CHAPTER 7

Creative &
Artistic Literacy
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 Objectives:
At the end of this chapter, you re expected to:
• Characterize artistic literacy.
• Discuss the value of Arts to education
• Identify approaches to developing/designing curriculum
that cultivatesthe arts and creativity among learners;
• Formulate a personal definition of creativity .
 What is
Artistic Literacy?
• The knowledge and understanding required to
participate authentically in the arts (National
Coalition for Core Arts Standards: A
Conceptual Framework for Arts Learning,
2014)
• Requires to engage in artistic creation
processes directly through the use of materials
(e.g. charcoal or paint or clay, musical
instruments or scores) and in specific grades
(eg, concert halls, stages, dance rehearsal
spaces, arts studios, and computer labs).
Benefits of Learning Arts

• It create environments and conditions that result in

improved academic, social, and, behavioral outcomes for
students.

• It provides students with an outlet for powerful creative

expression, communication, aesthetically rich
understanding, and connection to the world around
them.
 The flexibility of the forms comprising the arts positions students to
embody a range of literate practices to:

• use their minds in verbal and nonverbal

ways
• communicate complex ideas in a variety of
forms understand words, sounds, or images
• imagine new possibilities
• persevere to reach goals and make them
happen.
"Being able to critically read,
write, and speak about art should
not be the sole constituting
factors for what counts as literacy
in the Arts (Shenfield, 2015)
 EIGHT BENEFITS OR LESSONS THAT WE CAN
LEARN FROM ARTS
(Elliot Eisner)

4. Surprise is not to be seen as an

1. Form and content cannot be intruder in the process of inquiry, but as
separated. a part of the rewards one reaps when
working artistically.

2. Everything interacts.

5. Slowing down perception is the most

promising way to see what is actually
3. Nuance matters.
there.
 EIGHT BENEFITS OR LESSONS THAT WE CAN
LEARN FROM ARTS
(Elliot Eisner)

6. The limits of language are not the

limits of cognition.
7. Somatic experience is one of the most
important indicators that someone has gotten it
right.
8. Open-ended tasks permit the
exercise of imagination, and an
exercise of the imagination is one of
the most important of human
aptitudes.
CHARACTERIZING
ARTISTICALLY
LITERATE
INDIVIDUALS
Literature on art education and art standards in education cited the following as
common traits of artistically literature individuals:

• use a variety of artistic media, symbols, and metaphors to

communicate their own ideas and respond to the artistic
communications of others

• cultivate culture, history, and other connections through

diverse forms and genres of artwork.

• develop creative personal realization in at least one art

form in which they continue active involvement as an
adult
Literature on art education and art standards in education
cited the following as common traits of artistically
literature individuals:

• find joy, inspiration, peace,

intellectual stimulation, and • seek artistic experiences and
meaning when they participate support the arts in their
in the arts communities.
 ISSUES IN
TEACHING
CREATIVITY
In his TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson (2013) stressed paradigms in education system
that hamper the development of creative capacity among learners. These are the
ff:

• Most useful subjects such as Mathematics and

languages for work are at the top while arts are at
the bottom.

• Academic ability has come to dominate our

view of intelligence.

• Seek artistic experiences and support the arts

in their communities.
• educate the well-being of learners and shift from the
conventional learnings toward academic ability alone.
• give equal weight to the arts, the humanities, and to physical
education.
• facilitate learning and work toward stimulating curiosity
among learners.
• awaken and develop pwers of creativity amon learners view
intelligence as diverse, dynamic, and distinct, contrary to
common belief that it should be academic ability-geared.
Thank
You!!