical thinking skills
that are so highly valued in today's economy. Yet too often, arts
programs in schools are peripheral to academic core subjects and
fall victim to policy demands and shrinking budgets.
Teaching models that integrate the arts with core academic
subjects help close the achievement gap. The presence of a strong
arts program is often the very thing needed to help students
achieve at higher levels of academic performance. As school
districts increasingly look to cut costs, supplemental programming
is sometimes the only arts education available to students.
Here are the top ten ways that the arts help kids learn and
develop important characteristics they will need as adults:
Creativity
Improved Academic Performance
Motor Skills
Confidence
Visual Learning
Decision Making
Perseverance
Focus
Collaboration
Accountability
METHODS OF TEACHING ART

In the twentieth century, with the advent of modernism,art

education in the United States edged away from a utilitarian
philosophy to one of creative expression, or art-making for
personal development. Art continued to be valued, although less
often as a core subject, during the early decades of the century
and then declined in importance with the advent of World War II.

Elementary and Middle Schools