The Importance Of Arts Education

“After a certain high level of technical skill achieved, science and arts tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientist are artist as well” (Albert Einstein). In this advanced modern tech-world mostly people are dependent on science and technology, but arts also play an important role in education. Art creates balanced thinking and better imagination which helps humans to be successful in their career. Yo-Yo Ma intensely informs about important role of arts in modern education society throughout his essay Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and education. Ma illustrates that arts should be also part of education, because it improve students to filter their imagination through disciplined knowledge. Liberal arts should be equal to science and technology because it creates new idea, and in this modern world people should think critical than divergent in their lives. Empathy teaches students to understand and simplify the complicated life. Collaboration include discussion amongst people or group to make things effortless. Moreover liberal arts itself is beauty such as performing arts, it values the beauty of imagination in modern society by art and sculpture.

Everywhere you look you see art. It is everywhere in our life today and has become an important part of our daily life. Arts education helps students develop creativity, visual learning, self-confidence, decision making, improved academic performance, and self-motivation. All are necessary to be successful in life. “Art education isn’t something we add on after we’ve achieved other priorities, like raising test scores and getting kids into college,” said the First Lady Michelle Obama. Art education is important for future students. It allows students to learn about themselves, their culture, their community and the world around them. Creativity and Imagination will be encouraged through the development of an artistic mind. Art uses science, math, and creativity. Art uses math because it involves shapes and angles and when people make an art project with geometric shapes they use math to find what is this angle worth? Science needs art because art helps people to understand and see what they are learning in science classes. Scientists always use and draw models that include art.

It can improve test scores and educational ability in many different ways. Participation in the arts program shows higher levels of confidence in academics than those who don't have instruction in this area. A study was done in 2004 addressing Psychological Science it was discovered that there is an increase in children's IQ's when they were given instruction in arts and music. In the article The Arts are a Vital Part of Education, it states, students who take fine arts classes are 4 times more likely to receive more recognition for academic achievement." Students who take fine arts classes also tend to have more skill in learning and developing languages. Communication is extremely important in a student's life, therefore having the fine arts program to increase speaking skill is beneficial to the student. Performing arts not only allows children to not only listen to music but to play music which enhances their verbal capacities and

"Studies show that students in the arts outperformed their non-arts peers on the SAT by 96 points, while a child who has continued access to arts education has a 74 percent higher chance of planning to attend college” (Urist 9). The arts teach several lessons to children and they provide an equal opportunity for everyone. The arts also provide a different form of discipline and insight into the real world. While others may say that sports make kids strive for good grades, the arts support children in a different way. Others may also say funding should go towards core subjects, but what they don’t know is that the humanities use the core subjects during classes. Even though fine arts are not exciting for everyone, they should receive more funding in schools because fine arts keep kids out of trouble, provide a way to express oneself and help teenagers make life decisions.

“The arts are an essential element of education, just like reading writing, and arithmetic…music dance, painting, and theatre are all keys that unlock profound human understanding and accomplishment” (William Bennett, Former US Secretary of Education).

Jane Alexander, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), once said, “Many children are missing out on something which gives their education context, gives their lives depth and meaning, and prepares them to be the future workforce.” This “something” that she spoke of is music and art education. Unfortunately, she is entirely correct. We are currently seeing in our country a dramatic cut in arts education curriculum in our public schools due to the limited amount of both time and funding. In many cases budget cutbacks mean arts education cutbacks. This limited amount of resources often forces administrators to place a value on the various subject areas. There is always a

Some schools in the United States offer a variety of arts programs, while other schools may have mediocre to non-existent arts programs. Students in their early years of schooling from elementary to high school depending on whether he or she has an arts education can affect them in the long run. Art programs since the 1980s have integrated into public education, however the No Child Left Behind act has since put the arts in the decline.

“People are forgetting that math is taught when a child is playing an instrument. English is taught when a child is reading or writing a script. Critical thinking is taught when a child is analyzing art” (Sabrina Holcomb). There is a significant correlation between participating in the arts, and success in school. Multiple studies have shown that there is a strong correlation between playing an instrument, and an increase in scores in mathematical subject. In these studies, it was also noted that students who were more creative were better problem solvers than students who were not as creative. All of these characteristics are sought after in the work force, meaning that the arts not only help during the school years, but in work and business as well (Ron Whitehorne). Also, it is important to note that “Low-income students who had arts-rich experiences in high schools were more than three times as likely to earn a B.A. as low-income students without those experiences. And the new study from the National Endowment reports that low-income high school students who earned little or no arts credits were five times more likely not to graduate from high school than low-income students who earned many arts credits” (Tyleah Hawkins). The arts have always been used as a form of expression and inspiration for people across the world, the arts have also been shown to improve high-risk student's outlook on their schooling. Research has shown that the arts help improve standardized test scores like the ACT or SAT (Tyleah Hawkins).People who support the arts believe that quality art education can help engage at-risk students in ways that other subjects such as math, science, or reading cannot. This is why it is believed that the arts are a key tool in the prevention of high-school dropout. There are many studies that point to a lower dropout rate for students who participate in

The arts education has always had a secondary place in Kindergarten to 12th grade learning, but children need to learn about the arts. All students should have the opportunity to experience a well-rounded education. An education that pushes beyond the normal subjects of mathematics, writing, reading, sciences and include the arts as an essential element. Arts education has been shown to improve student performance. Certain forms of artistic practice have been linked to improvement of cognitive capacities thought to be important for academics, for example, research suggests that music training can improve spatiotemporal reasoning, and this may help with certain forms of mathematics learning (Rinne, Gregory, Yarmolinskaya, and Hardiman (2011). Music training can change brain circuitry and can improve general cognition in at least some circumstances. While diligence training in one cognitive area can transfer to improvements in other cognitive skills. Therefore, the arts can play a critical role in improving schools and educational outcomes for all students.

Many sources such as the famous “The Atlantic Magazine” confirm that America spends billions of dollars on its Public School System and yet it is very far from being at the top globally. In order to improve the final product of all that money spent America needs to have more appreciation for arts education, make testing harder and also adapt students to become less technology dependent.

Art is all around us. It is a large part of our everyday lives. It makes our lives infinitely rich. It gives us a way to be creative and expressive. Upitis (2011, p. 2) quotes Dewey as saying in 1906/1977 that ‘to feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning: to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions – that is art’. Education in the arts refers to education in the disciplines of dance, music, drama and visual arts. Froebel (1826) believed that it was very important for young children to be involved in art and to enjoy the art of others as it encouraged each child’s ‘full and all-sided development’. However, this view was not shared by all. Swanwick (1988) cites Herbert Spencer as putting forward the view in 1911 that the arts were only meant for leisure and nothing else was achieved through them. Thus, in this paper, I intend to explore the values and aims of arts education suitable for young children. I

As our education budget continues to diminish, our art programs have received the brunt of the cutbacks. In such schools, the arts exist in unappreciative, and even hostile environments. We should be fighting to keep art programs in the education system because they have been an essential part of American culture, they illuminate truths perceptually and more immediate than the spoken word, and they offer an indispensable educational dimension to our students.

When I first started my art class I could not find a reason to get excited about it and I was not very confident about my art skills, so I wasn’t sure what I would get out of the class. As the class progressed I realized it wasn’t all about drawing and creating art project but also about the importance of the History of Art being taught in the classroom no matter what cultural or economic backgrounds the students come from. When one refers to Art education they are referring to education in the disciplines of music, dance, theater, and visual arts. Visual art was the arts our class focused on which refers to drawing, painting, sculptures, printmaking, crafts, photography, and filmmaking to name a few. Art can be very beneficial to all students from K-12th rather they are in a regular education class or a special education classroom. The good thing about art is it allows students to create things at their own developmental stage. It is critical for every student to be exposed to the benefits of integrating art into the academic curriculum. The teacher can add art to a science lesson and it would bring learning about blood cells to a different level. Instead of just reading about what a cell is they can draw it, or color code it by the different parts of the cell giving them a more in-depth understanding to how the different parts of the cell work. There is a lot of learning that takes place in the classroom but we must include the art so that all children will have the

Though art is mostly viewed as a hobby, it benefits children academically. One way art helps academic performance is by strengthening students’ brains. The principal of Lyons Elementary School explained the Opening Minds through Art program (OMA) helped teach children concepts through art that would later help them learn more in different subjects (Smith). Art can improve students’ understanding of learning concepts, which will help them in different subjects in the future. artistic activities engage senses and make neural connections in the brain. The more neural pathways created and the stronger the become, the easier it becomes for the brain to take in new information. With a stronger brain and mental capacity, students’ performance in school with improve. Academically, art is beneficial

Arts education exercises your child’s senses in a way that strengthens his or her cognitive, emotional, social and sensory-motor skills. Being active in the visual art also improves student learning because it enriches the mind, hones social abilities, enhances problem solving skills and improves memory and concentration.