Aesthetic

Domain
Rose Ann C. De Vera
Aesthetics
Ability to recognize and appreciate
natural beuty in art, movement,
music, and life.beauty
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Visual Arts Performing Arts
Acting, dancing, singing,
Painting, sculpture,
and playing musical
drawing, etc.

4 Types of intruments.

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Art Usable Arts Literary Arts
Weaving, pottery, Writing stories, pomes,
knitting, etc. plays, novels, etc.

Aesthetic activities can feature any of these types of arts

as well as an appreciation of the beauty of nature
 Learning Experiences in the Aesthetic Domain

Discovery
activities
Explore natural Exposure Activities
Opportunities for
beauty in nature with
5 senses
Responsive students to experience
different forms of
Aesthetic visual art, music,
dance, and
Evaluation Experences performance art.
Activities
Students are asked to judge
and analyze art, and determine
themes; students learn that
people have artistic
preferences.
Learning Experiences in the Aesthetic Domain

Productive
Aesthetic
Experences

Teacher provides artistic tools and materials to encourage student’s creativity

Benefits of Aesthetic Learning
• Integrating arts curriculum that incorporates visual,
performance, and musical art has benefited at-risk
students’ cognitive development.
• Music education helps students with word decoding and
phonological skills (knowledge of sounds and spelling
patterns)
• Music might also support students’ understanding of
foreign languages.
• Dance supports students’ visual-spatial skills and physical
coordination.
• Acting supports students’ verbal language skills
Benefits of Aesthetic Learning
• Working together in artistic activities develops class unity
and reinforces collaboration
• Aesthetic activities also encourage students’ creativity and
unique thought
• Teaching with the arts also develops students’ patientce,
motor/physical coordination, persistence
• Students, especially students with kinesthetic, visual,
and/or musical learning styles, experience success
• Aesthetic activities feature hands-on, real-world activities
that often increase student engagement and motivation:
useful in incorporating aesthetic activities in core content
(math, science, reading, writing, and social studies)
instruction
Benefits of Aesthetic Learning
• Integrating aesthetic activities is core-content instruction
leads to students developing meaningful connections with
content:
• For example, students recognizing rhythms and patterns in
music can apply to identify patterns in math
• Analyzing art, music, or drama can support students’ ability
to analyze literature
• Students develop a conceptualization of the whole rather
than just individual parts- students are more likely to realize
the big picture of concepts.
 Cognitive Benefits of Aesthetic Learning

Aesthetic learning promotes

criical thinking (recongnizing
relationships and patterns
[analysis]), applying patterns Teaches students how to
or relationships to new recognize symbols that stand
situations, eveluating the for other ideas or feelings
relative importance of pieces (students develop symbolic
of art, students’s ability to understanding)
produce their own
representations of their
learningcritical
 Cognitive Benefits of Aesthetic Learning

Students develop creativity

and problem-solving abilities

Students consider groupings,

patterns, relative sizes,
relationship between objects
 Cognitive Benefits of Aesthetic Learning

Teaching students' vocabulary

related to art and practicing
drama develops students'
overall vocabulary.
Performing drama that
involves reading scripts can
improve reading fluency
 Cognitive Benefits of Aesthetic Learning

Providing instruction on
diver's forms of art can
expose students to different Aesthetic learning can
cultures, languages, and promote metacognition (the
perspectives ability to reflect on one’s
thinking, organize ideas, and
plan future actions): teacher
can support this by asking
students guided questions to
reflect on why students chose
particular styles and actions.
 Cognitive Benefits of Aesthetic Learning

Providing instruction on divers

forms of art can expose Aesthetic learning can
students to different cultures, promote metacognition (the
languages, and perspectives ability to reflect on one’s
thinking, organize ideas, and
plan future actions): teacher
can support this by asking
students guided questions to
reflect on why students chose
particular styles and actions.
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
Birth-3yrs

Babies begin to appreciate natural beauty,

develop color peferences.

Visual Aesthetics
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
3-5 years old
- children begin to collect objects or items they
find beautiful.
- Toddlers begin to appreciate the movement of
crayons, markers, and paints on the paper.

Visual Aesthetics
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
3-5 years old
- Age 3: primarily random scribing
- Age 4 controlled scribing (names scribbles,
scribbles have particular meaning representing
world around the child

Visual Aesthetics
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
4-7 years old

- children develop set of symbols to represent

familiar concepts
- recognize that symbols can be used to
communicate meaning to others
Visual Aesthetics
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
4-7 years old

- appreciate using various media forms (pencil,

paints, crayons etc.
- connects emotion to artwork (color relates to
emotion)
Visual Aesthetics
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
4-7 years old

- develop a “person”symbol

Visual Aesthetics
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
6-8 years old

- Start to create more complex drawings with

various views and details
- focus on producing a desirable artistic product.
Visual Aesthetics
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
6-8 years old

- develop organized spatial relationships

- students repute visual symbols (schemata) that
the student finds satisfactory
Visual Aesthetics
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
Birth-3yrs

- Babies begin to appreciate singing and music

- Appreciate songs that they have hears
repeatedly

Musical Development
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
Birth-3yrs

- begin to sing or hum familiar songs; eventually

are able to repeat melodies and sing entire
songs
- Start to bang on objects to make noise
Musical Development
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
3-5yrs

- children start to recognize pitch (when sound

goes up and down)
- interest in melody
Musical Development
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
3-5yrs

- can only focus on one musical dimension at a

time (rhythm, tempo, pitch etc.)
- can begin to sing entire rhythm patterns
Musical Development
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
3-5yrs

- can play simple instruments and begin to hold a

steady beat

Musical Development
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
5-6yrs

- Children are able to determine sound contrast

(high-low, loud-sof)
Can identify pairs of musical chords that are the
same or different
Musical Development
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
5-6yrs

- develop a steady, accurate beat, melody, and

rhythm when singing (repeating after modeling)
- can start to play more formal musical
instruments.
Musical Development
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
6-8yrs

- can sing complex, varied songs that require

significant memory and sequencing skills
- focus on playing formal musical instruments the
“correct way”
Musical Development
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
6-8yrs

- Students may lose some creativity by focusing

on copying given examples from the teacher or
family

Musical Development
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
Birth -3yrs
Babies enjoy interacting with adults,
impersonating emotions of adults
Begin to complete rhythmic turn-taking (peek-a-
boo)

Dramatic Behaviours
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
Birth - 3yrs
Age 1 – can use gestures to imitate actions or
emotions (sleeping gestures)
Age 2 can imitate and follow align with finger
plays like “ensy weensy, spider)

Dramatic Behaviours
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
3-5yrs

Can engage in more elaborate imitation and

enactment
Enact situations or roles that students have
experienced
Dramatic Behaviors
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
3-5yrs

Spend an increased amount of time with pretend

and imaginative play

Dramatic Behaviors
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
6-8yrs
Students still are interested in fantasy and
imagination, but become more and more focused
on non-fiction representations of the real world

Dramatic Behaviors
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
6-8yrs

After learning how to read and write, students

begin to write and perform their own plays if
encourage by adults

Dramatic Behaviors
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
6-8yrs

Children focus on creating more elaborate props

that are more “life-like”

Dramatic Behaviors
Stages of children’s development in
Aesthetic Domain
6-8yrs

Students may participate in formal types of

drama (theaters, plays, musical)

Dramatic Behaviors